In comparison, the equipment was crude....
Posted on 08/14/2017 10:19:31 PM PDT by Strac6
A Canadian sniper set what appears to be a record, picking off an ISIS fighter from some 2.2 miles away, and disrupting a potentially deadly operation by the terror group in Iraq.
Shooting experts say the fatal shot at a world-record distance of 11,316 feet underscores how stunningly sophisticated military snipers are becoming. The feat, pulled off by a special forces sniper from Canada’s Joint Task Force 2, smashed the previous distance record for successful sniper shots by some 3,280 feet, a record set by a British sniper.
The new record was set using a McMillan TAC-50, a .50-caliber weapon and the largest shoulder-fired firearm in existence. It has more than 13,000 foot pounds of energy at the muzzle, driving a 750 grain bullet more than 3100 feet per second.
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Lean into the weapon, schmuck!
SPOTTER: Ya see’em over dere?
SNIPER: Ya... 5 mils lead... *crack* ... DIE YA HOSER!!!!
SPOTTER: Great moose hunting shot dere Stosh eh!
SNIPER: Ya eh.. now dat’s what I’m talkin’ aboot!
SPOTTER: [screaming at target] YA EH! TAKE OFF YA HOSER!!!
Guns don’t kill people. Physics kill people.
In comparison, the equipment was crude....
Canada’s finest BUMP!
You’re making some guesstimates. You’re not going to hit first round, so you make sure you have a good spotter, then he calls the corrections, you use your mildots to aim off your original point then squeeze again.
I’ve seen guys hide on the wrong side of a rock before heh.
If you were a tiny astronaut and could hop aboard the bullet at the muzzle, the g-forces of "slamming on the brakes" due to air resistance, would kill you in almost an instant. Ten or twelve g's causes pilots to black out. A hundred g's is about the greatest anyone has ever survived in a controlled environment, and that only briefly.
Anyhow, the brakes are on and the bullet is decelerating, in a major way, the moment the bullet leaves the muzzle.
By the time this particular 50-cal bullet reached its target 2.2 miles away, it was no longer traveling even at the speed of sound, and sound was catching up to it fast.
Now, all these reported numbers (10 seconds, 2.2 miles, etc.) are rounded off, and we don't know many other factors about this shot that ordinarily would come into play in doing ballistics calculations. So we can't say with any certainty whether the sound got there first or the bullet got there first, much less whether or not the dead jihadi heard the report before the bullet hit him, or before he died (different things), but my money's on him not hearing anything because of the back-of-the-envelope reasons I gave earlier.
Something of which I didn't consider in my back-of-the-envelope calculations Agree, so many other factors also involved, some of which I cited, others I wouldn't have a clue about (rotation of the planet) to include.
I'm also guessing for a variety of reasons that the terrorist goat-humper didn't hear the shot but it'd be nice if he had a "what the he...." before his brains got splattered.
It's a pleasant thought anyway!
Thanks for your post.
Ahh the Coriolis Effect (rotation of the earth causing the target to move out of the way of rounds fired longitudinally ) https://loadoutroom.com/thearmsguide/external-ballistics-the-coriolis-effect-6-theory-section/
Anyway for those of us that believe in a just God and though we do not celebrate a lost soul in any way, this “terrorist goat-humper” will probably have an infinity of time to lament the deeds that have landed him wherever he is now and will be forever. Pray for his victims.
It's your time of flight -- you assumed the bullet never slowed down.
Picking a military cartridge, the M33 ball, the time of flight to 3800 yards would be about 10.2 seconds. The velocity of the bullet at that range would be about 720 ft/sec.
Ballistic Calculator: http://www.jbmballistics.com/cgi-bin/jbmtraj-5.1.cgi
Analog accuracy .....
Exactly correct. Glad there are people smarter than me here on FR who know this stuff. :-)
He had a spotter of extreme skill...
“What is the spotter’s job? How does he help?”
He must first determine range, then factor in wind conditions that are not uniform over that distance, factor air temp, air humidity, difference in elevation to the target, barometric pressure, oddly the rotation of the earth etc. He gives the firing solution to the shooter. Both spotter and shooter are extremely skilled. It really is rocket science.
The both deserve free beer!
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