SVD
Снайперская винтовка Драгунова
Izhmash1963–presentEarly Cold War
Also known as Dragunov, SVD-63
Image credit
- Title
- File:SVD Dragunov.jpg
- Author
- Hokos(attribution required)
- Licence
- CC BY-SA 4.0
- Source
- https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:SVD_Dragunov.jpg
How Muzzle energy is calculated
E = ½ · m · v²
Not calculated: v has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Muzzle velocity is calculated
no sourced velocity for this load
Not calculated: muzzle velocity has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
No input on this calculation carries a clickable source yet.
How Loaded mass is calculated
m_loaded = m_empty + m_magazine + n · m_cartridge
Not calculated: m_empty has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- One magazine, filled to the stated capacity. Spare magazines, optics, slings and lights are the owner’s, not the arm’s.
1 of 4 inputs link to their source.
How Free recoil is calculated
E_recoil = ½ · m_firearm · v_recoil²
Not calculated: m_firearm has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Propellant gas momentum is excluded: ARMAG does not record charge weights (SPEC.md §14). This is therefore a lower bound on the real free recoil, consistent between entries but smaller than a figure that includes the gas term.
- Free recoil: the arm is unrestrained. Stock design, muzzle devices, stance and shooter mass are not modelled, because none of them is a property of the arm.
No input on this calculation carries a clickable source yet.
How Capacity is calculated
as published for the primary chambering
Inputs
- capacity10verifiedsourceDetachable box magazine.
1 of 1 inputs link to their source.
Derived figures
Computed from the sourced values above. Open ƒ on any figure for the formula, its inputs, and the assumptions it makes.
How Momentum is calculated
p = m · v
Not calculated: v has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Sectional density is calculated
SD = mass(gr) / (7000 · diameter(in)²)
Inputs
- mass9.7 g149.7 grverifiedsourceBallistics table of the cited article.
- diameter7.92 mm0.3118 inverifiedsourceCartridge maximum, dimension G1.
Assumptions
- Reported in the conventional lb/in² so it is directly comparable with published figures.
2 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Power factor is calculated
PF = mass(gr) · velocity(fps) / 1000
Not calculated: velocity has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- A competition classification defined by the IPSC and USPSA rulebooks, stated in their units. It describes a scoring category, not an effect.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Magazine dump is calculated
t = (n − 1) / (rpm / 60)
Not calculated: rpm has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Cyclic rate held for the whole magazine, no stoppages, trigger held down. A theoretical figure for comparing mechanisms, not a measured one.
1 of 2 inputs link to their source.
How Sight error at 1 mm is calculated
θ = atan(misalignment / sight radius)
Not calculated: sight radius has no sourced figure yet. Nothing is substituted for a missing input.
Assumptions
- Shows what a stated aiming error costs. The misalignment is the reader’s figure; the site does not claim how well anyone aims.
No input on this calculation carries a clickable source yet.
Specifications
Every row here is generated from the schema, so a figure recorded on this entry cannot be missing from the table — and the same rows, read the same way, are what the comparison shows.
Identity
- Type
- Rifle
- Action
- Self-loading
- Fire modes
- Semi-automatic
- Operating system
- Gas, short-stroke piston
- Designed in
- Soviet Union
- Produced in
- Introduced
- 1963
- Production
- 1963–present
Dimensions and mass
- Mass, empty
- not recorded
- Magazine, empty
- not recorded
- Length
- not recorded
- Length, folded
- not recorded
- Width
- not recorded
- Height
- not recorded
- Barrel length
- not recorded
Sights and rifling
- Sight radius
- not recorded
- Sight height over bore
- not recorded
- Rifling twist
- not recorded
- Twist direction
- not recorded
- Grooves
- not recorded
- Sight graduation
- not recorded
Operation
- Cyclic rate
- not recorded
- Trigger pull
- not recorded
- Effective range
- 800 m874.9 ydsource
- Units produced
- not recorded
- Launch price
- not recorded
Chamberings
- 7.62x54mmRprimary10 rounds
Scale
A to-scale outline against family siblings. The dimensions are sourced; the shape is a representative outline for the type, and says so.
Representative outline — the dimensions are sourced, the shape is not. Overall length, and barrel length where recorded, are drawn from this entry's own figures; the profile is a generic one for the firearm type and says nothing about this arm's actual contours.
Not drawn: SVD (no sourced overall length).
Detail
Not a sniper rifle in the Western sense, and the distinction is the whole point of the design. Yevgeny Dragunov built a weapon for a marksman inside a rifle squad — one man per platoon, engaging out to about 800 m, moving and shooting at the same tempo as everyone around him. That is a different job from a two-man team in a hide with a bolt gun, and it produced a different rifle: self-loading, ten rounds, under four and a half kilograms, and accurate to roughly two minutes of angle rather than a fraction of one.
Mechanically it looks like a Kalashnikov and is not one. The gas system is short-stroke, so the piston does not travel with the carrier; the bolt has three locking lugs instead of two; the receiver is a different pattern entirely and no parts interchange.
The PSO-1 sight that came with it is as much a part of the weapon as the barrel — 4× magnification, an illuminated reticle, and a stadiametric rangefinder calibrated against a 1.7 m man.
The cited article publishes no weight, no overall length and no barrel length, so this entry has none. That is a gap in the source rather than a property of the rifle, and it is why this page shows fewer figures than its neighbours.
References
This entry's own bibliography. Every citation key on this page resolves into this list.
- SVD (rifle) · Wikipedia · 1371794895 · read 2026-08-31 · CC BY-SA 4.0
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