in Russia developed the world’s first multi-caliber rifle “devastant”, which is able to fire by NATO cartridges of 12.7 x 99 millimeters. This was stated by the general director of the company-developer Lobaev Arms Vladislav Lobayev, RIA Novosti reports.
According to the specialist, the main advantage of the new rifle is its modularity. “We were the first to implement the possibility of snipers to change the trunks of the trunks at once.
Lobayev noted that a new weapon has a unique for caliber 12.7 adultery of shooting 0.5 angular minute – thus the rifle shoots four times more accurate than the American Barret (2 angular minutes). Such high accuracy will allow her to perform one of the most difficult tasks – fighting sniper enemy units.
Lobaev Arms developer companies belong to the top-end arms today. The “Dusk” rifle allows you to hit the target at a distance of 2.5 kilometers with an accurate shooting, 4.2 kilometers – with a record shooting.
In November 2019, the Russian sniper Sergey Shmakov with the help of Swallow-14 “Dusk” rifle in conditions of complete darkness managed to accurately hit the target removed for 1920 meters.