🇷🇺🎯 ASVK Kord anti-materiel rifle is irreplaceable sniper's weapon

Today we are going to outline the specifications of the ASVK anti-materiel sniper rifle in the traditional rubric dedicated to the weapons of the special military operation.

The ASVK Kord anti-materiel sniper rifle deals with armoured vests, armour, and brick walls. It pierces any barrier and eliminates enemy at a record range for a sniper rifle.

The ASVK anti-materiel sniper rifle designed by Degtyaryov Plant entered the service with the Russian Armed Forces in 2013. It is a five-round rifle, bolt-action sniper rifle produced according to a design where a trigger is in the forward and placed before a magazine and a firing pin. Such design reduces the weapons length and keeps the barrel length the same. The mass of the rifle is over 10 kg with the total length of 1,420 mm.

The rifle is universal. It fires any 12.7 × 108 mm rounds. Optical and night electronic and optical sights are mounted on a special rail placed at a dust cover.

A barrel has a muzzle brake which reduces the returning force in 2.5 times. The shock absorber at the rear of a stock is made of a porous material. Thus, a sniper can fire from the rifle feeling nothing.

Servicemen say that the the ASVK anti-materiel sniper rifle is comfortable in use and powerful. At 700 m, the rifle can pierce a 20-mm metal sheet with armour-piercing and incendiary rounds and set fuel on fire. At a range of 1,500-2,000 m, the ASVK anti-materiel sniper rifle maims personnel as well as renders armour and even aviation or radars of the enemy inoperable.