British sniper

[Potticus]

Be proud all you Brits!

It was silent but deadly.

A British sniper set a world sharpshooting record by taking out two Taliban soldiers in Afghanistan from more than a mile and a half away -- a distance so great, experts say the terrorists wouldn't have even heard the shots.

Craig Harrison killed the two insurgents from an astounding distance of 8,120 feet -- or 1.54 miles -- in Helmand Province last November firing an Accuracy International L11583 long-range rifle.

"The first round hit a machine-gunner in the stomach and killed him outright," said Harrison, a corporal of horse in the British Army's Household Cavalry, the equivalent of a sergeant in the American military.

Read more: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international...L#ixzz0rkq0h8NG

Source: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international...mJNal3HgWlmEgRL

The weapon in question

Looks like an AWP ehh ehh? Proud CS player right there.

 

[Maz7006]

the bullet would have taken time to get there, so i guess it was most probably stationary targets

even so, at such a distance its hard anyway.

 

[prowler]

Be proud all you Brits!

Be proud that someone killed a person from one and a half miles away?

This is why I hate this army thing. They cheer when they kill people, they cry when someone from England gets killed.

 

[GundamXXX]

Be proud all you Brits!

Be proud that someone killed a person from one and a half miles away?

This is why I hate this army thing. They cheer when they kill people, they cry when someone from England gets killed.

+1 to that


But all in all the guys got skills

 

[Talaria]

the bullet would have taken time to get there, so i guess it was most probably stationary targets

even so, at such a distance its hard anyway.

A decent Rifle can fire a bullet at 1500 m/s so by using some simple math: Time taken= Distance/velocity = 2414/1500= 1.6 (2sf), so at the least the bullet took approximately 1.6 seconds to get there. Chances are the sniper's rifle fires a faster round

 

[FAST6191]

2.475 km in real measurements.

Been a while since I did any distance shooting (or anything beyond air rifle really) but that is an insane distance to be doing accuracy at (harassment is not that bad). Some serious maths must have gone into those shots however.

 

[Blood Fetish]

 

[George Dawes]

Be proud that someone killed a person from one and a half miles away?

Only if you are a nationalist, who are, lets face it, subhuman devolved creatures.

 

[Theraima]

Be proud that someone killed a person from one and a half miles away?

This is why I hate this army thing. They cheer when they kill people, they cry when someone from England gets killed.

They dont like killing people, it was just an very amazing shot. As perfect as it gets.

Anyway, if you read the article fully you see that he didnt have enough luck, he broke his arms

 

[gameboy13]

I LOL'ed.

 

[Potticus]

Be proud all you Brits!

Be proud that someone killed a person from one and a half miles away?

This is why I hate this army thing. They cheer when they kill people, they cry when someone from England gets killed.

I don't cry when someone from england get's kill

Lol'd so hard



I'm not so much proud that he killed 2 terrorist, that I am that an amazing shot was taken and connected.

 

[Overlord Nadrian]

Be proud that someone killed a person from one and a half miles away?

This is why I hate this army thing. They cheer when they kill people, they cry when someone from England gets killed.True. They don't seem to realise that the people from the other side think exactly the same way about them.

QUOTE(Blood Fetish @ Jun 24 2010, 05:45 PM)