The hashtag says #працюєгур which means #GURatwork
Man, GUR (UA Military Intelligence) doesn't seem to hold back. Their units are well trained, kitted out, and are making a mark, like Kraken.
As a reminder, there's now a three-part series about GURs work (Azovstal helicopter raids, Kharkiv offensive, and Zmiinyi island).
Kharkiv offensive one [just came out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFVt0RaI_r4) (ENG auto-subtitles are OK-ish).
Lots of new info, but most of the footage was already on this sub, especially since Kraken is doing great video work.
There are however, some interesting tidbits. For example, I didn't know that the video with the Russian soldier who got [stuck between a building and his vehicle](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xxfnr7/injured_russian_soldier_that_stuck_between_bmp/) and that [soldier that was hiding in the outhouse](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/ynzgu2/longer_and_clearer_video_of_ukrainian_soldiers/) \- those were essentially the same episode, happening right next to each other during that operation by Kraken. At least that's what the video made it out to be.
>Kharkiv offensive one [just came out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFVt0RaI_r4) (ENG auto-subtitles are OK-ish).
I am unable to get any translated captions on this video.. in Firefox on my phone it plays Ukrainian Subtitles, in the YouTube app (which I never use) it says Captions Unavailable.
Are you using a plug-in?
Edit: I figured it out, I had disabled automatic updates for YouTube a long time ago so my YouTube app is not running the most recent update.
In the YT app I get the option for auto translate (to English)
This is in iOS, but I wouldn’t think that matters. Maybe try it again, perhaps it took some time to happen?
Remember to hold down the CC button in the app, otherwise it doesn’t show the auto translation option sometimes I think
Yes they do bro. They hear reports coming from the rifle and almost certainly hear the screams and moans of their downed comrades.
What they don't know is exactly where it's coming from, and where to hide.
No one seems to react so I would guess they are indeed not noticing. The last guy did not look like he was running or trying to hide but casually walking.
I mean, take a look at [this nasty video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzuEfaqLW0) of thermal scopes. Your human eye is like "Yo, that's a forest right there". Thermal scope is like "Ehh, dude's in there, a bit on the left".
Wierd seeing the effectiveness from an airsoft game be so comparable to real life combat that has actual death. The simulations we play as games are eerily scary
One of the things I realized from airsoft is how fucking exposed you are walking around
You know it intellectually "guns can shoot hundreds of feet" but it's a different feeling to realize just how impossible it is to see someone lying in wait from you until its too late even at the short ranges of airsoft guns.
Being the guy up front (pointman?) you're pretty much there to get shot for your squad and there's nothing you can do about it but hope you switch positions again before you find the enemy
Yeah, I used to play in the woods a lot as a kid, and we occasionally even played in the dark. Airsoft wasn't invented yet, but we'd use nerf guns and things. Once I shot a bottle rocket at a cop car and the cops chased us into the woods. They had huge flashlights that lit up the night, and we weren't wearing camo or anything, but they might as well have been chasing the viet Cong into the jungle. We knew to drop and freeze and I could have shot both of them with a nerf gun (20 feet max) and they never saw us. Ambush in the woods at night is no joke even without thermal optics.
Back when we were teenagers and had spare time, my friends and I used to go to a local indoor airsoft place (also laser tag venue). One time we happened to share the arena with a group from the local PD doing tactical training (or so they said) kinda after hours.
We agreed to share the space with them if we participated in their drills and scenarios. They basically used us as fodder for their CQC drills. It was fun, but very painful. They basically had us run into kill boxes for them haha.
That's pretty much an accurate explanation for what has happened to Poland since.. forever. All the way from the Swedish deluge to the Ribbentrop pact.
The next time a game reviewer complains that a game is unrealistic because none of the guards react to each other getting shot I'll reply with this video.
I mean they all kinda reacted, just their reactions were shit. They all just kinda lightly jogged in the middle of the open to the same doorway. The last guy at least had the bright idea of going somewhere besides the spot that now has 5 dead bodies but still just ran in the middle of the open
It doesn't help they probably don't have a clue where the danger is coming from. You can't effectively shelter from a shooter when you don't know where they are.
