![]() ![]() On 6 August 1942, the Artillery Committee of the Main Artillery Directorate noted in a resolution that the performance of sniper SVT-40 rifles being produced was not satisfactory. For comparison, in 1941 the price of one M91/30 rifle was 163 rubles. During the war, he also created an optical device “Tochka” for analyzing rifle and carbine barrel straightness which in 1942-1943 alone resulted in a savings of 881,200 rubles. After the war began, he moved to Izhevsk. ![]() In the prewar years, he was a famous designer of small caliber and hunting rifles working in Tula. Since the spring of 1942 there were efforts to create a mount for the PU sniper scope for use with M91/30 rifles. Additionally, production of PEM scopes was stopped in 1940, the existing stock could not cover the additional production of sniper rifles. However, the model 1936 mount was not suitable for mass production during the rough wartime conditions, it required very precise machining. Wartime pictures show that even trial prewar sniper rifles were issued to troops as a stopgap measureĪs a temporary measure, the production of PEM sniper rifles was restored by the Izhevsk and Tula factories (newly created factory No. From 22 June 1941 until 22 September 1941, 3,135 sniper rifles had been lost. It ended his career and he was discharged from the military at the end of the war.A nice illustration of this is a report from October 1941, which shows that three armies (15 Divisions) of the North-Eastern front had only 89 sniper rifles instead of the 3,330 that they should have according to doctrine. This was his twelfth major wound during combat and made him spend months in hospital recovering from it. On June 23, 1944, Sergeant Okhlopkov was hit in the chest while participating in an assault at Vitebsk in Belarus and was almost killed. Okhlopkov achieved well over 1,000 enemy kills in total using any type of weapon. ![]() His commander would often sent him out alone with automatic weapons to repulse enemy attacks and the Yakut eliminated the Germans like a farmer cutting the grass with a scythe. An infuriated Fyodor swore to avenge his brother’s death and went on to achieve 429 kills as a sniper and more with a machine gun. It is said that, Fyodor and his brother were both enlisted in the Soviet Red Army together. He was an ethnic Yakut, born in the Krest-Khaldzhay village in the Sakha Republic in Far Eastern Soviet Union. (7) Fyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov, Yakut (Sakha, Russia) Sergeant (1908 to 1968), 429 Kills:įyodor Matveyevich Okhlopkov was a revered Soviet sniper with 429 WWII kills. ![]()
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