Indian snipers to replace AK-57 Dragunov with US and Italian rifles
The subject has popped up a few times since April 2018: the Indian army will at last get 5,719 sniper rifles (instead of 6,500 initially planned) from U.S. and Italian manufacturers to replace its ageing Soviet-era AK-57 Dragunov SVD rifles procured in the 1990s, The Financial Express has reported, echoed by Swarajiya.
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| Indian snipers will have their ageing AK-57 Dragunov replaced with Messers Beretta .338 Lapua Magmum Scorpio TGT of Italy and .50 M95 MS Barrett from the US (Picture source: Dragunov.net) |
