New sniper record. A Russian sniper set a record for the range of aimed fire. 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 sniper SVD rifles 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.

Vasily Sychev

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 an initial speed of 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 are planning to set a new record - by 4,200 meters!

Lobaev's team except for production 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, with an accurate shot, destroyed 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 a “combat” sniper shot was set 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.

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, long shots who 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 - corporal british army Christopher Reynolds and his accurate shot in August 2009 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 above-mentioned foreigners.

This story began almost three years ago, when a Russian shooter and manufacturer of precision long-range rifles Vlad Lobaev saw a video on YouTube where peppy old men from Texas hit a target with a rifle at a distance of 3600 yards (3292 m). Vlad decided to accept the challenge and compete with the Americans. Fortunately, he had his own weapons factory Lobaev Arms at hand.

Alexander Grek

The Americans fired from a custom-made (custom) ultra-long-range rifle in a rare caliber .375 CheyTac. By that time, Lobaev's company had already mass-produced the SVLK-14 "Twilight" ultra-long-range rifle in an even rarer and more powerful caliber. 408 CheyTac, which allows you to sniper shooting at distances over 2 km. For the record, they took a special custom "Dusk" with a titanium chassis and firing pin, with a barrel length of 720 mm and a weight of more than 9 kg. In April 2015 on the field in Kaluga region(There are simply no multi-kilometer shooting ranges in Russia) Lobaev’s team, after sighting shots, hit a target at a distance of 3400 m with this rifle. The video with the record was posted on YouTube. The Americans reacted calmly: they say, okay, let's continue the absentee duel.

Record rifle SVLK-14 "Dusk"

Subsonic

Not only the Americans reacted: the French sniper from the Foreign Legion, after long training, hit the target at a distance of 3600 m, but, apart from an article in a small specialized magazine, there is no information about this record, no one uploaded videos. The Americans also overcame the mark, first 3600, and then 4000 yards (3657 m). Lobaev's company studied this video almost under a microscope: some parameters of the shot did not match, the flying time did not match with the initial speed and angle of the bar. Nothing has changed in ballistics, but a few hundred meters have increased. This does not happen, but since the competition was originally conceived as a competition of gentlemen, the Lobayevites decided to continue to shoot with the Americans honestly. And win by knockout - hit from four kilometers.

For shooters, ultra-long-range shooting is considered shooting at a distance where at the end of the trajectory the bullet goes at deep subsonic, because everything is clear with supersonic - there ballistics is considered easy, simple mathematical methods. And subsonic ballistics is considered more difficult, and, what is most unpleasant, some physical processes, which make it difficult to shoot at ultra-long distances. First, there is a restabilization effect. Line speed slows down at 1000 m, say, three times - from 900 m/s to 300 m/s. And the rotational speed of the bullet is only 5-10%. At subsonic, the speed is even lower, but the rotational speed is still the same. This leads to the fact that all the design and manufacturing defects of the bullet begin to come out, which greatly affects dispersion. In addition, at low speeds, errors in the assessment of wind and weather conditions become noticeable. The second factor is turbulence in the bottom part at deep subsonic. At speeds slightly less than 300 m / s, this is not critical, but at ranges of more than 2 km it greatly affects accuracy. There is only one way to deal with these phenomena - to develop a design of bullets with a different bottom design.

Classic problems for shooting at ultra-long distances, they require an increase in the mass of the bullet and more advanced aerodynamics. Lobaev set his first record with a standard D27 bullet, an analogue of the well-known Lost River in the West. These are elongated solid-machined bullets for long-range shooting, also called Ultra VLD. They were no longer suitable for new records. If you follow the path of increasing the mass of the bullet, you will need to change the entire cartridge - either increase the chamber or use a new progressively burning gunpowder, or even switch to a different caliber. Another caliber (Browning .50 or domestic 12.7 x 108 mm) is a transition to a different class and a completely different weapon with all the ensuing consequences: different barrels, bolts, receiver boxes, dimensions, weight and a significant increase in recoil, at which there is no longer any talk of enjoying shooting.

Lobaev decided not to retreat from old sleeve and caliber .408 CheyTac, do not change either the dimensions or the mass of the weapon. He managed to develop a heavier 30-gram D30 bullet, while remaining within the standard cartridge. This was also done because the cartridge is quite affordable and anyone can try to repeat the achievement. The design of the bullet was also modified: it began to resemble a long elongated spindle with two pointed ends, which made it possible to achieve an almost ideal ballistic coefficient of one. This required a redesign of the rifle, a faster rifling pitch to stabilize the longer, heavier bullet. If the classic rifling pitch in the 408 caliber is thirteen, then Lobaev decided to use ten on the record rifle. Although starting speed the new bullet had less (875 m / s for the D30 versus 935 m / s for the D27), at 2 km it had a more flat trajectory.

Lateral support

One of the main problems with record shooting is that you cannot raise the bar of the optical sight indefinitely. When firing at such distances, the rifle has large elevation angles, as when firing from a canopy, almost like a howitzer. At the top of the trajectory, the bullet travels at a height of several hundred meters. No sights allow you to make such corrections for aiming, therefore, for record shooting, special slats are used for the sight. However, you can’t endlessly raise the bar: the muzzle device begins to block the line of sight. This was precisely what confused Lobaev in the last record of the Americans: the angle of the bar did not correspond to the correction necessary for such a distance. The solution to this problem Lobaev peeped at the artillery, where the sight had long been moved to the left of the barrel. The solution is simple, but no one in the world before Lobaev used it. If you look closely at the photo, you can see that the sight on Lobaev's record-breaking rifles passes to the left of the barrel. What turned out to be more convenient for shooting: you don’t need to throw your head back and you can take the optimal position.

Lobaev's know-how - side mount sight for ultra-long range shooting. A year ago it was forbidden even to photograph it. This system can also find application in the troops: when firing at long distances, it helps to get by with the available Russian sights.

On the second try

They were going to break the record last summer in the fields near Krasnodar. For this, a giant target measuring 10 x 10 m was made in order to at least shoot. How a bullet behaves at such distances, no one knew, and there were no exact mathematical models. It was only clear that the bullets would enter the ground in the target area almost vertically, so the target was at a high angle. The difficulty was that the soil during the shooting was wet, so it was necessary to hit the target exactly: traces of hitting the ground at such low speeds and almost vertical angles are not visible. Unfortunately for the whole team, the record failed the first time: they couldn't even hit such a big target. While preparing for the next round, the Americans posted a video with a 4 km record on the Web. It became clear that you need to shoot even further.

Throughout the past year, Lobaev and his team conjured over a rifle and new bullets, giving practically no information about the project, being afraid to jinx the world record, constantly approaching the cherished milestone, first taking 4170 m, then 4200. And in October of this year they succeeded the incredible: the well-known shooter and promoter Andrey Ryabinsky hit a 1 x 1 m target from a distance of 4210 m. For such a shot, a huge number of factors had to be taken into account, including the rotation of the Earth - the bullet spent 13 seconds in the air! As the record holder himself said, he went to this shot for eight years. So now the ball is on American territory. Or, more correctly, a bullet.