Try "the general" is a really brazen liar, confident in the knowledge that he won't get called on his lies by the liberal anti-gun media. The more recent ZPU-4 using 14.5x114 WHICH IS TWICE AS POWERFUL AS THE BMG .50 ROUND, has an effective altitude of 1400meters and a max EFFECTIVE range of 2200 meters - about 1 1/3 miles
WHen I was a kid, the common belief was that a 22 long rifle was theoretically capable of killing a man from a distance of one mile. Of course, your rifle had to be elevated to approx 40 degrees obove horizontal and there’s no way to aim. BUT IN THEORY...
So I guess we’d better round up all the 22s out there and stop selling them to the general public.