SVD Dragunov

Note: Before adding to this list, make sure you have checked FPK / PSL Sniper Rifle. The FPK, PSL or Romak is a Romanian AK-derived sniper rifle sometimes used as an ersatz SVD in movies, so an entry which appears to be omitted from this page may well be on that one.

The SVD Dragunov sniper rifle and variants have appeared in the following films, video games and anime, used by the following actors:

SVD Dragunov

SVD Dragunov sniper rifle - 7.62x54mm R

SVDS rifle with shortened barrel and folding stock, intended for paratroopers - 7.62x54mm R

Commercial "Tiger Carbine" (aka "Dragunov Tiger") version sold in the US, with synthetic furnishings used on domestic SVD-M modernized variant - 7.62x54mm R. More recent Tiger versions have a completely smooth receiver cover.

Specifications

(1963 - present)

• Type: Designated Marksman Rifle

• Caliber: 7.62×54mm R

• Weight: 9.48 lb (4.30 kg)

• Length: 48.2 in (122.5 cm)

• Barrel length(s): 24.0 in( 61 cm)

• Capacity: 10, 5 round magazines provided with some export versions, rare 20 and 30 round magazines made for SVU-A series

• Fire Modes: Semi-Auto

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Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Northern Limit Line		Sniper on Korean People's Navy Patrol Boat		2015
American Sniper	Sammy Sheik	Mustafa		2014
R2B: Return to Base		North Korean soldier		2012
August. Eighth	Sergey Nazarov	Seryoga		2012
5 Days of War	Mikko Nousiainen	Daniil		2011
Steve Niles' Remains		rouge Army soldier	SVD-M	2011
Home (Dom)	Nickolay Molochkov	Yazva	Izhmash Tigr (civilian version of SVD)	2011
A Quiet Outpost (Tikhaya zastava)	Yuri Konovalov	Sgt. Durov		2011
A Yakuza's Daughter Never Cries	Isao Karasawa	Assassin	Izhmash Tigr (civilian version of SVD)	2010
The Sniper	Huang Xiaoming	Ching	Norinco Type 85	2009
X-Men Origins: Wolverine	Daniel Henney	Agent Zero		2009
Babylon A.D.		A security guard		2008
Crossfire (Les Insoumis)			In the warehouse of weapons	2008
Captive (Plennyy)	Pyotr Logachev	Vovka		2008
Captive (Plennyy)		Russian soldiers; Chechen fighters	SVD and SVD-S	2008
Hitman		An assassin		2007
The Kingdom			Seen in the background	2007
Mission: Impossible III		Davian's man		2006
Stealth	Jason Lee	Colonel Yune	Can be Norinco NDM-86	2005
9th Company	Konstantin Kryukov	Giaconda Petrovsky		2005
Typhoon	David Lee McInnis	Somchai	With suppressor	2005
Dragon Squad	Yu Xia	Luo Zai-Jun		2005
Moscow Heat			Seen in the pile of weapons	2004
Battle Royale II: Requiem	Natsuki Kato	Saki Sakurai		2003
LOC Kargil		Indian soldiers		2003
Bad Company	Gabriel Macht	Seale		2002
War (Voyna)		Chechen rebel		2002
Avalon	Malgorzata Foremniak	Ash		2001
Spy Game		Lebanese fighter		2001
Behind Enemy Lines		Serbian soldiers		2001
Black Hawk Down			Seen in the background	2001
Lion's Share (Lvinaya dolya)		OMON snipers		2001
Proof of Life		Russian soldiers		2000
Flickering Lights	Søren Pilmark	Torkild		2000
The Boondock Saints			Seen in the background	1999
The Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment	Mikhail Ulyanov	Ivan Fyodorovich	With a sound suppressor	1999
Demons of War	Boguslaw Linda	Maj. Edward Keller		1998
Demons of War	Artur Zmijewski	Sgt. Biniek		1998
Checkpoint (Blokpost)	Kirill Ulyanov	"Professor"		1998
Checkpoint (Blokpost)	Roman Romantsov	"Bones"		1998
Hard Rain	Michael A. Goorjian	Kenny		1998
G.I. Jane	Viggo Mortensen	Master Chief Urgayle		1997
Jackie Chan's First Strike		Hitman		1996
Prisoner of the Mountains (Kavkazskiy plennik)		Russian soldiers and Chechen fighters		1996
Crying Freeman	Byron Mann	Koh		1995
Hidden Assassin	John Ashton	Alex Reed	with laser and suppressor	1995
Hidden Assassin	Dolph Lundgren	Michael Dane	with laser and suppressor	1995
Goldeneye		Soviet Soldier		1995
Sniper	Edward Wiley	DeSilva		1993
Sniper	Raj Sidhu	Enemy sniper in barn		1993
The Bay of Death (Bukhta smerti)	Vladimir Levitsky	Fedya		1991
Rabid Bus (Vzbesivshiysya avtobus)		OMON troopers		1990
The Beast of War		Soviet soldier		1988
Rambo 3	Sylvester Stallone	John Rambo	Can be Norinco NDM-86	1988

