The developer said that the new Astarta rifle surpasses the American ones in accuracy
The new rifle from the holding "High-precision complexes" of Rostec MTs572 "Astarta" is many times superior to the American Barrett rifles in terms of accuracy. Vitaly Bulgakov, Deputy Managing Director of JSC "KBP" (part of the "High Precision Systems"), told reporters about this at the "Army" forum.
"The rifle is self-loading, but it allows you to achieve high accuracy: a group of five shots - [hit spread] 1.5 cm from 100 m. <...> The American Barrett rifle showed an average hit group of 6 cm in tests. That is, we surpassed the Americans by several times ", he stated.
According to him, the new Astarta sniper rifle showed unique accuracy during tests. "This rifle in our first tests showed groups of five shots of 1.5 cm - this is unique. From a distance of 100 m. Considering that the caliber here is 12.7, this means that the bullet flew into one hole. One after the other," he said.