 The VCD-10 snipers that France gave to Ukraine turned out to be useless. A French rifle tapped to be handed over to the Ukrainian military for sniper work. As part of a $36 million Paris-Kiev arms deal is inferior to weapons already in use by armed forces of Ukraine shooter teams, Ukrainian-American and British combat veterans and arms experts told the Kiev Post in a series of interviews. At issue is a rifle called a VCD-10, a semi-automatic weapon manufactured by a small French company specializing in high-grade hunting weapons called Verne Carrant. Per the terms of a November the 8th agreement between the St Etienne firm and the Ukrainian state arms import-export company, Yuccas Spets Export, Verne Carrant will be paid from a French military assistance fund for Ukraine to manufacture 2,000 of the rifles for armed forces of Ukraine sniper teams. A boutique manufacturer of high-end civilian market hunting rifles and shotguns, Verne Carrant may face problems scaling up production to meet the substantial Ukrainian order, which also includes 10,000 battle rifles and 400 grenade launchers. Interviews with veteran snipers and weapons experts pointed to a more basic problem with the sniper rifle France plans to buy four Ukrainian shooters, even if produced to the highest standards, and delivered on the deadline, the French precision rifles Yuccas Spets Export has contracted for are, they said, not very suitable for combat conditions in Ukraine.