A Russian sniper set a record for the range of aimed fire. American broke the world record for sniper range
The world record was set by Russian snipers who hit a target at a distance of almost three and a half kilometers from the firing position. Incredible result is now called a new victory domestic weapons and are even going to apply for the Guinness Book of Records. The previous group record was broken by our masters of field shooting by 100 meters, the record of a professional sniper by more than one thousand. On the eve of the anniversary Great Victory It was decided to dedicate the achievement to everyone who fought for the Motherland. How it happened - in a special report by LifeNews.
The fire experiment took place on the border of the Kaluga and Tula regions near the regional center of Tarusa. It was here that sniper Vladislav Lobaev, together with his team, decided to carry out an ambitious task - to break the world record in rifle shooting.
- This is an exclusive shooting - it is a record-breaking one. This is not group shooting - this is shooting to hit, at least one shot, - says Vladislav Lobaev, designer of sniper rifles.
By the way, Vladislav Lobaev himself is an athlete, he is fond of long-range shooting. In addition, Lobaev developed the latest sniper rifle, which now bears his name. A few years ago, a man created in Russia the first private firm for serial production precision weapons. After many achievements in the development of weapons, the Americans forced Vlad to set a new record - already in the sniper business.
We are talking about a video that appeared on the Web, in which four foreign cowboys of advanced age hit a target at a distance of 30 football fields - about three thousand three hundred meters. For domestic masters, the foreign experiment aroused suspicions, turning into a challenge.
Already here, in Russia, the distance of three thousand four hundred meters is a hundred more than that of the Americans. In other words, the territory under the experiment is commensurate with 32 football fields according to FIFA standards. Or a little less than any runway at Domodedovo Airport. And in Moscow itself, this is almost the same distance as from Manezhnaya Square to the Belorussky railway station - the entire Tverskaya street. A rangefinder helped me navigate the countryside. It was with his help that the points for the sniper and targets were chosen in the fields.
The main condition of the experiment is the absence of obstacles at the entire distance. This was just the field. Kaluga region. The target was set up three agricultural fields from the firing position. The participants had to get here through plowed land and mud.
The target itself is a meter by a meter. The shield was dug right into the remains of last year's hay.
- Mission Impossible. 3400 - it's just that no one did. If this happens, it will be a world record, - says the master of sports in bullet shooting Sergey Parfyonov.
In the hands of Vladislav was a difficult rifle, which has no analogues in the world. The sniper created weapons with his own hands. In total, the athlete has six different models in the weapons range. By the way, this sniper rifle is called "Twilight". Her caliber 408 Chey Tac muzzle velocity- 900 meters per second, length - 1430 millimeters, barrel length - 780 millimeters, weight - more than nine and a half kilograms.
True, to achieve the record, in order to increase the range, the weapon had to be modified: to increase the bar under the sight, to move the rear of the barrel higher. In addition, even the bullets had to be loaded special - with a pointed tip, which, like lightning, cuts through the air.
The first few shots were encouraging - although they did not hit the target, they definitely caught up with the Americans. And in order to overtake, it seems that all the conditions coincided at the shooting range - sunny weather and even the wind dies down from time to time. After some time, the bullet still pierced the target.
According to Vlad Lobaev, this result is still better than the American one and even worthy of the Guinness Book of Records. Note that the previous record was set in Afghanistan by a professional sniper-military Briton Craig Garrison. In 2010, he hit a target located at a distance of 2.47 kilometers from an L115A3 Long Range Rifle rifle of 8.59 mm caliber, which has a standard firing range of about 1100 meters.
His team now expects to enter their names there, having conquered the firing line for three and a half kilometers. And on the eve of the anniversary of the Great Victory, they decided to dedicate this record to everyone who fought for the Motherland.
The experiment was carried out on the agricultural fields of the Kaluga region.
The world record was set by Russian snipers who hit a target at a distance of almost three and a half kilometers from the firing position. The incredible result is now called a new victory for domestic weapons and they are even going to apply for the Guinness Book of Records. The previous group record was broken by our masters of field shooting by 100 meters, the record of a professional sniper by more than one thousand.
The fire experiment took place on the border of the Kaluga and Tula regions near the regional center of Tarusa. It was here that sniper Vladislav Lobaev, together with his team, decided to carry out an ambitious task - to break the world record in rifle shooting.
This is an exclusive shooting - exactly of a record nature. This is not group shooting - this is shooting to hit, at least one shot, - says Vladislav Lobaev, designer of sniper rifles.
