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3450 meters, over two miles, taking 10 seconds to reach the target. Congrats Canada!
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3450 meters, over two miles, taking 10 seconds to reach the target. Congrats Canada!
That's like prairie dog hunting but on a much larger scale.
That's an insanely impressive shot.
That's a long shot. Bet he couldn't repeat it....but hope he's trying.
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A Canada special elite forces sniper broke the world record for the longest kill shot in the military history. According to the Globe and Mail, the sniper whose name was withheld, fired from a stunning distance of 3,450 meters. He is a part of the Joint Task Force 2 in the Iraq Civil War.
The target was an ISIS operative and by killing him, the sniper broke the previous record by almost 1000 meters. He stood on a high-rise during an operation that took place within the last month in Iraq and fired. It took the bullet under 10 seconds to hit the target. The report said that the kill was independently verified by video and camera data. An unnamed military source was quoted saying: “Hard data on this. It isn’t an opinion. It isn’t an approximation. There is a second location with eyes on with all the right equipment to capture exactly what the shot was.”
The weapon used was a McMillan Tac-50 and the ammunition was Hornady A-MAX.50 (.50 BMG). The windage and curvature of the earth were also factors that had to be considered. “The shot in question actually disrupted an ISIS attack on Iraqi security forces. Instead of dropping a bomb that could potentially kill civilians in the area, it is a very precise application of force and because it was so far way, the bad guys didn’t have a clue what was happening,” another military source said. He also emphasized that the operation fell within the boundaries of a government assist mission.
The names of the sniper and his partner were not revealed for reasons of operational security. They were reportedly sent to many dangerous locations to find and do away with insurgents. An expert in training Canadian Special Forces told the Globe and Mail that it would take an immense amount of concentration to fire from a higher location. In such situations, the ballistics of the bullet as well as the direction of wind would have to be accounted for.
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With this shot, the sniper has broken the previous record of 2,475 meter by Corporal of Horse, Craig Harrison of the United Kingdom who had shot a Taliban gunner in the Afghanistan War. Prior to Harrison, the title was held by another Canadian sniper, Rob Furlong, when he shot and killed an Afghan insurgent carrying an RPK machine gun during Operation Anaconda. Before Furlong, Canadian Master Corporal Arron Perry from the same battalion held the record for a few weeks after he killed an insurgent from a distance of 2,310 meters during the same operation. U.S. Serg. Bryan Kremer has the longest confirmed sniper kill shot by a U.S. soldier in 2004 in Iraq when he shot an insurgent standing at a distance of 2,300 meters.
Although the Canadian army is not a member of the Multi-National Force — Iraq which consists of military from the US, UK, Australia, Spain and Poland — the current government of Justin Trudeau has expanded the military commitment in Iraq, committing 207 Canadian Special Forces trainers in an assist, train and advise mission. Joint Task Force 2, to which the sniper belongs, is one of the special operations forces of the Canadian Armed Forces. Canadian commandos are not to be involved in direct combat.
Just a month ago, an unnamed British SAS sniper killed an ISIS fighter (who was himself a sniper) in Mosul, firing from 1.5 miles away. According to the Daily Mail, the shot took three full seconds to travel from the shooter to the target. The gun: a CheyTac M200.
When will ISIS learn the safety effectiveness of the reflective belt?
I just read this earlier this morning. One heck of a great shot. I know he used a McMillan TAC 50. I'd be curious to know what optic he had sitting on it. Nice to see a win for the good guys.
Amazing shot. Has to be a ton of luck involved too.
I'm wondering what Canada is feeding their snipers. 3 of the top 5 shots are canucks.
I don't know about luck. There's a lot of prep that goes into a shot like that from the team. I'd say the lucky part is simply the guy didn't move for almost 10 seconds. That's kind of amazing to me that the bullet and the live, moving target were in the same place 10 seconds after pulling the trigger.
With the inbreeding and perpetual retardation of the Middle East, he probably got distracted by something shiny on the ground.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
There's so much that goes into a shot of even half that distance that you have to agree that there's no small amount of luck at work. Any one of a number of things could have changed ever so slightly and that projectile would have been three feet off by the time it arrived at its Target. I like to think of the saying "luck is when preparation meets opportunity" applies in this case. When you think of it that way it's not taking any of the credit away from the shooter because it's still an incredible shot but it does point a light at the fact that it's still about a one-in-a-million shot even for the most amazing shooter ever.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
I was wondering this as well. I saw a thing on the Canadian with the longest shot on record before this, he was talking about how much goes into a shot at that distance. Never mind that it was his 3 round that hit. Can you imagine if had been at that range cold bore with no reference POI? Even worse, can you imagine being on the receiving end? You see dirt spurt up near you seconds before you hear the crack. I guess like that old sniper adage goes: "If you hear the shot, it wasn't meant for you."Quote:
Originally Posted by Guylee
I have heard of US Army snipers taking 2200m shots at targets and first time hit on steel, but that was a very controlled, non-combat situation.
DTA has some videos of them doing very long shots for ammo testing. Russ from DTA shoots ELR a lot and it's not easy. A lot of things have to line up perfectly.
What is the theoretical limit?
The upper limit of a .50 cal round is 2500m, that's the upper end maximum effective range on paper. I'd be surprised to see this record be broken because it's really pushing the maximum range the round can travel without some serious dope on the optic. 3500m is really pushing the shooter's capability to the absolute maximum, not to mention optics and what they're zeroed to. I imagine the zero for this sniper was somewhere out to 1000m, which not sure what kind of optic was used, but I can imagine the target being outside the view of the scope.Quote:
Originally Posted by hatidua
Well, the goat had quite the "Come hither" look that day...Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns
That probably explains a lot.
At 3,800 yards, how much does writing "to whom it may concern" come into play on the projectile.
The longest shot up until now, (2475?), the Canadian sniper had 3 Taliban targets, missed the first two shots, and used those two misses to gauge roughly where his hits were impacting before making the record kill-shot. At that range, cold-bore, like foxtrot said, you have to be damn good, damn lucky, and the factors have to really be in your favor.Quote:
Originally Posted by hatidua
Nailed it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Bailey Guns