What are some mind-blowing facts about snipers?

?They say of a snipers bullet that it if you hear it, then you are safe, because it will already have passed safely by. It is the ones that you dont hear that do for you-Sohni


Snipers are easily the most feared soldiers on a battlefield wielding much more training and far advanced equipments compared to an average warfighter , targeting at much farther ranges and not only serve as a Battlefield Asset but also as an Unconventional Asset on a Battlefields as Snipers play an important role in Psychological Warfare and Asymmetric warfare. Here I will discuss some 15 Mind-Blowing Facts about Snipers around the world which I think might interest you a lot :

A. Longest Sniper Shot :


The Longest recorded Sniper Kill is to the name of a JTF-2 Sniper ( Canadian Special Operations Sniper ) who used a McMillan TAC-50 Sniper Rifle chambered for a .50 BMG round to achieve a target kill at 3,540 m during the Iraq Civil War. This record is followed by Corporal of Horse (CoH) Craig Harrisons record of achieving a Sniper Kill at a distance of 2,475 m using an L115A3 Sniper Rifle chambered for a .338 Lapua Magnum Round.

B. Cost Effective Assets on the Battlefield :


Snipers are usually regarded as a Cost-Effective Asset on the Battlefield though the training procedure for a Sniper and equipments and assets given to him is quite high compared to an Infantry Soldier. However the money spent in training and equipping a Sniper , helps the sniper to make every shot count. During the infamous Vietnam War , almost 50,000 rounds were used by Infantry Soldiers to make a single kill while snipers used just 1.3 rounds on an average per kill. This reduces the expense quite effectively on the battlefield.

C. Kill one man, terrorize a thousand :


These same words are etched on the plaque that hangs on the wall of U.S. Marine Sniper School at Camp Pendleton and this principle is what snipers around the world adhere to. Snipers are perfect agents of chaos on the battlefield because if you are stuck up in a Sniper Fire , you will hardly know where the Sniper has prepared his crow nest and keeping an eye on you. This exactly makes the Sniper the most feared soldier on the Battlefield ( besides a simple Radio Operator as he is just simply more dangerous than anyone ) and are the reason why they are immediately executed by the enemy if caught.

Snipers are really long range death machines , That can blow up animals head from such distances