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To: areafiftyone
Sniper has an AK 47 on single shot!

An AK-47 is not a good sniper weapon. Supposedly we have radar systems that can trace bullets back to withing centimeters of their origin.

15 posted on 04/13/2003 2:29:39 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative (Rest in pieces Saddam!)
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To: Paleo Conservative
I cannot believe how brave these guys are.
18 posted on 04/13/2003 2:30:12 PM PDT by Bahbah (Pray for our Troops)
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To: Paleo Conservative
Maybe not but it has good range because of the heavily-jacketed round.
22 posted on 04/13/2003 2:32:25 PM PDT by AppyPappy (If You're Not A Part Of The Solution, There's Good Money To Made In Prolonging The Problem.)
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To: Paleo Conservative
"An AK-47 is not a good sniper weapon. Supposedly we have radar systems that can trace bullets back to withing centimeters of their origin."

Yup. We have artillery that can shoot 11 miles and come within 2 feet of the target. Amazing.

198 posted on 04/13/2003 4:06:47 PM PDT by blam
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To: Paleo Conservative
Supposedly we have radar systems that can trace bullets back to withing centimeters of their origin.

Not radar. Accoustic. Basically an array of mircrophones that allow you to direction find the shot, with multiple lines of bearing from different pairs of michrophones giving you the location. Problem is that they don't work very well in an urban environment, due to multiple reflections from large buildings. They work better than one might think, but still not all that well.

AK47 is an assault rifle, firing an intermediate power catridge. The AK series are not known for their high accuracy. Even the Soviet design sniper rifle, in 7.62X54R (a catridge dating to czarist times) is not nearly as accurate as what US, UK and other western forces use. Accurate enough in most military situtations though.

231 posted on 04/14/2003 8:58:28 AM PDT by El Gato
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To: Paleo Conservative
An AK-47 is not a good sniper weapon.

An AK-47 derived RPK squad automatic weapon with the longer 24-inch barrel is. So is the heavier caliber AK-variant SVD sniper's rifle designed by Yevgeniy Feodorovich Dragunov.

Either might be described as *an AK* either by unknowledgable news reporters who can't tell an AKM from an M16A2, or to a lesseer degree by a grunt infantryman who cares primarily that it's something that goes bang and is pointed in his general direction.

-archy-/-

233 posted on 04/14/2003 1:45:32 PM PDT by archy (Keep in mind that the milk of human kindness comes from a beast that is both cannibal and a vampire.)
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