Television

Show Title	Actor	Character	Note/Episode	Air Date
The Lost Gate (Ztracená brána)	Jirí Langmajer	Zábranský		2012
Strike Back: Project Dawn	Phillip Winchester	Sgt. Michael Stonebridge	With polymer furniture and bipod	2011
Criminal Minds	Matt Ryan	FBI SSA Mick Rawson	With bipod / "The Fight" (S5E18)	2010
The Border	Jim Codrington	Darnell Williams	"Blowback"	2008-2010
Black and White	Tang Guo Zhong	Che Jin	Episode 14	2009
Branch (Expozitura)		Police sniper	3rd/ "Hadí střela"	2009
Iris - Season 1	So-yeon Kim	Kim Seon-hwa		2009
Burn Notice				2007-
The Storm Gate			some with wooden furniture and some with polymer furniture and new flash muzzle brake	2006
I Have The Honor! (Chest Imeyu!)		Russian paratroopers		2004
Purgatory (Chistilishche)	Irina Veselin and Victoria Matveeva	the "White Tights"		1998
Seven Days	???	Snipers, Serbian soldiers	"Shadow Play,Daddy's Girl"	1998-2001
Soldier Soldier (TV series)				1991-1997
Tour of Duty	???	NVA Soldiers		1987-1990
The Last Ship		Thorwald's men	"Fight the Ship" (S2E02)	2015
The Man in the High Castle	Lee Shorten	Sgt. Yoshida		2015

