Russia's Defense Minister, Anatoly Serdyukov, set off a firestorm of debate in Russia after saying that his military's pride and joy, the Kalashnikov and Dragunov SVDs sniper rifles, are "morally ...

In 1989, the Swiss military magazine Schweizer Waffen-Magazin published an article about the SVD, which read: “The Soviet Dragunov sniper rifle using the classical Russian 7.62×54mmR cartridge ...

The situation for the Dragunov didn’t improve after the fall of the Soviet Union. A couple variants for special purposes were made, the SVDS which added a folding stock for paratroopers, the SVU ...