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US special operations forces are searching for a new extreme long-range rifle for their next big fight as Ukraine shows the damage that snipers can do
Business Insider ^
| 1/28/2024
| Stavros Atlamazoglou
Posted on 01/28/2024 6:23:20 PM PST by logi_cal869
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It's a shame they won't get any assist from Marine Scout Sniper teams...
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To: logi_cal869
I would have thought drones would have had a major impact on sniper effectiveness.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:28:18 PM PST
by
hardspunned
(Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
To: logi_cal869
Ukraine shows?
We’ve known that snipers were a force multiplier since at least the civil war. In GWOT oursnipers racked up crazy numbers. Russians on the Eastern Front did too.
Hathcock still the GOAT!
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:28:56 PM PST
by
Levy78
(Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
To: hardspunned
It’s involved, but if you’re stationary, you can cloak yourself to drone tech. Moving is another story.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:29:53 PM PST
by
Levy78
(Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
To: hardspunned
I would have thought drones would have had a major impact on sniper effectiveness.Our ships are having a hard time defending against them. We have anti-missile systems but it's too expensive to defend against cheap drones.
To: logi_cal869
Why would they need a longer range rifle when they can just use a low tech longer range drone.
The skill level of a master sniper is way higher than the skill level of a drone operator.
The drone not only does its job but also takes pictures of it while its doing its job.
A sniper can shoot for up to a mile. But the cheap drones can go several miles.
they can be pretty cheap to make.
The drone war in ukraine is shifting the way people think about everything in battle.
Both the Ukes and the Rus are using them effectively.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:31:09 PM PST
by
ckilmer
To: logi_cal869
News Story #1) The Secret Service can no longer wear red ties, because Trump wears red ties.
News Story #2) Snipers are extremely effective at very long-range.
To: logi_cal869
I understand that 16 inch guns have a pretty long range.
To: logi_cal869
They could pick off cartel runners and coyotes on the US border.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:35:54 PM PST
by
Karliner
(Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
To: logi_cal869
nope so they can shoot preppers and rural folks that wont get with the program
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:36:10 PM PST
by
al baby
(I know sarcasm )
To: Levy78
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:37:49 PM PST
by
SharpenedEdge
(Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
To: hardspunned
Sniper could easily shoot down a drone.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:38:08 PM PST
by
for-q-clinton
(Cancel Culture IS fascism...Let's start calling it that!)
To: SharpenedEdge
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:38:56 PM PST
by
SharpenedEdge
(Stockpile. Prepare. Arm. Train. A Storm is coming.)
To: Levy78
a force multiplier since at least the civil war.Saratoga, Revolutionary War.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:39:08 PM PST
by
Mogger
(Are)
To: SharpenedEdge
Yep. Know his story well. An absolute beast.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:39:33 PM PST
by
Levy78
(Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
To: logi_cal869
...as the war in Ukraine has shown the damage that snipers can do, the impact they can have on the battlefield.What the..? I think this has been known long before this Ukrainian cluster f***. Certainly the Russians learned it at Stalingrad and afterwards.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:40:05 PM PST
by
Rummyfan
(In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man.)
To: MinorityRepublican
(Our ships are having a hard time defending against them)
Reminds me of the Nazis Battleship Bismarck trying to defend itself against the much slower British Swordfish torpedo bi-planes attacking it. Her new automatic anti-aircraft guns couldn’t zero in on them. Eventually one lucky Swordfish got off a torpedo that struck her rudder and the rest is history.
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:42:39 PM PST
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
To: logi_cal869
To: Rummyfan
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posted on
01/28/2024 6:43:58 PM PST
by
Macho MAGA Man
(The last two weren't balloons. One was a cylindrical objects Trump is being given the Alex Jones tr)
To: Macho MAGA Man
Yeah. So we need to build motherships with drones on them. New age of Naval warfare.
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