Posted on 11/20/2023 3:41:13 PM PST by DUMBGRUNT
In a historic milestone, a sniper serving in Ukraine’s security service (SBU) claimed a groundbreaking world record by successfully neutralising a Russian soldier from an astounding distance of 2.36 miles.
(Excerpt) Read more at firstpost.com ...
—”beautiful piece, how much do i have to pay to get one?”
Any day now they will be for rent at a range near Las Vegas.
Moscow has been showering Ukrainian civilian infrastructure with gps guided missiles for over 1.5 years now. They think it’s a video game. Targeting civilians via computer screens...
Hopefully the terrorists in the Kremlin working right now with their allies : Islamic State of Iran and Hamas, will be jailed sooner or later. Or maybe Mossad will target the head of the Kremlin Terrorists in a more direct way...
We shall see....
Pray for peace and :
May Moscow cease to invade peaceful sovereign nations.
May the Russian colonial imperialism end.
May the Kremlin care for their own Russian people instead. Instead of slaughtering them in forever-wars, and imprisoning them for uttering a single negative word against the Kremlinist Big Government abusive manners...
Buddy of mine has a step lower multi caliber long range rifle. He can take out deer size target at 1650 yards — close to a mile. He says the scope optics and the spotter with his optics are what is critical to him. Without those two being dialed in it is useless for him
Big holster … really really really BIG holster…
With wheels…
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Uh=huh?
That’s not the gun pictured at the link.
Some of us simply appreciate the skill necessary in making such a shot; that it killed the shooter’s enemy was the shooter’s intent, and he did what he had to do. Your rush to judgment that we are “celebrating death of an individual and destruction of a country for hubris...” is just emotionalism. Get over yourself.
In New York, you’d get arrested for having it...while the Russians had just invaded Long Island.
I call BS on this... Ukrainian propaganda.
“Why are you posting this dumb stuff here celebrating death of an individual and destruction of a country for hubris...this is not a video game.”
If the Russians hadn’t started the war there’d be no one getting killed. Let them end their stupid war, leave Ukraine, and their soldiers will stop being targets for Ukrainian snipers.
In the meantime I wish the Ukrainians good hunting!
Richard Nathan Haas is an American diplomat. He was president of the Council on Foreign Relations from July 2003 to June 2023, prior to which he was director of policy planning for the United States Department of State and a close advisor to Secretary of State Colin Powell in the George W. Bush administration.
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Despite Ukraine’s much-heralded counteroffensive, Russia has actually gained more territory over the course of 2023 than Ukraine has.
The problem is that Ukraine’s military shows no signs of being able to break through Russia’s formidable defenses, no matter how long and hard it fights. Defense tends to have the advantage over offense, and Russian forces are dug in behind miles of mine fields, trenches, traps, and fortifications. The West can send more tanks, long-range missiles, and eventually F-16 fighter jets. But there is no silver bullet capable of turning the tide on the battlefield.
Time will not be on Ukraine’s side if a high-intensity war drags on indefinitely. Russia’s economy and its defense industrial base are on a war footing. Moscow is also importing arms from North Korea and Iran and has access to consumer items that contain technology that it can repurpose for military uses. Should Russia need to reinforce its military presence in Ukraine, it has a large pool of manpower on which to draw. Russia has also found new markets for its energy, while sanctions have had only a modest effect on the Russian economy. Putin appears politically secure and in control of the levers of power, from the military and security services to the media and public narrative.
The Sniper Ghost of Kiev.
Soon: Coming to a city near you.
There are a lot of long range hunters in this country. Thankfully they are law abiding citizens with a sound mind.
And that was a mighty fine engine. Some motors develop a reputation for reliability—and that was one. The chr slant 6 and ford 300/6 come to mind.
Woohoo! Since it’s not full auto it doesn’t require a tax stamp, no? I’ve never seen one at my local FFL though. Hmmmm...
“This reminds me of the Toyota Land Cruiser back in the day. The engine castings were an exact knock off of the Chevy 235 inline 6.”
The 235 was pushrod. Toyota was OHC.
Built under Chevy license.
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The F engine block, crankshaft and lower end assembly is loosely based on the 1939-63 G.M.C. L6 OHV 236 engine but with a taller deck (rather than the similar but smaller Chevrolet 1937-63 Gen-2 L6 OHV engine), and built under license. The cylinder head and combustion chamber is derived from the Chevrolet L6 OHV “Stovebolt” engine, slightly scaled up. The general idea was consumers would feel comfortable with the engine since it was a familiar design and had a proven track record. None of the bottom end of the engine is interchangeable with these engines.
Yep, and the holy grail of reliability, the Kaiser/Nash design that became the Rambler, then AMC, then Chrysler, then the Jeep fuel injected 4.0 inline 6 up until the early 2000s. :)
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