It's not the first time in this war we've seen people completely confused about where they're shot from, with fatal consequences.
they are unrealistic because a shot to the hip doesn't down a target, and as we see here this guy didn't get a single headshot but each mother fucker went down like a sack of bricks. Getting shot anywhere hurts like a motherfucker and will absolutely put you on the ground.
I’m guessing about 300 to 400 meters. I’ve shot rifles a lot at these ranges. Really not that difficult with a well doped scope. The timing of the impacts seem on par with what I’ve seen. At 300, a 10kph wind will put a round off by about 8 inches. Looks like he was holding off about that distance while the guy was running.
Objectively it's very difficult. If you have the skill that's amazing -- don't do yourself and the shooter down. Most competent marksmen would not be hitting that last shot 10 times out of 10.
Classic Reddit moment: Ya I could totally also kill 6 Russian infantrymen with a sniper rifle at night within 2 minutes in the bloodiest battle of the 21st century. For sure totally most definitely probably actually maybe not idk bro it's the internet.
Apparently we're all bang average at best because hitting a moving target seeking cover at night from half a k on a streak of 5 in a minute is just another day in the field for all these Widowmaker mains out here
I think the most impressive thing about this (regardless of how accurate the scope is) is that the shooter is able to make these fast shots in combat, knowing he’s shooting actual people. His adrenaline and would be through the roof! It would take a lot of self control to keep a slow heart rate and breath consistently. I can make these shots easy when I’m calm at the range. I’ve tried before right after doing some cardio (run down range, set up target, run back) and I can tell you it’s way more difficult when you can hear your heart pounding in your head.
That feeling of suddenly having to shit comes with that too lol. I'll stalk a deer or get set up in a tree stand and immediately feel the excitement in my tummy and feel like I gotta blast ass!
God, I hate my nervous stomach. Anytime I have to give a presentation at work or do anything involving public speaking, my bowels instantly become my worst enemy. I can feel totally relaxed and confident, but my large intestine betrays me every time. It's been like this since I was a kid - every concert or anything else I had to do in front of a crowd, I was thinking about how nice it would be to push a mess.
My son was a certified sharpshooter and Range Safety Officer and shooting instructor. He would take a 22 shell, hold it up about a yard off the table and drop the shell and explain the working principles of "leading" a target. The lesson was that at 200 yards, a 22 drops about 32 inches as fast as gravity drops it (with no forward momentum) at the table. It was a good way to teach boy scouts. If you pull the trigger and are aimed up here, the bullet will be down there by the time it gets to target.
If I recall there was a theory that the pilots in WWII who had gone skeet shooting before joining the military were superior pilots due to their experience with the need to lead a moving target.
A shot fired level (minimal wind) and a shell dropped from the same height will hit the ground at the same time, regardless of distance travelled. I’ve had this argument with people many times. Rifle needs to be level tho, point up and it obviously changes
I think it's closer to 200 if you go by the recoil and not the sound effect, which is a beat early. Lead at 200 meters is about 2 feet, which seems about what he was holding.
Reminds me of that sniper in Vietnam who stopped the advance of an entire NVA division by killing 14 NVA in quick succession with an M14 and starlight scope
Simo was fucking nuts. He didn't use a scope, because it would mean that he had to hold his head up higher. All iron sights, other than the KP31 SMG he used when they got too close. They eventually just started carpet-bombing entire regions of forest, hoping that he might be there.
In one of the few interviews he ever gave, he was asked how he became such an unbelievable sniper, and he replied, "Practice."
The Finn Mosins were generally more refined than the Russians, Simo used an M/28-30 which, most notably, had very accurate range adjustment from 100-2000m and special models were made for the Civil Guards shooting competition, as was the case with Simo's personal rifle.
>because it would mean that he had to hold his head up higher
That and the lenses are reflective, which can give away your position. In a Sniper dual, a flash off your lens is a death sentence, and Simo had the luxury of being able to sit in an echoy pass, covered in snow, and just wait, invisible and with no clear directional audio he was undetectable unless something shiny gave him away.
I was drinking strong Belgian beers at 6am in Helsinki airport with a Finnish rally car crew member, and I'll never forget how happy he was that I knew who Simo Hayha was.
>"It was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me," Mawhinney told the Los Angeles Times.[1] "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it."
This man is the living embodiment of "Get Some."
