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A Canadian sniper in Iraq has broken the world record for the longest confirmed kill shot in history ... A member of the elite Special Forces unit, Joint Task Force 2, who has not been named, killed an Isis insurgent from 3,450 metres (2.1 miles) away ... The sniper used a McMillan TAC-50 sniper rifle—the standard long-range sniper of the Canadian military—and fired the shot from a high-rise building in an undisclosed location ... The shot broke the previous record, held by Craig Harrison, a member of the British armed forces, by almost 1000 metres.

I suspect Justin Trudeau is going to appologize to the family of the target ...
In the meantime , Good job


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 02151.html

It took 10 seconds to hit the target...a lot can happen in 10 seconds.

christel wrote:It took 10 seconds to hit the target...a lot can happen in 10 seconds.

Exactly, the target may have renounced terrorism and decided to open a corner shop in Luton.

Even from a high building, there's not many places or environments where you could see a man-sized object at this distance because of moisture, dust, whatever in the air. I doubt if you would most of the time here.

(The US Army Air Force developed the super-accurate Norden bomb-sight before WW2 and installed it in the B17 initially. They could hit targets with an error of under 100ft from 30,000 ft on their air bombing ranges in the Nevada desert and easily achieve the requisite standard of all bombs falling within a 1,000 ft radius of the bombing mark. The US Eighth Air Force came to England in '42 and started mass daylight 'precision' raids over Germany a year later. Sadly, from 30,000 ft altitude above Europe even in fine weather, it proved near impossible to see targets!)

Can anyone run a better ballistics program than my phone? I can only go to 2187 yards maximum and then, with a 600 yard zero a .50 cal bullet is doing 974fps with 2099 inch drop and will still have another 1600 yards to go!

I'm curious what the ballistics would look like, even theoretically.

[quote="froggy] I suspect Justin Trudeau is going to appologize to the family of the target ...
In the meantime , Good job


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world ... 02151.html[/quote]

Yes, Trudeau is an apologist for all things Islamic. What an oxygen thief he is!

Very obliging target, keeping still for that time. Perhaps he was having a crafty kip.

shugie wrote:Very obliging target, keeping still for that time. Perhaps he was having a crafty kip.

Could have been an enemy sniper........

Or it could've been a group target and he was just piling rounds into them

Any idea of retained energy at target ?