New ultra-long-range large-caliber rifle for engaging targets at range 2,5-3 km is being created in Russia. The company is developing new weapons “Promtehnolohyya” (ORSIS).
As the chief designer Maxim Baymetov told RIA Novosti, a new rifle is being created under the universal NATO cartridge .50 BMG (Browning Machine Gun 12,7 × 99 mm), tests of a prototype large-caliber rifle should start at the beginning of next year. weapon, Firstly, focused on foreign market, but Russian law enforcement agencies are already interested in them.
Baymetov did not give any details of the development, just emphasized, that the rifle will be able to shoot at record 2,5-3 km. According to him, this will be a rifle not for setting records, a real military weapon, applied on a regular basis.
The parameters we have declared assume, that snipers will be able to hit targets at a distance of about 2,5 kilometers with accurate shooting, and that will be the rule, not an exception. Today in Russia no one produces military weapons of this class
– he added.
Company “Promtehnolohyya” (brand ORSIS) – developer and manufacturer of the ORSIS T-5000 precision rifle, on the basis of which a sniper complex was created “Accuracy”. Rifles from this manufacturer are created with barrels, obtained by the method of trellis planing on CNC machines. The value of the tolerances in the depth of the rifling of the barrel is less 0,0025 mm, and step by step – about 0,004 mm 1 m. This is one of the most accurate methods for creating small arms barrels..
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