Snipers are especially effective when deployed within the terrain of urban warfare, or jungle warfare. In addition to marksmanship, military snipers are trained in camouflage, field craft, infiltration, special reconnaissance and observation, surveillance and target acquisition. Snipers typically have highly selective and specialized training and use high-precision/special application rifles and optics, and often have sophisticated communication assets to feed valuable combat information back to their units.
These sniper teams operate independently, with little combat asset support from their parent units. Polish snipers unit during November UprisingĪ sniper is a highly trained marksman who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain close visual contact with the enemy and engage targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the detection capabilities of enemy personnel. SVT-40 (can appear with a PU scope) and AVT-40.Royal Marines snipers with L115A1 sniper riflesĪrkansas Army National Guard soldiers practice sniper marksmanship at their firing range near Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005.įrench Foreign Legion snipers using the Hecate II (front) and the FR-F2 (back) in Afghanistan Soviet sailors and German soldiers and Hilfspolizei.
Translation from German (Perevod s nemetskogo) One Warrior in the Field (Odin v pole voin) With PU scope Seen in gunshop "The Fastest Man Alive"(S1E08) "To Be a Man" (S1E17) / changes back and forth between a Lee-Enfield No.4 due to bad continuity Island of Lost Ships (Ostrov pogibshikh korabley)īattle of Sevastopol (Bitva za Sevastopol)īorn by Revolution: On the Night of the 20th (Rozhdyonnaya revolyutsiey: V noch na 20-e) Under Martial Law (Po zakonam voyennogo vremeni) Poem of Kovpak: Snow-Storm (Duma o Kovpake: Buran)Īcross the Gobi and the Khingan (Govi Khyangand tulaldsan ni) Kostja and the Radioman (Kostja und der Funker)
Poem of Kovpak: Alarm (Duma o Kovpake: Nabat) No Unknown Soldiers (Net neizvestnykh soldat) With sword bayonets, some without magazines German soldiers and Yugoslavian resistance fightersįighting Film Collection No. The Tokarev SVT-40 and variants can be seen in the following films, television series, video games, and anime used by the following actors: Film Titleįighting Film Collection No. Fire Modes: Semi-Auto, Semi-Auto/Full-Auto (AVT-40).There was also an experimental 20-round drum, and 20- and 25-round box magazines. Capacity: 10-round detachable box magazine (may be loaded with 5-round stripper clips) rare 15-round magazines are existed.A 20-round drum was also tested, but it was considered unreliable and quickly discontinued. There were also 15-round magazines for SVT they are very rare today, as their production was discontinued in 1942 due to their complexity (since wartime production couldn't maintain the level of quality required for their production), and and are most likely to be found at the sites of former battles. This is for several reasons: in addition to costs, magazines from various rifles suffered from a lack of interchangeability, and could be easily lost in battle, and the SVT was on its way to being phased out by the PPSh-41 and the Mosin, so it was easier to equip each rifle with one well-fitted magazine, and reload them with stripper clips (the Gewehr 43 also suffered from such issues, despite attempts to issue more magazines). Originally, the rifles were issued with three magazines, but by 1943, they were only issued with one. The SVT/AVT was also the only Soviet rifle with a detachable magazine to be issued with a single magazine in the field (a trait ubiquitously and falsely attributed to the Fedorov Avtomat). The former was select-fire, and interestingly preceded the full-size AVT. The AKT and SKT carbine versions were also produced in small quantities from 1940 - 1943. Production of the SVT-40 ceased in 1945, and it was withdrawn from service shortly after the end of the war.įrom 1942 - 1943, the select-fire AVT-40 variant was also produced. It was intended as a replacement for the Mosin-Nagant M91/30 as the Soviet Union's service rifle, but production numbers fell sharply in 19, and only small quantities were produced in 1943 - 1945, with later releases immediately going to the reserve. The SVT-40 is a Soviet semi-automatic battle rifle introduced in 1940, replacing its predecessor, the SVT-38. Tokarev SVT-40 with PU sniper scope - 7.62x54mmR