The farthest shot from a sniper rifle svd. The American broke the world record for the range of a sniper shot. Rifle from the garage

Russian sniper Andrey Ryabinsky, in a team with spotters Yuri Sinichkin, Evgeny Titov and Vladimir Grebenyuk, set a world distance record aimed shooting from sniper rifle. According to a blog entry by the Russian weapons company Lobaev Arms, the range of an accurate shot was 4210 meters.

For accurate shooting, the SVLK-14S "Twilight" rifle was used, specially designed for the maximum possible range of an accurate shot. According to Ryabinsky, the bullet covered a distance of 4210 meters in 13 seconds. For aimed shooting at such a distance, specialists took into account many factors, including wind, Atmosphere pressure, derivation, temperature and rotation of the Earth.

Derivation is the deflection of a spinning bullet after a shot. The deviation occurs perpendicular to the plane of the oncoming air flow. The displacement of the bullet coincides with the direction of cutting the barrel of the weapon from which it was fired. For the SVD sniper rifle, the derivation is up to 60 centimeters when firing at a target at a distance of one kilometer.

Many modern sights for small arms constructively take into account derivation. In particular, PSO-1 for SVD is specially mounted so that after the shot the bullet goes a little to the left. In artillery, this phenomenon is either included in the firing tables, or is also taken into account constructively.

The SVLK-14S sniper rifle is available in three calibers: .408 Chey Tac (10.36 x 77 mm), .338 Lapua Magnum (8.6 x 70 mm) and .300 Winchester Magnum (7.62 x 67 mm). For shooting at a record distance, weapons of .408 caliber were used. Shooting was carried out at a target one meter wide and one meter high.

The length of the rifle is 1430 millimeters with a barrel length of 900 millimeters. The rifle is equipped with a longitudinally sliding bolt. The mass of SVLK-14S is 9.6 kilograms. The accuracy of firing from a rifle is 0.3 minutes of arc.

The previous world record for accurate shot range was set with the American M300 sniper rifle. It was 4157 meters. Meanwhile, in June 2017, a Canadian sniper set the record for a confirmed high-scoring accurate shot fired in combat. From a TAC-50 rifle of 12.7 mm caliber, a Canadian in Iraq killed a militant at a distance of 3540 meters.

Correction: Initially, the news claimed that the SVLK-14S sniper rifle was equipped with a five-round magazine. In fact, another rifle of this family, the SVLK-14M, is equipped with such a magazine. SVLK-14S was deliberately left single-shot by the developers to maintain maximum accuracy and range of fire. We apologize to our readers.

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To hit the target from a distance of 3.5 kilometers with direct fire - difficult task for almost any military equipment. When it comes to civilian weapons, it is completely unattainable. More precisely, it was unattainable up to this point. The Texas guys from the Hill Country Rifle company, which manufactures and refines rifles, did the hitherto impossible - they hit the target from a distance of 3475 meters (3800 yards).

Thefirearmblog reports that the previous unofficial record was 3,550 yards (3,246 meters). The author of the new achievement is Jim Spinella, who fired a modified Long Range Extreme 375 Cheytac rifle (base model cost $6995) and used CHEYTAC .375/350 GR cartridges.

The sniper took 19 rounds to shoot. After making all the adjustments, the accuracy of hits was 90% on a 36-inch target (91.5 cm). Shooting took place far from being in "greenhouse conditions" - during the record setting, the wind was blowing at a speed of 4 m / s with gusts of up to 7.5 m / s.

To understand the severity of the moment, here are a few facts:

• at the peak of the parabola, the bullet was 100 meters above the aiming point;
• from the moment of the shot to the hit, the bullet flew for more than 8.5 seconds;
• due to air vibrations, the target is almost invisible at such a distance, even in an optical sight.

The guys are not going to stop at the achieved result, planning to conquer the bar of 4000 yards (about 3658 meters) this fall. Until now, the achievements of snipers in the range of accurate shooting have not been officially recorded, but Spinella and his comrades decided that it was time to put an end to this.

In combat conditions, the farthest confirmed sniper shot was made from a distance of 2475 meters. In November 2009, Corporal british army Craig Harrison participated in the Joint Forces Operation in Afghanistan. During the battle in the Musa-Kala area, using the L115A3 Long Range Rifle rifle, from a distance of 2475 meters, he managed to destroy two Taliban machine gunners with two shots, and with the third - to disable the machine gun itself. In an interview with the BBC television, Harrison said that it took him 9 sighting shots to then consecutively "lay" three bullets exactly on the targets.