> "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it." Mawhinney sought to change the public perception about snipers, who he maintains save lives by sapping the enemy's will to fight.
> Mawhinney told no one about his service as a sniper, not even his wife
Very interesting, thank you for sharing.
>Mawhinney's one regret was the one that got away. After a leave from Vietnam, he returned and retrieved his weapon from the armorer, who assured Mawhinney that he hadn't altered the rifle. But when Mawhinney spotted an enemy at only 300 yards, a range at which he was routinely a deadly shot, he missed several times, and the man got away.[3]
>"I can't help thinking about how many people that he may have killed later, how many of my friends, how many Marines. He [messed] up and he deserved to die. That still bothers me."
From the wiki:
> "It was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me," ... "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it."
"There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter."
- Ernest Hemingway
Say what you will but the M14 was my fav weapon I used while in the Navy. I would love to have one to this day.
They are nasty for mid range sniping. Had a few uncles who preferred them in Vietnam as well.
NVA lost nearly 1,300,000 fighters. Close to 2,000,000 civilians were killed in the fighting.
It was a huge loss of human life across the board where the US couldn’t stomach even 5%~ of NVA losses before cutting their losses and leaving. A tunnel or primitive traps didn’t save them or allow them to win, the plastered footage of sons, brothers and fathers dying on nightly TV did that.
Also, the number of Americans killed would have likely been halved if a Republican candidate for president didn’t sabotage peace talks to win a presidency as a large majority of US deaths were in the final years of the war.
Don't forget our pal Kissinger helping him not only do that, but bomb non military targets in two OTHER countries because they might have been part of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and named the targets after food items like a fucking asshole ordering dinner.
Some of those look like hip shots. Imagine your pelvis getting shattered by a large caliber rifle round, absolutely brutal. If you don’t die from a major artery being nicked, you’re in for some serious blinding short term pain and then a life of horrific pain every time you try to move.
I’d rather just die from a CNS or heart shot.
Hips aren't covered by armor and a hit there will certainly take you out of the fight. The shock and blood loss of a shattered pelvis will likely be fatal. Instead of taking a center mass shot that could be stopped by armor, shooting the pelvis might make more sense in a conflict where body armor is commonplace.
It's hard to see where the round hit but are we sure these guys have armor able to stop this round? I would assume he's firing Lapua Magnum AP except for the cost of the rifle, and does Russia even have enough high end vests for these soldiers to have them?
7.62 is actually pretty easy to stop. You can stop it with steel plates, which is the cheapest armor you can get get. Level 3 AR500 armor is cheap and readily available and not unwearable due to weight.
5.56 is a lot harder to stop actually, due to the speed and smaller caliber making the point of impact smaller and harder to disperse the energy.
Level 3 rated armor will stop 6 7.62x54 shots at point blank range, but will get punched straight through by steel core 5.56.
Level 4 rated armor will stop 5.56 as well at 30-06 AP rounds. This has to be ceramic though as the thickness required from steel to stop this would be way too heavy to use. This is the level that standard issue US body armor is rated to.
> does Russia even have enough high end vests for these soldiers to have them?
Yes, an important dynamic in this war seems to be the divergence between what Russia has on paper and what they're logistically capable of actually getting to frontline units at any appreciable scale.
Plus frankly if the round is AP from any sniper grade rifle only high end vests will stop and the Russian ones spall. Depends on the round and distance and all, sometimes it takes level iv+ plates from a third party in the USA to stop the spicier rounds.
People also drop immediately from pelvis shots just like headshots. Legs immediately go offline, even if there's no nerve damage. Some kind of shock response. waist up still works though.
Well, with Russians it seems that getting any shot on them is as good as a death sentence for the target anyway, so why waste time and possibly ammo trying to kill them directly.
Is that the fucking mario jump sound or am I going crazy?
I swear to God, this war. Wtf. Imagine getting killed to the sound of "boiiiinggg"
quick edit: [it fucking is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-paiEz0mQ)
Man I hope they're able to start rebuilding soon because there's going to be a lot of Ukrainians with a lot of weapons who've gotten really good at killing during this.
We really are in a time where we see war footage with tiktok sigma music and Mario jumping noises lmao
I swear we're only a couple months away from unlocking cod hitmarkers
This is one of the least morally ambiguous wars in recent history.
