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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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To: Disambiguator
I understand that 16 inch guns have a pretty long range.

The "sniper" weapon of the present (not even the future) is where a spotter picks out a target and someone from a distance away either drops a bomb, launches a shell, or sends in a remote drone.

41 posted on 01/28/2024 7:17:13 PM PST by T.B. Yoits
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To: hardspunned

Exactly what I thought

Drone flyers with firing weapons on them or bombs are a new kind of sniper. A flyper, maybe.


42 posted on 01/28/2024 7:17:46 PM PST by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; not averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: qaz123

Yes. Not taking anything away from these guys (and girls) but they had an insanely target rich environment with basically zero ROEs imposed on them.


43 posted on 01/28/2024 7:20:43 PM PST by Levy78 (Reject modernity, embrace tradition. )
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To: Secret Agent Man

I bet squads are no longer carrying small mortars. It’s very unnerving watching the footage from these killer drones as they track right down into the trench with the enemy. You also see drone footage from the drone attacks upon the drone operators on and around the battlefield. I’d think an AWACS drone for the numerous drones in operation.


44 posted on 01/28/2024 7:25:09 PM PST by hardspunned (Former DC GOP globalist stooge)
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To: logi_cal869

This is the biggest load of rubbish I’ve ever read. Military types have always known the damage snipers can do. Geez. That was until the RATS on Capistol Hill came up with the idea about an ROE that requires snipers to have a spotter on the phone with some dumbass legal bozo sitting on his ass in an office back in the U.S. who makes the decision whether the sniper is allowed to take out the scumbag or not.


45 posted on 01/28/2024 7:28:55 PM PST by FlingWingFlyer ( Joe Pedo's America! The Motel 6 to the world. Joe's Border Patrol will keep the light on for you.)
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To: Levy78

“Hathcock still the GOAT!”

Long Trang


46 posted on 01/28/2024 7:29:24 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: hardspunned

>It’s very unnerving watching the footage from these killer drones as they track right down into the trench with the enemy.<

Too bad we didn’t have drones to flush out the Cu Chi Tunnels.


47 posted on 01/28/2024 7:34:33 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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To: MinorityRepublican

Now imagine a cruise missile flying along and deploying drones the same way they deploy cluster munitions.


48 posted on 01/28/2024 7:35:06 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism. )
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To: for-q-clinton

“Sniper could easily shoot down a drone.”


How about several drones at once ?

In Ukraine they are using commercial drones at a few hundred per drone, plus a grenade.

vs. some guy on the ground, even a super sniper, it’s just a lop sided match where super-sniper doesn’t have line of sight on the guys attacking him.


49 posted on 01/28/2024 7:36:38 PM PST by Reverend Wright ( Everything touched by progressives, dies !)
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To: for-q-clinton

not if they run the drones in a serpentine pattern (From a peter falk movie- can’t remember name right now)


50 posted on 01/28/2024 7:39:55 PM PST by Bob434
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To: logi_cal869

Hope they find gun that can be handled by limp-wristed trannies. Diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).


51 posted on 01/28/2024 7:44:18 PM PST by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: logi_cal869

one of the alphabet news media during the gulf war was giving away OUR military’s sniper positions, and when asked to stop because it was risking gettign them killed, they refused- They also pulled some other disgraceful traitorous crap durign the war too-


52 posted on 01/28/2024 7:44:20 PM PST by Bob434
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To: Bob434

The In-Laws (1979 film)


53 posted on 01/28/2024 7:47:22 PM PST by Farmerbob
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To: Farmerbob

ah yep- that’s the one- funny movie-


54 posted on 01/28/2024 7:48:49 PM PST by Bob434
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To: logi_cal869

Use the southern border invaders for target practice.


55 posted on 01/28/2024 7:53:11 PM PST by Wdempsey (Democrats and slinkys.. Both useless but fun to push down stairs.)
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To: Bob434

Fragging is a lost art.


56 posted on 01/28/2024 7:57:57 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 /!i!! &@$%&*(@ -)
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To: bimboeruption

They couldn’t operate in those tunnels.


57 posted on 01/28/2024 8:00:21 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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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

Hopefully their next big fight is south of the Rio Grande.

58 posted on 01/28/2024 8:01:01 PM PST by Jim Noble (Assez de mensonges et de phrases)
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To: logi_cal869

The American sniper of the Vietnam War with the most kills never gets mentioned.


59 posted on 01/28/2024 8:02:32 PM PST by ansel12 ((NATO warrior under Reagan, and RA under Nixon, bemoaning the pro-Russians from Vietnam to Ukraine.))
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>They couldn’t operate in those tunnels.<

https://www.lumicopter.com/post/transforming-tunnel-inspection-with-drones-enhancing-safety-and-efficiency


60 posted on 01/28/2024 8:04:39 PM PST by bimboeruption (“Less propaganda would be appreciated.” JimRob 12-2-2023)
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