Posted on 12/07/2023 7:20:02 AM PST by ShadowAce
Mr Kovalskiy waited for hours in freezing temperatures before he shot the target
The Ukrainian sniper who killed a Russian soldier from a record 3.8 kilometres (around 2.3 miles) is a 58-year-old ex-businessman, Vyacheslav Kovalskiy. The shot by Mr. Kovalskiy, spanning 12,468 feet, covered a distance greater than that of two Brooklyn Bridges in approximately 9 seconds, ultimately resulting in the death of the enemy soldier.
"I was thinking that Russians would now know that is what Ukrainians are capable of," the previously unidentified sniper told The Wall Street Journal in his first media interview.
"Let them sit at home and be afraid."
The sniper and his "spotter" initially observed Russian soldiers cutting wood but considered them too low-ranking to shoot. Moments later, he noticed a group of other soldiers and one of them was an officer giving orders.
Mr Kovalskiy waited for hours in freezing temperatures before he shot the target nearly 3.8 km away.
"You can," his spotter instructed him.
After the colleague gave him the go-ahead, the sniper measured the distance and specialist software and meteorological data to calculate the effects of the wind, humidity, temperature and even the curvature of the Earth.
After a test shot, they figured that they had gotten the wind speed wrong. The sniper reset, reloaded and fired his bullet- half a foot long at 6.2 inches - at a speed of 960 mph.
"You have to [shoot] immediately because the wind changes constantly," Kovalskiy explained to the outlet.
The footage which went viral earlier showed one of the Russian soldiers dropping to the ground after the Ukrainian sniper took the long-distance shot.
The media outlet reported that the sniper was already packing up his rifle before it was even confirmed that he had hit his target.
Kovalskiy and Ukraine say the shot set a new sniping distance record, breaking the previously acknowledged mark by more than 850 feet.
However, some in the sharpshooting community said that they are still sceptical of the alleged feat.
"For conventional sniping, there are so many variables that are hard to quantify, so the reality is anything over about 1,300 meters [about 4,265 feet] can be more luck than skill," said Steve Walsh, a former US Marines sniper instructor.
US ballistics expert Brad Millard told the paper that the 9-second timing of the shot's trajectory in the video was accurate.
According to Metro, the sniper broke the previous record held by a Canadian special forces sniper who shot at a distance of 3.54 kilometres in Iraq in 2017. British sniper Craig Harrison also held the title after he killed a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2009, from a distance of 2.48 kilometres.
Only 600,000 left to go
And then he played 18 holes of golf and scored 16 holes in one! The propaganda is getting comical.
I’m not expert, but he fired a test shot at the same range? How do you do that without tipping off the enemy?
Then it says he was packing up during the 9 seconds it took the final shot to hit his target. But he didn’t pack up during the test shot?
I bet the Ghost of Kyiv and him hang out all the time swapping war stories.
Ghost of Kiev’s brother.
“Who wants to send a message to Ukraine?”
If that’s all it takes, the 2017 Vegas shooter should be King of the World.
Nah, 16 holes with 18 holes in one.
A 9 second flight time yields about a 325 ft drop.
Throwing rocks.
Any confirmation that the victim was actually the intended target? I'd think that might be important.
Sure he did.
At that distance, how,many different direction cross winds to the target were there? How does the spotter factor all of them in? How,can he even onow how many different directional changes to the wind happen in that distance?
Why would he pack up before the hit was confirmed? (I suppose he “might have” thinking that even a miss would alert the soldiers to the presence of a snapper in the area, but it says a “test shot” was taken at that distance, and apparently that shot didn’t alert anyone?)
>> the presence of a snapper in the area
The story indeed seems fishy
Lovely humor. And here's a little look into why you found that quote:
From NDTV's article -- "According to Metro...." Metro is a UK tabloid. So this article is essentially re-packaging. But by whom?So Adani's New Delhi Television used a US registrar and uses a US privacy company to operate its "subsidiary" which, in this case, re-wrote a Brit tabloid's "news." Yeah for paraphrasing!Domain: ndtv.com
Registrar: Network Solutions, LLC
Registered On: 1996-09-26
Registrant Contact: PERFECT PRIVACY, LLC
Street: 5335 Gate Parkway care of Network Solutions PO Box 459
City: Jacksonville
State: FLThe registrar is Network Solutions, LLC , an American-based technology company and a subsidiary of Web.com ( 5335 Gate Pkwy, Jacksonville, FL 32256, U.S.A. )
Meanwhile: "New Delhi Television is a subsidiary of AMG Media Networks Limited, an Adani Group Company."
And Adani? It's the BIG FISH.
Adani Group is an Indian multinational conglomerate, headquartered in Ahmedabad.
A media version of the kid game, Chinese whispers. Gets "better" with the retelling.
Here's the original....
Sniper's Lord of the Horizon rifle ‘takes out Russian soldier from 2.5 miles’
And in the original one reads... "Kyiv’s security service told Ukrainian media...."
So SBU to Ukrainian media to Metro in the UK to NDTV, Indian operating with a US host, and then posted on Free Republic.
Another Clown World fable for Alex Christoforou and The Duran.
Lol- autocorrect strikes again
"Only pro Russian propaganda is allowed, comrade."/sarc
Sbould have been ‘snipper’
lol yup
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