Posted on 01/05/2024 4:39:55 AM PST by Twotone
“An experimental weapon, with experimental
ammunition…Let’s experiment.”
— British actor Alan Rickman,
Quigley Down Under, 1990.
At high noon on November 18, 2023, 58-year-old Vyacheslav Kovalskiy, a Ukrainian sniper assigned to the Sluzhba Bezpeky Ukrainy (Security Service of Ukraine, or SBU) Special Group “Alpha,” an elite, special operations, or SpetsNaz, unit, broke the existing world record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in history, at a mind-boggling 3,800 meters (2.36 miles!) near Kherson, Ukraine. The previous record was held by a Canadian JTF2 counterterrorist unit sniper in Iraq, at 3,540 meters (2.2 miles) in May 2017, with a McMillan TAC-50A1 (C15A1 in Canadian service) rifle.
The SBU press office announced on November 19, 2023, that, “The SBU sniper set a world record. He hit a Russian soldier (an officer) from an incredible distance. SBU snipers are changing the rules of world sniping, demonstrating the ability to work effectively at fantastic distances.” The SBU added that the shot had broken the previous world record by approximately 260 meters (just over 850 feet).
The massive, six-foot-long sniper rifle that achieved this significant milestone was the Ukrainian-made, MAYAK Volodar Obriyu (“Horizon’s Lord”), bolt-action, single-shot, anti-matériel rifle, chambered in 12.7x114mm HL (the HL stands for Horizon’s Lord, indicating a unique and proprietary cartridge). This brand-new (since 2021) weapon was specifically developed due to a “need for an anti-matériel and sniper weapon system that would have a longer effective range and flatter trajectories than the rifles chambered in .50 BMG (12.7x99mm NATO).”
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Propaganda. Pure BS.
Many. They just cost more than your typical hunting scope. I shoot well over 2k yards with a 17 power US Optics.
The projectile slows to subsonic down range. At great distances,tbe sound could catch up. Up closer,the round snaps as it goes by,breaking the sound barrierike tbe end of a whip. If not a brain shot,you hear it.
As a long range guy, there is some involved, but there are a few things you can do to put it more in your favour.
It could of already been over except the UK and US sabotaged the talks.
> The projectile slows to subsonic down range
The time of travel was given to us in this article. Nine seconds. Sound in air would take around a bit over twelve seconds.
Also the ballistic estimate I posted shows it being supersonic at range. I actually made a pessimistic assumption about the BC of the projectile.
I think you’re reading it correctly. It would probably be a bit less since the projectile (which as far as I can tell is not discussed at all other than caliber) is the secret sauce here. But the sauce can only get so hot.
> armchair speculation
I think you have your armchair in the right ballpark. Nice comfy seat to watch the game!
They learned that from Ruzzzzzia.
Not as impressive as aborting your own kid in the womb bucket.
Maybe, but it is just Ukraine doing the bragging when they are losing because they want the US taxpayer dollars to keep flowing.
Jim Spinella pings a target 4,549 yards, or 2.58 mil
Nobody feels lucky with that guy around.
Carlos Habcock gives hat tip
That’s what’s strange.
Ghost of Kherson?
It was a nice result for the shooter.
Regards the ballistics, muzzle velocity is some 3200ft/sec, if in vacuum would reach target in 3.5 sec.
Since there is friction with air, takes 9 seconds, at that rate of deceleration, at 11600 ft it is approximately 1000ft/sec, this is a mean, the actual is probably a sharper drop terminally.
The sound at 1100 ft/sec would take 10.5 sec, so bullet impact is still 1.5 sec prior to the sound arriving, but it was catching up. Might actually lead the targets (still able to hear) into thinking the shooter was closer.
I have a difficult time hitting paper at 1000 yds.
Lighting one off and waiting 9 seconds for impact, knowing that I launched a flat shooter which looks like biden's poll numbers on the other end, a few words to my favorite diety would be in order.
That Aussie on YouTube hits stuff way off
https://youtu.be/7owwTz7Z0OE?si=SGT6T6coQLdYPN7T
5023 yards
“QUIGLEY” is one of my favorite movies-—
BUT how can you go wrong with Tom Selleck???
“Hunt For Red October” is another.
PS-—THERE IS ONLY ONE ‘MAGNUM”. PERIOD
> I have a difficult time hitting paper at 1000 yds.
You’re ahead of me! Thanks for your thoughtful reply!
> QUIGLEY
Recommended!
> sound at 1100 ft/sec
That is the number I use for quick calcs. We would have to research likely air temperature and humdity to get closer. 1086 might be a slightly better number. I came up with 12.x seconds, but we’ve estabished that the projectile beat the air compression wave to the unfortunate.
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