today, 10:09 | Sergey Bolotov
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The representative of Command of the U.S. special operations Matt Allen told reporters about the decision to apply for U.S. arms manufacturers to establish an Assembly of the best Russian sniper and automatic rifles for the needs of allies around the world.
“With regard to this search request, we examine the possibilities and capabilities of our manufacturing centers to collect those types of weapons that use many of our foreign partners”, — quotes Allen, the Washington Post.
An unusual request military specialists due to the fact that sophisticated American weapons is a lot of hassle to maintain, which is hard to cope allies of the US. In particular, the Afghan and Iraqi troops and Syrian rebels receive from the United States of American weapons, although over the years since the war in Afghanistan used to work with Soviet weapons, which is cheaper and more practical.
“Request special operations Command includes weapons such as the iconic AK-47″ — a generic term for all variants of the Kalashnikov assault rifle. Special forces also want to get the SVD, a unique sniper rifle, which probably killed thousands of US troops, as it appeared during the Vietnam war. In addition, the request is the Russian medium and heavy machine guns and 14.5 mm anti-aircraft guns”, — notes the edition.
Special operations command United States represents one of nine major operational departments of the special forces, directly subordinate to the joint chiefs of staff. Its special forces are in the army, air force and naval forces of the United States. All special operations forces have the status of separate kinds of troops in the composition of the U.S. armed forces to increase efficiency and eliminate delays and bureaucracy that are especially harmful in an emergency. Due to this, the special operations Command of US and is able to demand for their fighters special weapon.
