Sniper!

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Thanks to the English tabloid SUN:

This chap deserves a thousand kudos. A medal of some sort, promotion, a luncheon with the Queen perhaps. He IS a member of the Household Cavalry after all. An Englishman who has done himself PROUD!!

"Super sniper's world record"

"A CRACK shot saved his Brit commander from two Taliban gunmen by shooting them dead from a world record MILE and a HALF away."

"Hero sniper Craig Harrison, 35, nailed the killers with a rifle bullet each as the pair manned a machine gun - then for good measure let rip a third shot that took out their weapon."

"Deadly ... Craig was using the Army's latest L115A3 sniper rifle"






Comments:

* One and one half [1 1/2] mile away. Took out the two bad guys and their weapon as well. It is hard to SEE your target at that distance, much less fire effectively on the enemy! The new sniper rifle has a X25 scope which makes such long-range firing possible!

* A lot of thought went into the design of the L115A3. Caliber is almost a big-game African hunting type weapon. For bringing down large and dangerous game with one shot. 8.59 mm round [.338], as contrasted to the previous sniper rifle caliber of NATO 7.62 mm.

* The L115A3 has a built-in suppressor/silencer. So it seems. The German SS battalion that allegedly fought in Indo-China also used with great effectiveness the silenced sniper rifle? So it is claimed in the book: "The Devil's Guard"!

Congrats trooper Craig!! Bloody good show. Literally so!!

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