New Sniper System – Under Development
The Russian Instrument Design Bureau (KBP) is developing the KSV heavy sniper system for the Russian Armed Forces. The Russian military is planning to arm the snipers with rifles capable of rendering armored cars and armored personnel carriers.
According to defenseworld.net, the heavy sniper rifle is on the 2020 Army Small Arms Development List.
The program is expected to take two to three years. The weapon actually will present a whole system, rather than simply a sniper rifle, because systems with the caliber in excess of 20 mm are small-caliber cannons, rather than small arms under the international weapon classification.
“The company is expected to make the first prototype of the KSV in 2017,” Alexei Sorokin, director of the Central Design and Research Bureau of Sporting and Hunting Weapons (an affiliate of KBP), has told the Izvestia daily paper. He added:”We’re at the most difficult stage of the work now – the development of the round for the new system”.
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