Corporal Craig Harrison - the author of the "combat" sniper range record

Harrison also mentioned that on that day in the Musa Qala area weather were ideal for shooting at long distances: clear visibility and complete calm. The bullets fired by Harrison from the L115A3 Long Range Rifle sniper rifle reached their target after about 6 seconds of flight.

It is noteworthy that the rifle used by Jim Spinella and the type of cartridge are legal on the civilian market and are available for purchase as hunting weapon in many countries of the world. Thus, anyone can purchase a rifle if they have permission to purchase rifled weapons and the required amount of money.

The five longest shots of military snipers. In this rating, only long-range shots made by military snipers during armed conflicts are taken. A record shot should be unique for its era and glorify the shooter. Record set must hold on enough for a long time, or the shot fired must break a record unsurpassed for decades.
"FROM THIS DISTANCE THEY WON'T EVEN HIT THE ELEPHANT"

The names of the first shooters, who became famous for the longest shots, remained in history solely thanks to their victims - high-ranking military leaders. First attested over long shot refers to the era of the Napoleonic Wars - the French general, Baron Auguste de Colbert, became his victim. In 1809, he was killed by a rifleman of the 95th British Rifle Division, a certain Thomas Plunkett - he is in fifth position. It is believed that Plunkett killed Colbert from an incredible 600 meters for that time. And to prove that the hit was not accidental, he also shot down the general's adjutant with another shot - however, this is more of a legend. There is no exact data on what kind of weapon the British shooter used. Some sources say that Plunkett fired from a standard 1722 smoothbore musket, the famous Brown Bess. But it is more likely that the long-range shot was fired from a rifled fitting, which by that time had appeared in the British army. By the way, the British snipers of the XIX century - the military, hunters, athletes - often used a rather unusual technique - they shot lying on their backs, resting the barrel on the shin of a bent leg. It is believed that it was from this position that Plunkett shot de Colbert.

“From such a distance, they won’t even hit an elephant,” - such were last words American General John Sedgwick - a second later he fell from a sniper's bullet. This is the American Civil War of 1861-1865. At the Battle of Spotsylvane, Sedgwick, who fought on the side of the United States, controlled artillery fire. The Confederate riflemen, seeing the enemy commander, began to hunt for him, the staff officers lay down, and invited their commander to go into cover. The positions of the opponents were separated by a distance of about one kilometer. Sedgwick, considering this distance safe, began to shame his subordinates for timidity, but did not have time to finish - a bullet from an unknown sergeant Grace hit him in the head. This is perhaps the farthest shot of the 19th century, although it cannot be said whether it was an accident or not. This is the fourth position in the ranking. Descriptions of long-range shots - at a distance of half a kilometer - are also found in the chronicles of the War of Independence and civil war in USA. There were many among the North American militias good hunters, and as weapons they used long-barreled large-caliber hunting rifles and fittings.

CARLOS "WHITE PEAT"

The first half of the 20th century did not bring new deadly records, at least those that would become the property of history and glorify the shooter. During the First and Second World Wars, the skill of snipers was determined not by the ability to make an ultra-long shot, but by the number of enemies killed. It is known that one of the most productive snipers of all time - the Finn Simo Häyhä (he accounted for up to 705 enemy soldiers killed) - preferred to shoot from a distance of no more than 400 meters.

For new range records, a weapon was needed that significantly exceeded the characteristics of regular sniper rifles. Such a weapon was the Browning M2 machine gun of 12.7x99 mm caliber (50 BMG), developed in the early 30s of the last century. During the Korean War american soldiers they began to use it as a sniper rifle - the machine gun was equipped with an optical sight and could conduct a single fire. With its help, a participant in the Vietnam War, American Sergeant Carlos Hathcock II set a distance record that lasted for 35 years. In February 1967, the American destroyed the enemy from a distance of 2286 meters - the third position. From his sniper M2, Hathcock was guaranteed to hit a growth target with single shots from a distance of 2000 yards (a little more than 1800 meters), that is, approximately twice as much as compared to the standard army "high-precision" M24 ​​in calibers 308 Win (7.62x51 millimeters) and 300 Win Mag (7.62x67 millimeters). The Vietnamese nicknamed Hathcock the "White Feather" - supposedly, despite the requirements of disguise, he always attached a feather to his hat. Some sources claim that the command North Vietnam placed a $30,000 bounty on the sniper's head. It is noteworthy that Hathcock received his highest award - the Silver Star - not for sniping, but for rescuing his comrades from a burning armored personnel carrier. Inspired by the success of Hathcock, military department The United States created a special commission that studied the possibility of creating a heavy sniper rifle based on the Browning.