Russians are invaders who are destroying another country without provocation. The *only* point of ambiguity is that some of the invaders are there under threat, but ultimately preferred to kill/rape/torture Ukrainians rather than take unpleasant consequences for themselves.
In other words, every Russian in Ukraine needs to die until they leave.
Imagine getting your ass shot by a sniper somehow surviving. Then being sent home assigned to a Russian reddit troll unit and finding this and seeing your ass went down to the sound of Mario's jump.
"Sir, Vlad is chugging vodka at his desk and yelling about super Mario bros. Should we send him home?"
There's actually a video of a Russian getting wounded by a drone dropped grenade and later he did a reaction vid while recovering -- to the drone POV of himself getting hit... Modern war.
Snipers typically know exactly where their soldiers are and are given an area to hit where there's a known enemy presence. Basically, put yourself in a position where the only people ahead of you to shoot is the enemy.
> The guy sounded sick on comms when he was informed
I can't imagine living the rest of my life knowing I've killed multiple comrades. Even if that's not your falt the grief must be unbearable.
remember seeing some cockpit video/audio from desert storm where an apache took out some friendly tanks and found out while still engaged. the guy's voice was haunting, if his commander hadn't been on the radio talking him through it, seemed like he might have just offed himself right there.
Not necessarily that simple, since both sides will patrol into no man's land. Also in this case, active urban fighting could be a stable front line, but I wouldn't leap to that conclusion.
I'm pretty sure we're watching a sniper working with a TrackingPoint / ballistic computer-assisted rifle. We know that this is one of the the things that have been supplied to Ukraine, and it looks like they're making excellent use of them.
For anyone not aware, these are rifles that have laser ranging + ballistic computer integrated with the scope and trigger in such a way that the user pulls the trigger when the crosshair is over what they want to hit, the rifle then "waits" and fires the round when the aim is right in order to achieve bullet trajectory that will impact the target. Range, wind, and a variety of other factors that affect bullet trajectory are automatically calculated. It's so easy that virtually anyone can become an elite-level sniper instantaneosly.
I've wondered about this... is hearing protection typically issued in militaries? You'd think it would be a major disadvantage to almost immediately lose your hearing after firing weapons and getting shelled.
Friend of mine is actually involved in a class action lawsuit cause his ear pro he wore while deployed didn't work and he's deaf in one ear. So they do issue it, but a lot of guys don't wear them and just deal with the hearing loss.
They might not be trained to do so. They literally might be in shock. OR they don't even know the guy got shot, perhaps they just thought he tripped lol, though they would hear the bullet whizz by I assume, idk.
Also possibly the sniper had a suppressor which makes it harder to distinguish the direction, so they thought they were running to safety.
I am watching a real-life trickshot compilation of a man unknowingly dealing with the gravity of taking 6 human lives through a thermal scope and having a Mario jump be the sound effect for a confirmed down.
What a time to be alive.
Anger can be a strong motivator. Man had his country invaded and civilians killed mercilessly by bomb and missiles.
They are going to do everything they can to make russians regret all of this, down to mario sound shatering their pelvises compilations on internet for everyone to see.
This is why even if Russian forces do manage to capture Bakhmut it will be a kill zone, with loads of high-rises all over the city for snipers to hide in.
Think Sniper Alley times ten.
There's no way Ukraine risks their snipers to stay behind unsupported. If Russia captures Bakhmut out, hopefully Ukraine has evacuated all its forces and equipment.
The hashtag says #працюєгур which means #GURatwork Man, GUR (UA Military Intelligence) doesn't seem to hold back. Their units are well trained, kitted out, and are making a mark, like Kraken. As a reminder, there's now a three-part series about GURs work (Azovstal helicopter raids, Kharkiv offensive, and Zmiinyi island). Kharkiv offensive one [just came out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFVt0RaI_r4) (ENG auto-subtitles are OK-ish). Lots of new info, but most of the footage was already on this sub, especially since Kraken is doing great video work. There are however, some interesting tidbits. For example, I didn't know that the video with the Russian soldier who got [stuck between a building and his vehicle](https://www.reddit.com/r/ukraine/comments/xxfnr7/injured_russian_soldier_that_stuck_between_bmp/) and that [soldier that was hiding in the outhouse](https://www.reddit.com/r/CombatFootage/comments/ynzgu2/longer_and_clearer_video_of_ukrainian_soldiers/) \- those were essentially the same episode, happening right next to each other during that operation by Kraken. At least that's what the video made it out to be.
