Top 5 Amazing Facts about Snipers

this is my rifle with deadly precision these soldiers are an incredible force on the battlefield welcome to watchmojo.com Stallman we're counting down the top 5 facts about snipers and what makes them so deadly without me my rifle is nothing we'll be looking at the snipers tactics challenges and just what they're capable of so dial in your scopes and take aim mode number 5 snipers pretty much never work alone one of the snipers primary and most important jobs is to cover and provide overwatch for other units conducting operations keeping their fellow soldiers safe man what the hell your overwatch Einstein tasks aside they virtually always have a spotter spun shooter spa shooter it seems logical to have at least one person watching the snipers back while they're focused downrange but what many don't realize is that the spotter is typically the more experienced sniper not your Margaret award hey mom it's the spotters job to help find targets then identify that targets distance as well as a variety of factors that could affect the path of the bullet at that range he's moving he's moving he's moving to the building follow miu got him and help make adjustments to the scope 870 yards and closing when three-quarter value buck to left at the end of the day one might say that the shooter is pretty much just a triggerman on target Oh scope fire when ready number four snipers can use sound to locate enemy snipers bullets move faster than the speed of sound so after a gun fires the distance between the bullet and the sound wave emanating from a gunshot grows larger and larger this allows snipers to use a technique called crack bang as a supersonic bullet flies past a sniper it creates a distinct noise called a ballistic crack by then counting the seconds between the crack and the following bang created by the rifle firing the data can be used to range the distance of the sniper unfortunately the technique is only good within 450 meters however DARPA a branch of the US Department of Defense has developed a device called the boomerang that basically does the same thing just with fancy microphones and computers number three the longest distance reported kill was just under 2.5 kilometres that seems like a tough distance to grasp imagine standing at one end of a football field and seeing someone at the other end while in 2009 a corporal of force in the British Army was able to make two confirmed kills from a distance of 27 football fields or just over a mile and a half after a two-man Taliban machine-gun team targeted soldiers from the snipers unit the sniper was able to hone in and kill them both using a 338 Lapua Magnum rifle in spite of the fact that the targets were about 900 meters past the recommended effective range of his rifle it was later calculated that the bullet was in the air for about six seconds before it hit the target upon returning from his military tour the sniper in question suffered severe PTSD stating that he is haunted by the images of the people he's killed out of respect for him in his privacy we've decided to leave his name out of this video what do you see in those flashbacks people that have killed so my wife said they've got life as well you know they're fighting but we're fighting against that minister some of them will me number too many factors can throw off a bullets pack you know what it takes to make a shot at that range everything comes into play that for humidity elevation temperature wind spindrift most obvious factor is distance since bullets don't actually fly but instead fall in a very specific direction that means their path is really a big arc and snipers need to identify their targets range in order to make sure that art connects with the target but the longer the range the more factors can possibly alter our bullets path humidity air pressure altitude of the shooter versus altitude of the target all of this can alter the bullets trajectory and has to be accounted for when adjusting the scope the APRA mentioned record-holding sniper stated that the conditions to make his shot at that range happen to be perfect on that day he even had to adjust for something called the Coriolis effect meaning that while the bullet was in the air for six seconds the rotation of the earth caused his target to move that long distance this often requires trial and error meaning that the whole one shot one kill thing is more often than not one big flop of BS number one being able to hide is just as important as being able to shoot snipers rely on their ability to hide for protection as they learn to shoot snipers are also taught to think outside the box trawling and staying where most people wouldn't think to go in order to engage your target you must see your target but your target must not see you chevy camouflage is a sniper's best friend most snipers wear an outfit called a ghillie suit which uses draping materials and some of the environments foliage to break up the outline of the human form making them difficult to spot camo doesn't stop there either as the worst mistake a sniper can make is to forget to comic lodge their weapon as there are no straight lines or perfect circles in nature rifles tend to stand out breaking up the lines of the rifle and hiding the black circle created by the scope can essentially save a snipers life did these facts get you thinking what fascinating facts about snipers did we miss for more precise top tens and carefully hidden top fives be sure to subscribe to watchmojo.com you

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Length: 6min 27sec (387 seconds)

Published: Mon Jan 23 2017