![]() ![]() Worth mentioning that both of these issues were realised and visualised unbelievably well in ‘Player Unknown’s Battleground’ and ‘Escape from Tarkov’. So you need to aim slightly higher than the target in order to hit it. To put it simply, modern weapons are five times more accurate than the VSS ‘Vintorez’ created back in 1987.īesides that, ‘Vintorez’ rounds start losing their ballistic trajectory and start “ducking” below the circle at this distance. 338 Federal chambered sniper rifles have a more than five times smaller circle. The weapon spreads bullets in a wide 10-12 cm circle from that distance. But, anyway, we had to continue our tests.Īt first, I wanted to find out how accurate the weapon is at 100 meter distances compared to the games. I didn’t reveal my astonishment, as I always thought that snipers have only one attempt to eliminate a target and secretly leave their position before being noticed by enemies. I stared surprised at the instructor and he told me that “it’s okay, as the weapon needs to warm up”. The weapon makes a distinctive “boom” clap after the first shot. Computer games ballisticsįirst shot from the silent sniper rifle turned out to be not silent at all. I stood puzzled at the range, asked what’s wrong and why both weapons looked so familiar to each other. To be honest, from the outside, the ‘Vintorez’ was the exact copy of it. So, in five seconds, I already had a fully assembled weapon that strongly reminded me of the AS ‘Val’ Russian silent assault rifle. The ‘Vintorez’ was created for the same purpose - it’s a weapon that can be hidden in the lower parts of a case, snuck into a building and assembled to secretly eliminate a target from afar. It’s easy,” he said, showing me how to turn out a couple of pieces of metal and wood in a full-sized sniper rifle in five seconds.įrankly speaking, I was shocked, as the situation reminded me of the movie ‘Leon’ (1994) where Jean Reno shows Natalie Portman how to assemble a sniper rifle on a roof and kill a man. The moment felt weird, as never before had an instructor given me four parts of a real sniper rifle and expected me to easily assemble it, as if it was LEGO. Basically, right at the entrance to the range, I was given a simple bag with a number of weapon parts inside. But the main feature about it lies in its compactness and portability. In real life, the weapon turned out to be edgy and clumsy. We spent nearly a month negotiating with one of them to let us in and conduct a number of shooting and ballistic tests with the ‘Vintorez’ sniper rifle. Tula could be called the arms manufacturing capital of Russia, with numerous factories producing weapons for the country’s army. ![]() To start our test with the Soviet Union’s first ever silent sniper rifle - the VSS ‘Vintorez’ - we gathered our video team with slow-motion cameras and took a 200-kilometer trip to Tula. ![]()
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