I guess sniping Spetsnaz is a lot harder than sniping Afghani children.
“This sniping stuff is easy, they don’t know what they’re talking about. Just gotta get as high as possible”
these past few decades, the US and its lapdogs have not really fought wars, more like bullying poor countries, and we all know what happens when a bully meets his match.
Honestly, I have no idea how sniper combat with, ahem, near-peer enemy is supposed to look like. Like how does a high-tech military deal with enemy snipers?
Ever seen the Iraqi sniper video? It’s like thirty minutes of American troops losing their heads, over and over again, all allegedly recorded by one guy with one rifle. If you don’t have air support (a helicopter is better than a strike aircraft for this purpose) the only thing you can do is mitigate the damage and hope you find them eventually.
Can I get a link to that? I need something wholesome to make my day even better.
Helicopters and close air support (like the A-10 aircraft) usually. And artillery and mortars.
But if you’re dealing with a near peer enemy, they have those things too. So it basically turns into WW1 with airstrikes in place of trenches as the main cause of death until someone gets air superiority.
Loitering munitions aka suicide drones are for when you don’t have complete air superiority but can still fly something up for 10-15 minutes.
The US has over a dozen loitering munition systems in public knowledge, but not all of them have deployed in actual combat.
Turkey, Russia, Israel, and France make some as well.
EDIT: Yep, Biden is going to give Ukraine Switchblade 300 600 drones. These can take out tanks in 20km 40 km+ radius.
https://news.yahoo.com/ukraine-asks-biden-admin-armed-234550236.html
https://www.army-technology.com/projects/switchblade-tactical-missile-system/
How much does raining down bombs on one guy with a Dragunov hiding in an attic come out to? 50,000 US per guy killed? 200,000 US?
War isn’t merely Hell. It is a wasteful, useless Hell.
All my knowledge about snipers comes from Enemy at the Gate (I know, I know) so I assumed not letting people know your precise location was an important part of being a sniper.
Depends on a lot of things. In Chechnya the Russians dealt with snipers in high-rise apartments by using armored vehicles with 23mm anti-aircraft guns to stitch the entire building. Meaning they went up and down the apartments with exploding cannon rounds systematically blowing the shit out of each apartment until they were confident the sniper, and anyone else in the building, was dead.
The other conventional method of dealing with snipers is to figure out roughly where they are and drop artillery on the area until the sniper is paste.
The US has a system called Boomerang (If your city has Shot-Spotter tech you’re familiar with it) that uses an array of microphones and computers to figure out where a shot came from and roughly how far away it was. This can be used to dial in artillery or air strikes against the presumed location of the sniper.
You can also deploy your own snipers to hunt the sniper. This is less Enemy at the Gates and more a couple of guys with maps and binoculars plotting out where people had been taking fire from, then triangulating possible vantage points, then directing artillery fire on those points.
I’ve read about the 80s Shtora system that’s supposed to protect soviet tanks from being targeted by lasers and thought that maybe, considering that every Russian or US solder is equipped with a bunch of high-tech gizmos and linked in a net, they could use that to triangulate the position of the sniper.
-World’s Deadliest Sniper
-Man who got owned 20 minutes after venturing into an actual conflict where he couldn’t call in ‘tactical airstrikes’ on any suspicious looking male over 10 years of age
Pick one
Found an article on this guy before he died, some notes of interest:
he was convinced to go by his Ukrainian-Canadian boss
member of the 22eme, not CANSOFCOM so not actually an “elite” sniper, just a regular Canadian sniper
served on tours with yankees, war-crime likelihood increased drastically
There is something profoundly sad about being convinced by your literal petit-bouge boss to go and die in a pointless war, somehow more so than usual.
Can’t say I feel any empathy for the guy, but the gal to tell an employee to go become cannon fodder on a war you cannot possibly win is all sorts of fucked up.
see this is why we need unions. The union would tell your boss to fuck off if he tried to draft you
What kind of loser actually listens to someone telling them that though. Yeah, the boss is a jackass, but he doesn’t have the power to send him to Ukraine. He should have been the one to tell his boss to fuck off. Now he can’t cause he’s dead.
Ukrainian-Canadian
Depending on what generation Canadian they are, that’s probably gonna be a yikes from me
My thoughts exactly lol, the younger generations are still pretty right wing in my neck of the woods
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Going to war for your boss’s country while he sits in yours behind a NATO shield is pretty funny. Takes peasant mindset to subject mindset.
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"He’s not a great sniper. But he’s okay. Pretty average. So let’s send him to help an underdog army of rag tag civilians and right wing nationalists.
Number 1 hard agree. Number 2 basically Canada has a history of actually training a lot of good snipers but when I served every battalion had at least one platoon of these guys, so 20ish/300 infantry was this level of sniper. This guy was not the crawl three days in, wait three days, take one shot types, they are usually part of a recon detachment or a heavy weapons detachment, not some lone wolf types.
There is something profoundly sad about being convinced by your literal petit-bouge boss to go and die in a pointless war, somehow more so than usual.
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NO ONE WANTS TO WORK ANYMORE
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We sent our most gullible interns to die in a hail of cruise missiles on the other side of the planet
:-/
World’s Dead
liest Sniper
fixed
Damn, Russian demo-men just spamming stickies in the NATO spawn
Ukraine is a team of normal people while Russia is a team of heavy bots all blasting that one heavy song
Canada sent in a guy famous for racking up over 2000 confirmed kills against Afghani 13-year-olds sifting through rubble for scrap metal. He was immediately wasted by Lyudmila Pavlichenko’s great-grandson, a boy who grew up learning to fire a vintage Dragunov using bullets made from shit he swept off the floor at a derelict factory recommissioned to do piecework for custom orders on Etsy.
Something something hard times something something dudes rock.
