POTD: SVD and M700 Marksmanship Training
POTD, short for Photo Of The Day, is TFB’s recurring articles where we do our best to find the best firearms related pictures out there.
Today East meets West, or perhaps it’s vice versa?
The photo is taken in Yavoriv, Ukraine, and you see Soldiers of Task Force Carentan joined Combat Training Center-Yavoriv OC/T’s and the 10th Mountain Assault Brigade as they conduct marksmanship training with the SVD and M700 sniper rifles
We’re looking at a Remington Model 700. The sniper rifles of both the U.S. Army and the and U.S. Marine Corps are built from the Remington Model 700 rifle. They are called the M24 Sniper Weapon System and M40 respectively. (in 7.62×51mm NATO).
I am not sure if the Remington has a Schmidt & Bender or a Leupold scope, and it looks like a Spuhr mount.
The rifle closest to the camera is a Dragunov sniper rifle (SVD) in 7.62×54mmR.
The photo is from the U.S. Army, by Sgt. Justin Navin. (2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (AA) Public Affairs.)
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After the USSR disintegrated, access was opened (until Putin took over) for review of Soviet military tactics and post-op reports that occurred during the Cold War. After-action reports from the Soviet invasion of Afghanistan described the SVD as a very effective weapon against targets out to 900 meters. Most of those reports were from Spetsnaz units that specialized in ambushes against untrained Mujaheddin fighters caught out in the open. Spetsnaz snipers particularly liked the fast follow-up shots of the semi-auto SVD with it's 10-round magazine. Reports of 3-5 hits before the Muj could take cover were common. The 120 year old Russian 7.62x54R cartridge in the SVD or the newer SVDK in 9.3mm are still very formidable weapon systems on the modern battlefield.
M700 scope looks like bushnell ers 6-24x50 with sunshade