The VSS (Russian: Винтовка Снайперская Специальная Vintovka Snayperskaya Spetsialnaya or Special Sniper Rifle) also called the Vintorez (thread cutter) is a suppressed sniper rifle that uses a heavy subsonic 9×39 mm SP-5 cartridge. It was developed in the late 1980s by TsNIITochMash and manufactured by the Tula Arsenal.
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length (km)
0.82072
weight (kg)
2600.0
origin
Soviet Union
type
Sniper rifle
used in war
Soviet war in Afghanistan, Chechen–Russian conflict, Russo-Georgian war
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