War Mechanic

When Evgenie Fedorovich Dragunov went to work for the Soviet military's small arms plant at Izhevsk in 1939, no one could have imagined the contributions he would make during his life. While these were many, Dragunov is most well-known for the rifle that bears his name: the Snaiperskaya Vintovka Dragunova, or Sniper's Rifle Dragunov (SVD). Designed in 1959, the SVD was in simple terms, an enlarged variant of the Automat Kalazhnikov (AK), firing one of the most accurate full-size rifle cartridges of it's day: the Russian 7.62 x 54 mmR (rimmed). Adopted in 1963. the SVD became standard issue with the sharpshooter of the Soviet and Chinese armies and was used throughout the Vietnam War. Variations of the SVD were also used by other ComBlok countries.

Barrett M82 - Special Application Scoped Rifle The M82 (also more recently known as the M107) is a heavy SASR (Special Application Scoped Rifle) developed by the American Barrett Firearms Company. It is used by many units and armies around the world, including the American Special Forces. It is also called the “Light Fifty” for its .50 caliber BMG (12.7 mm) chambering. The weapon is found in two variants — the original M82A1 (and A3) and the bullpup M82A2. The M82A2 is no longer manufactured, though XM500 can be seen as its successor, in that it also employs a bullpup configuration. Barrett M82 - Overview The Barrett Firearms Company was founded by Ronnie Barrett for the single purpose of building semi-automatic rifles chambered for the powerful 12.7×99mm NATO (.50 BMG) ammunition, originally developed for and used in M2 Browning machine guns. Barrett began his work in the early 1980s and the first working rifles were available in 1982, hence the designation M82. Barrett continued

There has been a long standing request by Russian snipers to upgrade their standard sniper rifle from the SVD. There is nothing wrong with the SVD for what it was designed for. But when the snipers need a precision long range rifle, the SVD does not perform up to the modern sniper rifle standard. A formal request for a new bolt action sniper rifle was made, and in 1998 Vladimir Stronskiy designed and delivered to the Arms R&D center of the Izhmash OJSC the Snaiperskaya Vintovka (sniper rifle), model 1998. (SV-98). The new rifle uses a cold hammer forged heavy barrel and cold hammer forged action. The barrel is freefloating and there are three locking lugs on the bolt. There is a flash suppressor (AK style) and also SVD aux sites. An integral scope mount is on the reciever, and the standard optics sitting on top is the PKS-07, which is a 7x scope, slightly more then the PSO-1 on the SVD. The fibreglass stock is available as an option upon order. The barrels are threaded for a specia

How does a bullet proof vest work? When a handgun bullet strikes body armor, sensible is occupied access a ” lacework ” of unquestionable hardy fibers. These fibers imbibe and emit the influence energy that is transmitted to the bullet proof vest from the bullet, causing the bullet to deform or ” oatmeal. ” Fresh energy is absorbed by each following layer of material leadership bullet proof vests, until resembling day whereas the bullet has been stopped. Being the fibers work calm both control the discrete layer and salt away other layers of material moment the vest, a large area of the bullet proof vest becomes involved credit preventing the bullet from penetrating. This further helps money dissipating the forces which fault originate nonpenetrating injuries ( what is commonly referred to since ” blunt trauma ” ) to internal organs. Unfortunately, at this moment no material exists that would let on body armor to correspond to constructed from a single ply of material. Currently, tod