Posted on 01/05/2024 4:39:55 AM PST by Twotone
If ever confirmed, wow.
What sort of optics can see the target at that range?
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Sometimes you want to reach out and touch someone.
They probably can’t. Ukraine is known for Ghost of Kiev type bragging.
Sounds like they used 50 BMG as the parent cartridge and lengthened the case. Just like the .38/.357 magnum.
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Video of the shot , many seconds go by before hit
Vyacheslav Kovalskiy killed a Russian soldier from a record 3.8 kilometres with sniper rifle, claimed the world record for the longest sniper kill.
https://rumble.com/v459e33-vyacheslav-kovalskiy-claimed-the-world-record-for-the-longest-sniper-kill.html
Search rifle scopes,there are some fantastic ones available for a few hundred dollars.
I can’t accept this as anything but luck.
Keep telling yourself that ...
It’s the Ghost of Ukraineeeee
I killed someone with no significant tactical or military objective, I must be a hero.
You people need to wake up and stop supporting this Ukraine grit ...wasting tax payer money for Military industrial complex(this is part of their propaganda to suck people in)
This war will end with a negotiated settlement and could have been avoided with same settlement at start ...but the grift must happen because of corrupt and degenerate leaders who are truly deluded.
Dang - just quietly enjoying some falafel and snap! you are looking at 72 Virginians ...
I posted this for the gun people on FR. I don’t support the war in the Ukraine.
. A few hundred? Good German glass, like Zeiss, Steiner, ZCO - will set you back 3- $4000. And I don’t know that even this could site in a target 3500 meters away.
The longer the shot, the more luck plays in it. That is what makes it fun.
I see two people go down at the same time. Also see two moving after they are down. My first thought without doing the math is that it was unsuppressed and both heard the sound and dropped. Had it been one getting hit, the other would have delayed in his reaction just enough to be noticeable. Also can’t see any huge misting effects but the video is very blurry. I wouldn’t call it a ‘kill’.....but rather a hit.
I have looked downrange through MANY different ‘rifle scopes’.
Never seen any that could ID a human target AND hit it at 2.5 miles.
Consider the Abrams M1-A2 has a maximum effective range of ~3000 meters. The best in the world. So ... Ukraine has a ‘rifle’ and optics system that can range out nearly as far?
Color me skeptical.
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