“ ... the true challenge here was being able to calculate the actual wind speed and direction all the way to the target.” — - Ryan Cleckner, former U.S. Army Ranger sniper
They mention using Kestrel meters. You can get Kestrel weather meters with integrated applied ballistics and data communications links that look pretty interesting.
Not hard to imagine a few of these sprinkled (or droned) along a proposed trajectory to inform the sniper’s second of the conditions “all the way to the target”.
Bob Lee Swagger: Where are we meeting?
Colonel Isaac Johnson: Somewhere where I can see you coming from a god damned long way off.
Now we have made them mad. Just when we were making progress by being understanding of the religion of pieces.
Nice! Good shot mate!
Shoud have been an armor-piercing incendiery tracer... :)