[CLICK PICTURES TO ENLARGE]A British Army sniper killed two Taliban soldiers from approximately one-and-a-half miles away with his L115A3 long-range rifle. The bullet flight time at this distance from muzzle to target is about three seconds. The story comes from the Times of London:
A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than 1 mile away.Hats off to the sniper and the folks at Accuracy International--the British manufacturers of the L115A3. Also, congratulations to the two Taliban machinegunners on achieving their martyrdom. It is always soul-warming to see others achieve spiritual goals. I wish them well in Paradise.
Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle.
“The first round hit a machinegunner in the stomach and killed him outright,” said Harrison, a Corporal of Horse. “He went straight down and didn’t move.
“The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too. They were both dead.”
The shooting — which took place while Harrison’s colleagues came under attack — was at such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to reach their target after leaving the barrel of the rifle at almost three times the speed of sound.
The distance to Harrison’s two targets was measured by a GPS system at 8,120ft, or 1.54 miles. The previous record for a sniper kill is 7,972ft, set by a Canadian soldier who shot dead an Al-Qaeda gunman in March 2002.
The whole article is a must read. Just click on the blog post title or copy and paste this: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/afghanistan/article7113916.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084
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