Posted on 01/28/2024 6:23:20 PM PST by logi_cal869
Ask any soldier, and they'll tell you that there are fewer scarier things on a battlefield than an enemy sniper. The combination of the unknown with the actual danger elevates snipers to some of the most hated figures in warfare.
But snipers are force multipliers, more so when it comes to special operations. Army Rangers, Navy SEALs, Marine Raiders, and Green Berets fight in small numbers, and the snipers within their ranks play a key role. In a team of 12-16 commandos, many will be sniper-qualified, thus maximizing the firepower of the group.
US special operations forces are now looking for a new, extreme long-range rifle for their next big fight, a possible high-intensity conflict, as the war in Ukraine has shown the damage that snipers can do, the impact they can have on the battlefield.
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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.
Exactly what I thought
Drone flyers with firing weapons on them or bombs are a new kind of sniper. A flyper, maybe.
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.
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.
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.
“Hathcock still the GOAT!”
Long Trang
>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.
Now imagine a cruise missile flying along and deploying drones the same way they deploy cluster munitions.
“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.
not if they run the drones in a serpentine pattern (From a peter falk movie- can’t remember name right now)
Hope they find gun that can be handled by limp-wristed trannies. Diversity, inclusion and equity (DIE).
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-
The In-Laws (1979 film)
ah yep- that’s the one- funny movie-
Use the southern border invaders for target practice.
Fragging is a lost art.
They couldn’t operate in those tunnels.
Hopefully their next big fight is south of the Rio Grande.
The American sniper of the Vietnam War with the most kills never gets mentioned.
>They couldn’t operate in those tunnels.<
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