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
7.62 High Calibre	Dragunov SVD and Dragunov SVD-S	bayonet, bipod, laser module, flahlight module, PSO1-M2 optical scope and 1PN93-4 night sight	the SVD-S features a side-folding stock	2008
The Sum Of All Fears	"SVD"			2002
Conflict: Desert Storm				2002
Operation Flashpoint		w/ camouflage		2001
Freedom Fighters	Sniper Rifle		with incorrect 7-round magazine	2003
Max Payne 2: The Fall of Max Payne			not usable	2003
Hitman: Blood Money				2006
Hitman 2: Silent Assassin	SVD Rifle			2002
Hitman: Contracts				2004
Alliance of Valiant Arms		With SVD-M synthetic furniture		2007
Blacksite: Area 51			not usable	2007
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl	SVDm2			2007
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky	SVDm2			2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Call Of Pripyat	SVDm2			2009
Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater				2004
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories			with incorrect 7-round magazine	2006
Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns Of The Patriots				2008
Battlefield: Vietnam				2004
Battlefield 2		With synthetic handguard		2005
Project Reality		With synthetic & wood furniture, bipod, and optional PSO-1 scope		2005
Project IGI: I'm Going In		w/ suppressor		2000
Project IGI 2: Covert Strike				2003
Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare				2007
Insurgency	Al-Kadesiah		Al-Kadesiah (Iraqi SVD clone)	2007
Delta Force: Xtreme 2				2010
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2			Available only in Campaign mode and Museum level	2009
Resident Evil 5				2009
Vietcong				2003
Vietcong 2				2005
Elite Warriors Vietnam				2005
ArmA: Armed Assault				2007
ArmA II				2009
Close Combat: First to Fight	Sniper Rifle			2005
Uncharted: Drake's Fortune	Dragon Sniper Rifle			2007
Command & Conquer: Red Alert 3			fake replica	2008
Far Cry 2		w/ an early M16-style three-point open-front flash hider and the magazine and forend holes of an FPK / PSL		2008
Combat Arms		Dragunov-S Tiger version available		2004
Counter-Strike Online		Now also has carbine mode in Zombie 3(a part of the "Hero's weapon" with m203 grenade launcher)(w/ 20-round magazine)		2007
Shadow Ops: Red Mercury		With optional silencer		2004
Call of Duty: Black Ops		With optional silencer, NPSU night-vision scope, or PSO-1 & PK-AV scopes		2010
SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3	SAS-R			2010
GoldenEye 007 (2010)	Pavlov ASR	With optional thermal scope and suppressor		2010
Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker	SVD		w/ various upgrades	2010
Medal of Honor (2010)	Dragunov SVD		single-player only	2010
Army of Two: The 40th Day	SVD	Can be fitted with a variety of stocks, barrels, magazines, scopes, suppressors/muzzle brakes		2010
Sniper: Ghost Warrior				2010
NCIS: The Video Game			on poster	2011
War Inc. Battlezone				2011
Far Cry 3	SVD		Visually SVD but most paint schemes make furnishings synthetic	2012
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3	Dragunov		SVD-M, w/ black synthetic furniture	2011
Karma Online				2011
Rogue Warrior	DRAGUNOV	With PSL magazine and magazine release	Strange rail-top scope bracket with non-standard scope	2009
Resident Evil: The Mercenaries 3D				2011
Jagged Alliance: Back in Action	Druganoff	based on an airsoft AK-47 with SVD conversion kit	holds 20 rounds of 7.62x39mm	2012
Arctic Combat				2012
Call of Duty: Black Ops II				2012
Sniper: Ghost Warrior 2	SVD Dragunov			2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts			SVD-M, w/ black synthetic furniture	2013
Ghost Recon: Phantoms	SVD		custom	2014
Watch_Dogs	SVD		SVD-M	2014
Survarium				2014
DayZ	SVD		SVD-M	2013
Contract Wars			SVD-S	2014

Anime

Character	Title	Notation	Date
Metropolis	Anti-Robot Fighter		2001
Gunslinger Girl	Rico		2003-2004
Full Metal Panic!: The Second Raid	"Wraith"		2005
Black Lagoon	Balalaika		2006
When They Cry	Kasai		2006
Ga-rei: Zero	Supernatural Disaster Countermeasures Division operative		2008
Gunslinger Girl: Il Teatrino	Rico		2008
Asobi ni Ikuyo!			2010
Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky	Aoi	Dragunov-S	2010
Asobi ni Ikuyo: Bombshells from the Sky	Assasins	Fitted with black synthetic handguard, bipod, NSPUM-2 sight and IR laser	2010
Aria the Scarlet Ammo	Reki	with PSO-1 telescopic sight	2011
Sword Art Online II		As a HUD icon	2014

SVU Dragunov

SVU Dragunov - 7.62x54mm R

SVU Dragunov modernized with black furniture and a bipod - 7.62x54mm R

SVU-A Dragunov - 7.62x54mm R. Note 3-position fire-selector.

SVU-AS Dragunov with its bipod - 7.62x54mm R. Note 3-position fire-selector.

The SVU (also known as "OTs-03") is the bullpup version of the SVD, developed by TsKIB SOO for Russian special forces. The SVU-A (OTs-03A) is another variant, capable of fully automatic fire, while the SVU-AS (OTs-03AS) is equipped with a bipod. The SVU was introduced in 1991, and entered service three years later, the SVU-A was introduced in 1995.