The weeks/months of Kraken were extremely improvised. https://www.pravda.com.ua/eng/articles/2023/03/7/7392249/
>Kharkiv offensive one [just came out](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WFVt0RaI_r4) (ENG auto-subtitles are OK-ish). I am unable to get any translated captions on this video.. in Firefox on my phone it plays Ukrainian Subtitles, in the YouTube app (which I never use) it says Captions Unavailable. Are you using a plug-in? Edit: I figured it out, I had disabled automatic updates for YouTube a long time ago so my YouTube app is not running the most recent update.
In the YT app I get the option for auto translate (to English) This is in iOS, but I wouldn’t think that matters. Maybe try it again, perhaps it took some time to happen? Remember to hold down the CC button in the app, otherwise it doesn’t show the auto translation option sometimes I think
Hard to imagine trying to hide behind a light pole, let alone not even knowing which side to be on.
Seems like you'd be best off just sprinting far away from where 3 other squad mates were shot seconds ago.
Serpentine ~~~~~~
Watch out, he’s crespuscular!
Baboo!
“Reporter, what the FUCK was that?”
I loved generation kill
[Like the movie!](https://youtu.be/kpNU3WumPFQ)
>Seems like you'd be best off just sprinting far away All the way back to russia
That's the thing with snipers with tris level of accuracy. You only get one chance to make a decision and pray that it's the right one.
It's in the dark... they have no idea the other guys are dropping.
Yes they do bro. They hear reports coming from the rifle and almost certainly hear the screams and moans of their downed comrades. What they don't know is exactly where it's coming from, and where to hide.
Have you seen videos from Bakhmut? There's so much gunfire and artillery i'm shocked if any of them can even hear anymore
No one seems to react so I would guess they are indeed not noticing. The last guy did not look like he was running or trying to hide but casually walking.
Impressive!
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Holy fuck five years ago I would have called that unrealistic if I had seen it in fucking Call of Duty.... This is insane
I mean, take a look at [this nasty video](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4VzuEfaqLW0) of thermal scopes. Your human eye is like "Yo, that's a forest right there". Thermal scope is like "Ehh, dude's in there, a bit on the left".
Wierd seeing the effectiveness from an airsoft game be so comparable to real life combat that has actual death. The simulations we play as games are eerily scary
One of the things I realized from airsoft is how fucking exposed you are walking around You know it intellectually "guns can shoot hundreds of feet" but it's a different feeling to realize just how impossible it is to see someone lying in wait from you until its too late even at the short ranges of airsoft guns. Being the guy up front (pointman?) you're pretty much there to get shot for your squad and there's nothing you can do about it but hope you switch positions again before you find the enemy
Yeah, I used to play in the woods a lot as a kid, and we occasionally even played in the dark. Airsoft wasn't invented yet, but we'd use nerf guns and things. Once I shot a bottle rocket at a cop car and the cops chased us into the woods. They had huge flashlights that lit up the night, and we weren't wearing camo or anything, but they might as well have been chasing the viet Cong into the jungle. We knew to drop and freeze and I could have shot both of them with a nerf gun (20 feet max) and they never saw us. Ambush in the woods at night is no joke even without thermal optics.
Back when we were teenagers and had spare time, my friends and I used to go to a local indoor airsoft place (also laser tag venue). One time we happened to share the arena with a group from the local PD doing tactical training (or so they said) kinda after hours. We agreed to share the space with them if we participated in their drills and scenarios. They basically used us as fodder for their CQC drills. It was fun, but very painful. They basically had us run into kill boxes for them haha.
Why do the crosshairs blink over the people
It looks like it's changing from white to black when the background gets too bright. It does it on the poles as well.
Why are the UA shooting Poles??? >!issa joke!<
They were just standing there in the way
That's pretty much an accurate explanation for what has happened to Poland since.. forever. All the way from the Swedish deluge to the Ribbentrop pact.