RIFLE FROM THE GARAGE

The Americans did not make rifles from a machine gun. But in 1982, the former police officer Ronnie Barrett (Ronnie G. Barrett) in the garage workshop designed a sniper rifle in caliber 12.7 millimeters - it later received the designation Barrett M82. The inventor offered his development to the monsters of the arms market, such as Winchester and FN, and after the latter's refusal, he set up his own small-scale production by registering Barrett Firearms. Barrett's first clients were hunters and civilian lovers of high-precision shooting, and at the very end of the 80s, a batch of 100 M82A1 rifles was purchased by Swedish troops, following the Swedes, the American military became interested in Barrett's rifle. Today, the word "Barrett" has actually become synonymous with a large-caliber precision rifle.

Another "high-precision" in the caliber of 12.7x99 millimeters began to be produced in the mid-80s by a small American company McMillan Bros. The rifle was named McMillan TAC-50 - today they are used special units USA and Canada. To the fullest of the dignity of a large-caliber precision weapons opened up in Iraq and Afghanistan. With the outbreak of hostilities in the Middle East, snipers of the Western coalition began to update range records almost every year. In 2002, in Afghanistan, Canadian Arron Perry (Arron Perry) with a McMillan TAC-50 rifle hit a Mujahideen from a distance of 2526 yards (slightly more than 2.3 thousand meters), thereby breaking Hathcock's long-term record. In the same year, his compatriot Rob Furlong (Rob Furlong) made a productive shot at 2657 yards (slightly more than 2.4 thousand meters). These two shots are in second position.

American sniper Brian Kremer (Brian Kremer) crept close to the shooters from Canada - in March 2004 in Iraq from a Barrett M82A1 rifle, he hit a target at a distance of 2300 meters. It is believed that during his two years of service in Iraq, Kremer fired two successful shots with a range of over 2100 meters.

In first place - unsurpassed to date, the record of Briton Craig Harrison (Craig Harrison). During an operation in Afghanistan in November 2009, at a range of 2470 meters, he destroyed two Taliban machine gunners and their machine gun. According to Craig himself, before three effective shots, he had to make nine more sighting shots.

Long-range shooting of the enemy is a kind of special army art. Modern snipers are divided into many subcategories, but it is the range of an aimed and deadly shot that is considered one of the important criteria for assessing the skill of a sniper.

A selection of the most notable shooters whose long-range shots made it into the pages of history.

In seventh place is the shot of the American participant in the Iraq War, Petty Officer Jim Gilliland, 1367 yards (1244 meters). Shot from a standard M24 rifle using standard 7.62x51mm NATO rounds in 2005. A very good result for a combined arms rifle of not the largest caliber.

Number six is ​​British Army Corporal Christopher Reynolds and his August 2009 accurate shot at 2026 yards (1844 meters). Rifle - Accuracy International L115A3. Cartridges - .338 Lapua Magnum LockBase B408. The hit target is a Taliban commander nicknamed "Mullah", who is responsible for a number of attacks on coalition forces in Afghanistan. If the sources do not lie, then the shot was so accurate, then the Mulla fell exactly into the arms of the militant following him, and if the bullet had enough penetrating power, Reynolds would have written down two heads at once.

Number five - Sergeant Carlos Hascock, shot at 2500 yards (2275 meters). Date - February 1967, the time of the Vietnamese conflict. The historic shot that made the sergeant a hero of his time was not fired from a sniper rifle, but from an M2 Browning machine gun. Cartridges - .50 BMG. Hascock is a legend today american army- he ranks fourth in the list of snipers who hit maximum amount goals. At one time, the Vietnamese had a $30,000 bounty on his head, and they gave Hascock the nickname "white feather" for his habit of wearing a feather in his hat, violating the accepted rules of sniper camouflage. However, this is not the only thing he was noted for - Hascock's second term of service in Vietnam ended ahead of schedule in September 1969, when the armored personnel carrier in which he was riding was blown up by a mine. Despite his own severe burns (more than 40% of his body), Hascock pulled seven of his comrades out of the burning armored personnel carrier.

Fourth place - American Sergeant Brian Kremer and his shot at 2515 yards (2288.6 meters) in March 2004. Weapon - Barrett M82A1. Cartridges - Raufoss NM140 MP. In two years in Iraq, Kremer fired two successful shots over 2,350 yards, confirming high level sergeant skills.