By the way, Vladislav Lobaev himself is an athlete, he is fond of long-range shooting. In addition, Lobaev developed the latest sniper rifle, which now bears his name. A few years ago, a man created the first private company in Russia for the serial production of precision weapons. After many achievements in the development of weapons, the Americans forced Vlad to set a new record - already in the sniper business.
We are talking about a video that appeared on the Web, in which four foreign cowboys of advanced age hit a target at a distance of 30 football fields - about three thousand three hundred meters. For domestic masters, the foreign experiment aroused suspicions, turning into a challenge.
Already here, in Russia, the distance of three thousand four hundred meters is a hundred more than that of the Americans. In other words, the territory under the experiment is commensurate with 32 football fields according to FIFA standards. Or a little less than any runway at Domodedovo airport. And in Moscow itself, this is almost the same distance as from Manezhnaya Square to the Belorussky railway station - the entire Tverskaya street. A rangefinder helped me navigate the countryside. It was with his help that the points for the sniper and targets were chosen in the fields.
The main condition of the experiment is the absence of obstacles at the entire distance. This was only the field of the Kaluga region. The target was set up three agricultural fields from the firing position. The participants had to get here through plowed land and mud.
The target itself is a meter by a meter. The shield was dug right into the remains of last year's hay.
Mission Impossible. 3400 - it's just no one did. If this happens, it will be a world record, - says Sergey Parfenov, master of sports in bullet shooting.
In the hands of Vladislav was a difficult rifle, which has no analogues in the world. The sniper created weapons with his own hands. In total, the athlete has six different models in the weapons range. By the way, this sniper rifle is called "Twilight". Its caliber is 408 Chey Tac, muzzle velocity - 900 meters per second, length - 1430 millimeters, barrel length - 780 millimeters, weight - more than nine and a half kilograms.
True, to achieve the record, in order to increase the range, the weapon had to be modified: to increase the bar under the sight, to move the rear of the barrel higher. In addition, even special bullets had to be loaded - with a pointed tip, which, like lightning, cuts through the air.
The first few shots were encouraging - although they didn’t hit the target, they definitely caught up with the Americans. And in order to overtake, it seems that all the conditions coincided at the shooting range - sunny weather and even the wind subsides from time to time. After some time, the bullet still pierced the target.
According to Vlad Lobaev, this result is still better than the American one and even worthy of the Guinness Book of Records. Note that the previous record was set in Afghanistan by a professional sniper-military Briton Craig Garrison. In 2010, he hit a target located at a distance of 2.47 kilometers from an L115A3 Long Range Rifle rifle of 8.59 mm caliber, which has a standard firing range of about 1100 meters.
December 27th, 2017
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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.
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 sniping 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 a field in the Kaluga region (there are simply no multi-kilometer shooting ranges in Russia), the Lobaev 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: a French sniper from the Foreign Legion after long workouts 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 posted 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, shooting at a distance is considered ultra-long-range shooting, 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, most unpleasantly, in this mode, some physical processes occur that make it difficult to shoot at ultra-long distances.
First, there is a restabilization effect. Linear 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.
The classic problems for ultra-long range shooting require increased bullet mass and improved 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 × 108 mm) is a transition to another class and a completely different weapon with all the ensuing consequences: other 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 deviate from the old cartridge case and caliber .408 CheyTac, not to 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. Despite the fact that the muzzle velocity of the new bullet was lower (875 m/s for the D30 versus 935 m/s for the D27), it had a flatter trajectory at 2 km.
Lateral support
One of the biggest problems with record shooting is that you can't keep raising the bar indefinitely. optical sight. 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 be used in the military: 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 × 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 firing was wet, so it was necessary to hit exactly on the target: traces of hitting the ground at such low speeds and almost vertical corners 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.
New distance record sniper shooting belongs to the team of Vladislav Lobaev, a Russian arms manufacturer whose precision-guided sniper rifles have been adopted by the FSB and FSO of Russia.
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.
High-precision sniper rifle SVLK-14S "Dusk" 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 are planning to set a new record - by 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 erupted on the Internet about whether it makes sense combat shooting for such distances. Part of the particularly knowledgeable "experts" claimed that the bullet allegedly loses everything lethal force 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 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 sniper rifle, flew to the targets in 6 seconds.
There is also information about the allegedly absolute record for the range of a shot from a sniper rifle - 3,850 meters, which was set 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.