The First Rifle Chambered for the Soviet 12.7h107 - Gepard M1

It is clear that a good beginning does not stand still, and the use of machine gun rounds for .50 "Browning" by Western countries for the sniper rifle, led to the fact that the countries of the former Warsaw Pact members that are provided with Soviet-style weapons, began to do something like that . 

Soviet 12.7 mm ammunition, an analogue of NATO membership in some of the munition was used for the same purpose - to chuck a sniper rifle. First there were the Hungarians - their sniper rifle Gepard M1 assignment is the first sniper weapon by the Soviet 12.7h107 ammunition. Create a rifle in 1990, production began in a small number of 1991. Created Gepard M1 F.Feldi Hungarian engineer.

Device design and sniper rifle use Gepard M1 - single-shot weapon with a rather interesting design breech. Pistol grip is made ​​a separate element of the rifle, the front part of which has a gate with a number of lugs, placed behind the trigger with the hammer. For loading the cartridge into the rifle, pistol grip should turn to the right - open the breech of the weapon. Then you need to pull the handle back, that would extend full frame shutter. 


You can now set the ammo into the chamber. Next, insert the frame bolt into place and turn the handle - locked gate. The hammer rifle platoon manually. Gepard M1 is ready to fire - aim and still maintain accurate fire. Since the returns from 12.7 mm ammunition is quite palpable, the rifle found in the base frame chehloobraznogo performance within its arms can be moved along the longitudinal axis. 

The return to the rifle is extinguished specifically made ​​a spring. This spring and increased muzzle brake reduces recoil up to a reasonable size - approximately equal to impact large-caliber hunting ammunition. At the rifle butt pad installed under the cheek, the palm unoccupied hand at close to the butt of one-legged type bipod completed a comfortable stop. Most of the weapons going to fry bipedal performance, which is set at the beginning of the bed. Non-automatic safety lever is located on the pistol grip - locks the trigger.

On the accuracy of Soviet and NATO ammunition are almost identical. Consequently, at a distance of half a kilometer from the bullets of ammunition safely form the 25-inch circle. Armor-piercing ammunition at a given distance proshet steel sheet of 1.5 cm. At the standard distance of 1.3 km will form the bullets safely in 30 inch circle. 

Hungarian engineers have shown that lock-on range from Gepard M1dostatochna big - 2 km to the objects one meter on. Open Sight is intended solely for emergencies, the rifle has an optical sight with a twelvefold increase, which is mounted on the frame. Since the barrel can move longitudinally relative to the base, set-ups for combat may cause some inconvenience. There is a modification of the rifle - Gepard M1A1, in principle, it is the same sniper rifle, only the type installed on spetsstaninu.