![]() ![]() ![]() Among the elite selected, the Baku native Serdyukov, an alumnus of the Tula Polytechnic Institute, was chosen to run the VSS Vintorez project. The need for such a weapon arose in the 1970s, and in 1972, the Soviet command established a special development group at TsNIITochMash. Both designs were the creation of Pyotr Serdyukov at the Central Research Institute of Precision engineering (TsNIITochMash) in Klimovsk. ![]() The Soviet Union’s answer in 1987 was the VSS Vintorez (Special Sniper rifle) and the assault variant, the AS Val (Special Automatic rifle). These changes contributed to the ever growing need for body-armor-defeating weaponry paired with a diminished sound signature, packaged in both a sniper rifle and an assault rifle. Terrorist threats were quickly spreading from the Middle East during the Afghan War and affecting urban areas. Organized crime and terrorist cells had adopted body armor use alongside its growing use by conventional fighting forces. In the mid-1980s, the Soviet Union was engaged in a silent battle. The VSS Vintorez and AS Val display at the Tula State Museum of Weapons. ![]()
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