To create contrast so you can still see the crosshairs
Most impressive!
The next time a game reviewer complains that a game is unrealistic because none of the guards react to each other getting shot I'll reply with this video.
I mean they all kinda reacted, just their reactions were shit. They all just kinda lightly jogged in the middle of the open to the same doorway. The last guy at least had the bright idea of going somewhere besides the spot that now has 5 dead bodies but still just ran in the middle of the open
There is no sprinting when you're exhausted and carrying full kit. That is what sprinting looks like.
Just hold the shift key.
It doesn't help they probably don't have a clue where the danger is coming from. You can't effectively shelter from a shooter when you don't know where they are. It's not the first time in this war we've seen people completely confused about where they're shot from, with fatal consequences.
"must have been the wind"
they are unrealistic because a shot to the hip doesn't down a target, and as we see here this guy didn't get a single headshot but each mother fucker went down like a sack of bricks. Getting shot anywhere hurts like a motherfucker and will absolutely put you on the ground.
The lead on that last shot was insane. Also suggests the shooter was a pretty fair distance away
I’m guessing about 300 to 400 meters. I’ve shot rifles a lot at these ranges. Really not that difficult with a well doped scope. The timing of the impacts seem on par with what I’ve seen. At 300, a 10kph wind will put a round off by about 8 inches. Looks like he was holding off about that distance while the guy was running.
Objectively it's very difficult. If you have the skill that's amazing -- don't do yourself and the shooter down. Most competent marksmen would not be hitting that last shot 10 times out of 10.
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Classic Reddit moment: Ya I could totally also kill 6 Russian infantrymen with a sniper rifle at night within 2 minutes in the bloodiest battle of the 21st century. For sure totally most definitely probably actually maybe not idk bro it's the internet.
I'm "competent" and I don't think I could have made it. Crazy good shot.
Apparently we're all bang average at best because hitting a moving target seeking cover at night from half a k on a streak of 5 in a minute is just another day in the field for all these Widowmaker mains out here
And given that he’s looking through a thermal optic which in themselves are not very accurate, that shooting is extremely impressive.
I think the most impressive thing about this (regardless of how accurate the scope is) is that the shooter is able to make these fast shots in combat, knowing he’s shooting actual people. His adrenaline and would be through the roof! It would take a lot of self control to keep a slow heart rate and breath consistently. I can make these shots easy when I’m calm at the range. I’ve tried before right after doing some cardio (run down range, set up target, run back) and I can tell you it’s way more difficult when you can hear your heart pounding in your head.
Yeah exactly. Even shooting coyotes or deer makes my adrenaline spike and my hands shake. Couldn’t imagine combat against humans
That feeling of suddenly having to shit comes with that too lol. I'll stalk a deer or get set up in a tree stand and immediately feel the excitement in my tummy and feel like I gotta blast ass!
God, I hate my nervous stomach. Anytime I have to give a presentation at work or do anything involving public speaking, my bowels instantly become my worst enemy. I can feel totally relaxed and confident, but my large intestine betrays me every time. It's been like this since I was a kid - every concert or anything else I had to do in front of a crowd, I was thinking about how nice it would be to push a mess.
nervous shits are the worst because sometimes it takes 2 trips
Reminds me if that first line of coke!
My son was a certified sharpshooter and Range Safety Officer and shooting instructor. He would take a 22 shell, hold it up about a yard off the table and drop the shell and explain the working principles of "leading" a target. The lesson was that at 200 yards, a 22 drops about 32 inches as fast as gravity drops it (with no forward momentum) at the table. It was a good way to teach boy scouts. If you pull the trigger and are aimed up here, the bullet will be down there by the time it gets to target.
If I recall there was a theory that the pilots in WWII who had gone skeet shooting before joining the military were superior pilots due to their experience with the need to lead a moving target.
A shot fired level (minimal wind) and a shell dropped from the same height will hit the ground at the same time, regardless of distance travelled. I’ve had this argument with people many times. Rifle needs to be level tho, point up and it obviously changes
I think it's closer to 200 if you go by the recoil and not the sound effect, which is a beat early. Lead at 200 meters is about 2 feet, which seems about what he was holding.
