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SVD or RPK?


Delfi

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Hi all,

 

Did any of you see 'Panorama' on BBC1 on Sunday? (For those of you that didn't it was about 3 Para in Afghanistan).

 

Now, whilst it was nice to see an L96 there was an oddity.

 

This gun carried by a 'native' had the full wood Dragunov SVD furniture and the long barrel ... apart from the huge capacity box mag (not drum) attached to it.

 

This was the real steel ... anyone know what it is?

 

I feel a project coming on :nosleep:

 

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What did the receiver look like? The RPK and SVD have different bodies.

 

dragunov.jpg

rpk01.jpg

 

Programme available here. Any idea when in the programme its shown?

 

Nice find ... have a look at around 31:22 in the video you've suggested. It's a proper SVD as far as I can tell but I recall seeing it with a really bulky mag.

 

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That one? looks like a normal SVD to me.

 

I'm sure the guy turned around and I had a 'WTF is that?' moment. I'll watch the full clipped thing later to see if it was somewhere else.

 

Is there any reason why a SVD couldn't be fitted with a large capacity mag?

 

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