Third place went to the Canadian Corporal Arron Perry. Shot range - 2526 yards (2298.6 meters) in March 2002. Weapon - McMillan Tac-50. Cartridges - Hornady A-MAX .50 (.50 BMG).

Second place - a shot at 2657 yards (2417.8 meters) also goes to the Canadian: Corporal Rob Furlong, broke Arron's record, with exactly the same rifle and cartridges.

In first place is an unsurpassed (so far) record by Briton Craig Harrison. During the Afghan conflict in November 2009, he made his best double shot at a range of 2707 yards (2475 meters). The defeat of the target is documented - two Taliban machine gunners were killed in succession. This record makes Harrison the best sniper of all time.

Why are there no Russian snipers on the list? Firstly, we have never had such a cult of long-range shooting, and secondly, the army doctrine was different.

However, in a non-combat situation, Russian snipers set a world record by hitting a target at a distance of almost three and a half kilometers from the firing position.

At the same time, it is known that the work of our sniper professionals is classified, and not only the names are not known, but also the rifles with which these masters work. It is possible that the heir of Vasily Zaitsev lives somewhere in Russia, who somewhere and sometime, in one of the conflicts, hit the target and at a greater distance than any of the seven foreigners mentioned above.

The new sniper range record belongs to the team of Vladislav Lobaev, a Russian arms manufacturer whose precision-guided sniper rifles have been adopted by the FSB and the Russian FSO.

The record was set on September 28, 2017 at the training ground in Tula region in Russia. Successful shot fired Andrey Ryabinsky from a distance of 4,170 meters at a target measuring 1x2 meters, from a rifle SVLK-14S "Dusk" cartridge caliber .408 Cheytac.

To set a new record for shooting at ultra-long distances, Lobaev Arms specialists modified the rifle and refined the cartridge. This made it possible to disperse a bullet weighing 30 grams to initial speed at 1000 m/s.

As Vladislav Lobaev himself said, 4170 meters is a little more than the recent record of colleagues from North America- they had a shot at 4,157 meters. However, this is not the limit. In the coming days, Russian gunsmiths plan to install new record— at 4,200 meters!

Lobaev's team, in addition to the production of high-precision weapons, has already distinguished itself by earlier record shooting - in April 2015, they installed . After this event, disputes broke out on the Internet about whether live shooting at such distances makes sense. Part of the particularly knowledgeable "experts" claimed that the bullet allegedly loses all its destructive power and falls on the head like "pigeon droppings." Let's leave these statements on their conscience and on the conscience of the developers computer games where "experts" draw their knowledge from, and in order to find the truth, let's turn to reality.

This June, in the Iraqi city of Mosul, Canadian sniper from the division special purpose Joint Task Force 2, accurate shot killed one of the ISIS militants ( terrorist organization, banned in Russia, CIS countries and Europe) who attacked Iraqi army soldiers. The most remarkable thing about this story is that the shot was fired from a distance of just over 2 miles, namely - 3 540 meters!

Canadian sniper in Iraq
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The command of the special operations forces of Canada did not disclose the name of the sniper and the circumstances of the battle, saying that the fact of the shot and the elimination of the militant was confirmed by documentary satellite footage.

It is only known that the sniper used a rifle McMillan TAC-50 with ammunition .50 BMG (12.7x99mm), the sniper position at the time of the shot was in a high-rise building, the bullet's flight time was about 10 seconds. At the same time, the shot had a strong demoralizing effect on the terrorists and actually thwarted the offensive, representatives of the Canadian military department said.

The previous record of "combat" sniper shot was installed in 2009 in Afghanistan, in the Musa-Kala region. Then Corporal Craig Harrison, a special forces sniper from the UK, shot from McMillan TAC-50 eliminated 2 Taliban machine gunners from a distance 2475 meters.

Harrison said that on the day of the record shot, the weather was almost perfect and completely calm, and visibility was excellent. It took him 9 sighting shots to accurately hit the target with 3 shots. Bullets fired by a corporal from a sniper rifle reached their targets in 6 seconds.

There is more information about absolute record range of a shot from a sniper rifle - 3,850 meters, which was installed last year Jim Spinell from the American company Hill Country Rifle. But this is not a “combat” shot, but in terms of high-precision shooting in “peaceful” conditions, the world record now belongs to the team of Vladislav Lobaev.