Sinper Inside the Crosshairs

Barrett M82


This is History Channel : Sniper Inside the Crosshairs.
This episode combines real situation test and animated technologies that reveal the secret of
the sniper. Too fabulous to ignore it, capture the pictures and write the story from the one.

The following program uncovered history's most dangerous sniper missions. It contains graphic
material including scenes of battlefield violence. Some scenes are dramatically re-created.
--> Viewer discretion is advised.

A sniper Marine armed with a rifle 50 cal Barret sniper rifle and sound to observe of takes part in a training at a camp in northern Kuwait near the Iraqi border 17 March 2003. The sniper is the deadest weapon on the battlefield. There is no where to hide.

" One Shot, One Kill ".

The Miracle Shot . Ramadi Iraq, 2005.
The sniper's mission is to find people placing " IED "   and take them out.

Motto:
Be polite, be professional, and have a plan to kill everyone you meet.

One of the biggest techniques that we use to find where our next targets were going to be
relatively to deer or turkey hunting.

We observed the area, just like hunters do in  pre-season. What you can see and can't see from
what angles.

** Which one is the most difficult, deer or turkey ??


Center Mass Hold
Center mass is under the breastplate. it would not only give you a larger target surface  to hit,
but also it could be desensitizing, you are not looking at individual.Instead of picking out a facial
feature to engage, you are picking out the shirt button.

If you wasted the time to take two well-aimed head shots, you could have taken five body shots, and then came back either capture or re-engaged and killed the enemy.

But the real dangerous will come from the rooftops. A common practice for a lot of units to
get the best observation, they would go to the rooftops of the building. And when you do that,
you skyline yourself.



Man down, man down !!

Enemy sniper.

In the 4th floor, there was a single individual standing in the bay window. 1250 meters.

M3A Scope. Bullet Drop Compensator

Mil-Dot.
At 1376 yards, each mil-dot represents 4 feet.

Kentucky Windage
The sniper aims or " Hold Off " 8 feet left of the target to compensate for a light wind and spin drift.

If you feel right, and then just squeeze the trigger. Target down.

Vietnam, 1969.
A marine sniper faced hundreds of enemy soldiers less than 100 yards away.
16 different battles at 16 different positions, and you can't miss.





The Starlight Scope
16 shots, 16 kills. The enemy is dead, before he heard the gun shot.
But he violated the sniper's rule : " Never fire more than 2 shots from a single position ".
The hunter is now the hunted.

AN/PVS





Duplicate the situation of that night, but under far from the different circumstance.

2004 Fallujah ambush, Iraq. From Wikipedia.

On March 31, 2004 an ambush saw Iraqi insurgents in Fallujah attack a convoy containing four
United States contractors from the private security company Blackwater USA, who were conducting
delivery for food caterers ESS.

" Scott Helvenston ".  A former United States Navy Seal. 






Mission : Provide cover for the marine corps on the ground and take out enemy fighters like : RPG.


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Stopping Power.

From Wikipedia :

Describe the ability of a firearm or other to cause a penetrating ballistic injury to the target, human, or animal, sufficient to incapacitate the target where it stands.


Final Firing Position

Loop Holes



Record the distance of objects in the kill zone.

The primary target for the marine sniper is the insurgent who hold the RPG. After the insurgent
shot the rocket creating the blast of smoke.

Two ways to engage the target.


Tracking Method
You put your crosshairs in the target and you follow it.

Ambush Method
You put your scope out of the direction of target, and then wait for the target coming to the scope.

Terminal ballistics : Crash Factor and Tear Factor.

Crash Factor :
What the round is gonna eliminate from body and pass out. The tissue that got blown out of the body
that's crushed.

Tear Factor :
The tissue is torn by the projectile as it is in the body.


Distance is the sniper's ally.
Unfortunately for the insurgents, when they start to engage them, they would move back.
If they hit the insurgents at 500 yards, it was higher " killing effects "  than at 200 ~ 300 yards.

The thumb of rule :

The close they are, the bullet's moving at a faster pace, so it's not gonna do as much damage.
As they back off a little bit, the round is not going too fast that just zips in the body.






Leading the Target
Try to guess the speed in which the target's moving.









LUTAYFIYAH Iraq, 2004.
Mission : Look for the roadside bombs and insurgents.





Barrett M82

Rambo 4

Raufoss Mk 211.

Wikipedia :
The " Raufoss Mk "  211 is a .50 caliber (12.7x99mm NATO) multipurpose anti-material projectile. The multipurpose name is based on the projectile having an " Armor-Piercing "   (tungsten core), and an incendiary components.

It is capable of penetrating light-armored targets and engaging helicopters, aircraft and
light-armored vehicles.








The incendiary mix of the bullet ignited the explosive at its core and launched the " tungsten steel "  to penetrate through the concrete wall.











** Let the sun warm the bullets up that increases the a faster burn.