Films

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
Rifleman of the Voroshilov Regiment, The	Mikhail Ulyanov	Ivan Fyodorovich		1999
Checkpoint (Blokpost)	Anastasia Razhuk	Masha		1999

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl	SVUmk2			2007
7.62 High Calibre	Dragunov SVU-A	w/ bipod, tactical flashlight and several interchangeable sights		2008
Battlefield: Bad Company	SVU Snayperskaya Short			2008
S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Clear Sky	SVUmk2			2008
Battlefield: Bad Company 2	SVU Snayperskaya Short	w/ several interchangeable sights		2010
SOCOM: US Navy SEALs Fireteam Bravo 3	SAS-U			2010
Battlefield Play4Free	SVU-A	w/ optional tan handguard and magazine		2011
Call of Duty: Black Ops II	SVU-AS	Harris bipod (in-game model) & various attachments	Actually an SVU	2012
Splinter Cell: Blacklist	SVU			2013
Call of Duty: Ghosts	SVU	Harris bipod & various attachments		2013
Contract Wars				2014
Rainbow Six: Siege				2015

SVDK

SVDK - 9.3×64mm 7N33

Specifications

(2006 - Present)

• Type: Sniper Rifle

• Caliber: 9.3×64mm 7N33

• Weight: 6.5 kg less telescopic sight

• Length: 1250 mm

• Barrel length: 620 mm

• Feed System: 10-round detachable box magazine

• Fire Modes: Semiautomatic

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Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Notation	Release Date
Contract Wars	TKPD Storm / TKPD Sniper		2014

VS-121

Izhmash VS-121 - 7.62x54R

The VS-121 is a modern bullpup sniper rifle based on the SVD from Izhmash. It has the same barrel length as the SVD, unlike the SVU, which has a shorter barrel.

Specifications

(2011 - Present)

• Type: Sniper Rifle

• Caliber: 7.62×54mm and 7.62×51mm

• Weight: ??

• Length: ??

• Barrel length: 24.4

• Feed System: 10

• Fire Modes: Semiautomatic

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Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Notation	Release Date
ArmA III	Rahim 7.62		2013

Norinco NDM-86

The Norinco NDM-86 is a Chinese-made clone of the Soviet SVD. There are two versions; one is identical to the original Dragunov SVD (save a somewhat less "clean" finish on metal parts) and fires the 7.62x54mm R cartridge. The .308 Winchester version (7.62x51mm NATO) version has a more square shaped box magazine. The NDM-86 in 7.62x54mm R was imported between 1986-1989 into the U.S. The .308 version was imported for a longer time due to it being a different caliber than the 'military firearm'.

Norinco NDM-86 - 7.62x54mm R

Norinco NDM-86 - .308 Winchester / 7.62x51mm NATO

Film

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
The Rundown		Hatcher's Marksman	.308 version	2003

Television

Title	Actor	Character	Notation	Date
24	Michael Massee	Ira Gaines	.308 version	2001

Video Games

Game Title	Appears as	Mods	Notation	Release Date
Medal of Honor	SVD		.308 version	2010
Battlefield Play4Free	SVD	w/ optional tan handguard and stock	.308 version	2011
Battlefield 3	SVD	w/ Various optional optics, bipod, laser sight, weaponlight, foregrip, and flash hider	.308 version	2011
Dead Island: Riptide	"Semi-Auto Sniper Rifle"	with scope	.308 version	2013

How to tell an SVD from a PSL

SVD Dragunov sniper rifle - 7.62x54mm R. Shorter exposed part of gas piston, one-piece handguard, thinner bent safety lever, bayonet lug mounted on front sight, no "X" stamping on magazine, gap between magazine well and front of trigger guard, hooded front sight, top of stock in-line with bore axis.

Romanian FPK/PSL sniper rifle - 7.62x54mm R. Note longer exposed part of the gas piston, two-piece AK-style handguard, straight safety lever, bayonet lug mounted on barrel behind front sight, AK-style receiver with push-button at rear, "X" shaped stamping on the magazine, magazine located immediately in front of the trigger guard rather than some distance ahead, open front sight, diagonal stock.

See Also

• Izhevsk Machinebuilding Plant - A list of all firearms manufactured by Izhmash.
• KBP Instrument Design Bureau - A list of all firearms manufactured by KBP Instrument Design Bureau.
• Norinco - A list of all firearms manufactured by Norinco.