Posted on 02/07/2014 8:49:18 AM PST by rktman
Long, long ago US Special Operations Forces extensively studied what you can do with a sniper rifle, beyond just killing people. And they discovered that some items are highly vulnerable to what’s called in the trade a “standoff attack”.
Someone, in the United States, has gone beyond studying targets and has attacked at least one of them in this way; the FBI and other agencies are investigating, and playing their investigation very close to the chest. Hold that thought while we can consider what a mere rifle can do, and in a while we’ll tell you what a rifle or rifles did last April.
(Excerpt) Read more at weaponsman.com ...
Not to hijack the thread but I'm pretty sure that's just what they wanted.
Cutting fiber optic lines isn’t that good of an idea if your goal is to delay notification that the site has an issue. Keep alive signals are usually monitored and a dropoff causes a notification with priority to a monitoring system. It won’t be the police but the operators may very well call them as a precaution.
If it was a team it’d be wiser to coordinate so firing starts the moment the lines are cut. Burn only as much time as it takes to fire the shots and flee.
They only got away because of luck this time
Geez, I’d like to be there to help her steady her @ss. “Lean into it, darling, start your trigger squeeze, I’m right here behind you.”
Hunting rifles are already “medium range sniper weapons” to the U.N. gungrabbers. Now they’re “high powered grid disruptors” used by “militant antigovernment fanatics”.
War is almost here, folks. We have the rifles, we have the blades of grass.
The best thing about the picture is the smile on her face.
I almost have to laugh, at these fools who don’t relize what a threat this is and especially those who don’t take it seriously because of its simplicity. Seems so many of you forgot what was accomplished with a few box knives and some plane tickets just not that long ago.
Nice. Thank you b
FR needs a “Like” button. LOL
actually the thread i had comments removed from was from a thread many moons back about someone capping a joe blow street transformer that killed power in a multiple block area
“I almost have to laugh, at these fools who don’t relize what a threat this is”
And it’s nothing new. There was talk about this 30 or more years ago.
First several lines of story:
It’s the awe-inspiring pride of the United States – and it harbors a deadly power that could kill us all.
A pristine wilderness, full of scenic landscape and iconic hot-pools and geysers that attract tens of thousands of visitors every year.
But it’s what lies beneath that has scientists scurrying.
Yes, and many of us, ah, laymen too.
And yet others forget that the only reason a few box cutters were as effective as they were was because 'our' government had systematically disarmed us all on airplanes, and it's even worse today. Even with completely disarmed passengers, on one flight an ad-hoc disarmed militia was able to successfully foil the hijacker's plans at the cost of their own lives.
I wonder which of our liberties they will toss aside in order to "protect" the unprotectable electric substations mentioned in the article.
WHAT thread am i on
I cannot identify the type of firearm involved. Can anyone help?
Not most Argentinians, but point well taken.
You okay?
You seem a little wobbly. Or jiggly...something...
What, Fred, are you on?
still suffering from hypothermia after finally getting the pipes thawed
Had the same thing here. Thirty freakin below, actual temp, yesterday a.m.
Up both nights tending to pipes in outbuilding.
Restless naps, dreams of sugarplums bouncing, wiggling, a rifle going off....wait a minute...
Neither does her man :)
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