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Snayperskaya...if you ever want to change your nick name-go for "Frank Zappa"....

How much do you think you can is worth?

oooh, zillions we expect: after all, only about 2 million other tins like it are in existence...

Maybe but where are they ... cos finding such a can is quite tricky, making every single SVD's owner dreaming of getting its mitts on one...

Plenty of tins of sniper ammo were buried all across Europe back in the Cold War days. They were pre-positioned for Spetsnaz, deeply emplaced sleepers and sundry sputniks who would have infiltrated into place prior to the outbreak of WW3 and then used the weapons caches to pick off selected targets, e.g. pilots, missile crews, senior military and political figures and so forth... They get found from time to time.

meles meles wrote:Plenty of tins of sniper ammo were buried all across Europe back in the Cold War days. They were pre-positioned for Spetsnaz, deeply emplaced sleepers and sundry sputniks who would have infiltrated into place prior to the outbreak of WW3 and then used the weapons caches to pick off selected targets, e.g. pilots, missile crews, senior military and political figures and so forth... They get found from time to time.

Why would they bury sniper ammo when it would be of more benefit to bury AK ammo, especially as 7n1 was rarely issued even in the Soviet army?.I work with a guy that served in the VDV in Afghanistan (career soldier not a conscript) as a Dragunov-equipped sniper and he has told me that all the time he was in the Soviet army he was only ever issued with around a 100 rounds of 7n1.

We assumes that as they were planning a decapitation strike, taking out key holders to missile launch systems, pilots and so forth in the hours prior to the initial invasion, they would give 'em the good stuff. That's seems to be in the caches discovered so far. Scoped M91s and decent ammo, not spray and pray AKs....

meles meles wrote:We assumes that as they were planning a decapitation strike, taking out key holders to missile launch systems, pilots and so forth in the hours prior to the initial invasion, they would give 'em the good stuff. That's seems to be in the caches discovered so far. Scoped M91s and decent ammo, not spray and pray AKs....

Any links to articles regarding this?......

Edit....found a few articles that describe weapons and comms equipment caches for use by spys in case of war but nothing that mentions sniper rifles for taking out pilots, nuclear launch key holders etc, which all sounds a bit "Tom Clancy" if you ask me......had the Cold War gone "hot" I very much doubt that if a pilot or two did happen to be taken out by a sniper in the right place at the right time it would hardly have prevented a nuclear holocaust!.

As if, ooman, as if.

Google is your friend for looking up open sources...

meles meles wrote:As if, ooman, as if.

Google is your friend for looking up open sources...

Privy to secret info?.