Posted on 08/12/2018 10:17:14 PM PDT by NoLibZone
A British soldier from the elite Special Air Service has shot and killed an ISIS commander from more than a mile away, in what is thought to be the best long-range shot in the regiment’s 77-year history.
Using a a huge .50 Calibre Browning machine gun, which is nearly 40 years old, the unnamed sergeant, who is a veteran of Iraq and Syria, managed to hit the fighter directly in the chest with a shot that blew off the commander’s arm and shoulder.
“The Islamic State commander was briefing his men and clearly liked the sound of his own voice because he was standing still for a least 20 minutes while his fighters sat on the ground in front of him,” a source familiar with the incident, which took place in June in Afghanistan, told The Daily Star Sunday.
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Your chart has around a 60:1 vertical exaggeration.
If you stretched it out horizontally 60 times I think you would be down to a degree or so angle at range.
YUP! I remember Mr. Dowling teaching me that in HS Physics 56 years ago. Of course, that was before "NEW" math, so it may have changed.
He used a 20x Unertl scope and a mount fashioned from scrap aluminum by some Sea-Bees. Because of the .50 BMG's range, and because the US military tended to push back the jungle for a considerable distance from their defensive perimeters, this set-up actually was fairly common in Vietnam.
Despite his distance record having since been eclipsed, Hathcock's shot remains the longest sniper shot that was certifiably taken from a cold bore. Some reports claim that the Canadian sniper's 2(+) mile shot in Iraq was a CBS but there is no substantiation (mission: classified). If it was, I suspect it was a "demonstration" shot using DARPA's self-steering .50 bullet. And the peripheral circumstances surrounding that shot lead me to believe that might have been the case.
The fact that it might have been an old barrel is no handicap (unless you take "old" to also mean "shot out"). The US military bought so many barrels during the two world wars that (both times) the barrel manufacturers flooded the markets with the Pratt & Whitney barrel milling machines, which they found themselves overstocked on when the war(s) ended. The machines are massively overbuilt and the tooling might wear out but the machine itself is essentially immortal. Basically every custom barrel manufacturer in the US still is using a war surplus sine milling machine to cut the rifling in their high-end barrels.
An American sniper in Vietnam was doing that in the 1960’s
Just another article from someone who knows not. It was a .50 Cal BMG cartridge, not a gun.
Vey informative. Are those mean radius numbers must be under ideal or theoretical conditions? What about windage, air density variations, etc?
Had to be a bit of a shock, huh? Arm and shoulder blasted off. Yikes! They all looked like ants scurrying around after you step on their anthill.
“Carlos Hathcock did it in RVN way back when”
Couldn’t remember the name in my earlier post. The guy set new standards in sniping
so the lefties can ID him and destroy his life, no thanks leave the guy alone and safe
Yeah, I realized that after posting. Stupid me...what a dumb one! Means culpa.
Yeah, I realized the different scales after posting. There was a time I wouldn’t have made such a stupid mistake. That’s a doozie.
LOL. Yeah.
“this story is hard to believe. let me explain”
I couldn’t do it . But it’s been being done since Vietnam days with the 50 cal. I believe the record was 2 miles from a Canadian sniper in Afghanistan
That’s ok, I can do math and physics, I just cant speel. lol.
From the class’s position, it was
SPLAT!
Zip
Boom!
Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar! Allahu Akbar!”
Followed by one of the students saying that if he had to listen to another 5 minutes of that guy’s BS he would have shot him himself!
Is that the one where he shot the guy on his bicycle?
During the Vietnam War we had a .50 cal single shot mounted on our 106mm Recoiless Rifle as a spotting round. Hit the target with the .50 tracer round and pull the lanyard on the cannon, simple low tech but it worked.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RDjeYePAU1s
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