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The years since 911 have seen major changes in the way snipers are employed on the modern battlefield, alongside an incredibly rapid evolution in their weapons, equipment and training. Over all good that covers the different types of training that each services goes through for their own sniper courses and the actual deployments is also covered in iraq and afghanistan. Cutshaw during the evolution of modern combat, the maximum effective range of. Even beyond that he was the mastermind of the modern american sniper. May 04, 2009 2 modern snipers have a range of 40005000, how the hell can th aks compensate and hit you at that range. The secondary weapon is a precision rifle of some kind equipped with a telescopic optic and it is this weapon that is mistakenly referred to as a sniper rifle.
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An american, british, german or russian soldier armed with their own armys sniper rifle could quickly put a captured enemys rifle into action, but not the japanese. Allied snipers in 15 extraordinary photographs during wwii. Its one of the qualities that has kept me most sane. You are a modern sniper ready to play your part in dangerous attacks and silent assassin missions. Snipers typically have highly selective and specialized training and use highprecisionspecial application rifles and optics, and often have sophisticated. From the legend to the reaperon the battlefield with special operations snipers. Suddenly from the opposite roof a shot rang out and the sniper dropped his.
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