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[fext]

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Great work on the mod!

Just a gun-nut note for SVD patriots and fans: Russian small arms are not exactly the best, they are very rugged, can survive an extreme abuse and still work, and are easy to manufacture and cheap. Therefore they are excellent for former Soviet union Red army. The best small arms are objectively German (note - I'm a Czech and ofc I have a soft spot for czech small arms so there is nothing patriotic about my german weaponry praise). AK47, and SVD which uses AK system - it's basicaly large AK - is based on simplified Stg44 system.
Little summary of the most copied and most succesfull systems in nowadays guns:

1. assault rifle - Stg 44, hands down. Credits go to Germany.
2a. pistol - Colt 1911 and Browning HP - both of them created by genius John Moses Browning, USA. My personal favorite CZ 75 pistol is improved Browning HP.
2b. pistol - Glock, created by Gaston Glock, Austria. Another work of a genius. True incarnation of rule KISS, keep it simple and stupid. It's ugly, ugly, ugly but hell they do work. Everything practical on this one. You will love dearly your tuned 1911 clone but carry a Glock.
2c - Walther PPK, Germany.
3. bolt action rifle - Mauser 98, Germans again.
4. revolver - Colt, USA again.

Concerning nowadays top manufacturers of service weaponry, I vote for HK. Followed by Sig (I love the Swiss SG 550), Glock and Ruger. Note that if I have to fight for my life in unknown place under unknown conditions I'd pick up a Czech Vz.58 which, again, is an improved Stg44 and uses effective Soviet 7.62x39 ammo.

SVD is not a sniper rifle in the precise meaning, it's a platoon support sharpshooters rifle. Russian snipers use bolt action rifles because they need precise guns (like SV98 and MTs16). It's said that the main problem is with the rimmed 7.62x54R round which can't be locked in the chamber good enough. OTOH thge best sniper in the history, finnish Samo Hayha, killed terrible lot of people using shortened finnish variant of Mosin Nagant using the same ammo, so in fact it's not about the gun or the round, it's about the guy who holds the gun.
Have fun people.

PS. You can find a lot of info on small arms on nice Russian site http://world.guns.ru/

Edited by fext, 08 February 2009 - 09:39 AM.

[USCMC]

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Best looking sniper rifle:) Thank you very much, Fallout3 just got one hundred percent better

[Oktanas]

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i hope it's great

[hosad]

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super

[Sreken]

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Awesome!

[ivan101]

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Great thanks from russian Fallout 3 player. Awesome mod. Only 10. And not only because i'm russian.

[muskabeatz]

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Ohhhh yes, I've been waiting for a Dragunov for a while now, awesome, especially like the reticle. Just one thing, needs a bit of work on the eye piece, but apart from that, excellent work!

[thewolffshaman]

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Oh my god. I love you.

[lordbelfast]

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God, about time! Someone finally made that monster.

[lordbelfast]

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God, about time! Someone finally made that monster.