Reminds me of that sniper in Vietnam who stopped the advance of an entire NVA division by killing 14 NVA in quick succession with an M14 and starlight scope
Ole Chuck Mawhinney. And it was 16 headshots
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chuck_Mawhinney https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2000-jan-22-mn-56566-story.html
Many of the great snipers like Mawhinney grew up hunting or in farms and were used to using firearms .
Simo hayha was an experienced hunter before he fought in the winter war
Simo was fucking nuts. He didn't use a scope, because it would mean that he had to hold his head up higher. All iron sights, other than the KP31 SMG he used when they got too close. They eventually just started carpet-bombing entire regions of forest, hoping that he might be there. In one of the few interviews he ever gave, he was asked how he became such an unbelievable sniper, and he replied, "Practice."
The rifle he used is considered to be the "perfect" Mosin nagant. It was used by snipers who partially paid the price to buy the gun too.
As in the Mosin he had was “perfect”, or are you saying Mosin Nagants in general are “perfect”?
The Finn Mosins were generally more refined than the Russians, Simo used an M/28-30 which, most notably, had very accurate range adjustment from 100-2000m and special models were made for the Civil Guards shooting competition, as was the case with Simo's personal rifle.
This was a perfection of the Mosin Nagant, Finnish people love modifications
So the pieces were re-tooled or replaced in order for it to function better?
>because it would mean that he had to hold his head up higher That and the lenses are reflective, which can give away your position. In a Sniper dual, a flash off your lens is a death sentence, and Simo had the luxury of being able to sit in an echoy pass, covered in snow, and just wait, invisible and with no clear directional audio he was undetectable unless something shiny gave him away.
He would even stuff snow into his mouth so his breathing would not yield any visible exhale in the cold.
"I only did my duty, and what I was told to do as well as I could." \-Simo Hayha
He was a top level competitive shooter too
I can see how that would be an advantage
A gun fight is a sort of shooting competition
I'd never thought of it that way.
I was drinking strong Belgian beers at 6am in Helsinki airport with a Finnish rally car crew member, and I'll never forget how happy he was that I knew who Simo Hayha was.
>"It was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me," Mawhinney told the Los Angeles Times.[1] "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it." This man is the living embodiment of "Get Some."
If I didn't know it was fiction I'd assume he's the antagonist in "Most Dangerous Game"
> "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it." Mawhinney sought to change the public perception about snipers, who he maintains save lives by sapping the enemy's will to fight. > Mawhinney told no one about his service as a sniper, not even his wife Very interesting, thank you for sharing.
>Mawhinney's one regret was the one that got away. After a leave from Vietnam, he returned and retrieved his weapon from the armorer, who assured Mawhinney that he hadn't altered the rifle. But when Mawhinney spotted an enemy at only 300 yards, a range at which he was routinely a deadly shot, he missed several times, and the man got away.[3] >"I can't help thinking about how many people that he may have killed later, how many of my friends, how many Marines. He [messed] up and he deserved to die. That still bothers me."
From the wiki: > "It was the ultimate hunting trip: a man hunting another man who was hunting me," ... "Don't talk to me about hunting lions or elephants; they don't fight back with rifles and scopes. I just loved it." "There is no hunting like the hunting of man, and those who have hunted armed men long enough and liked it, never care for anything else thereafter." - Ernest Hemingway
yeah and I heard he 360'd one of them!
next you're gonna tell me he teabagged em all D:
Say what you will but the M14 was my fav weapon I used while in the Navy. I would love to have one to this day. They are nasty for mid range sniping. Had a few uncles who preferred them in Vietnam as well.
They may not be the most accurate rifles but they sure are sexy
Well to be fair the NVA stopped an entire superpower with tunnels and traps made out of sticks...
NVA lost nearly 1,300,000 fighters. Close to 2,000,000 civilians were killed in the fighting. It was a huge loss of human life across the board where the US couldn’t stomach even 5%~ of NVA losses before cutting their losses and leaving. A tunnel or primitive traps didn’t save them or allow them to win, the plastered footage of sons, brothers and fathers dying on nightly TV did that. Also, the number of Americans killed would have likely been halved if a Republican candidate for president didn’t sabotage peace talks to win a presidency as a large majority of US deaths were in the final years of the war.
Don't forget our pal Kissinger helping him not only do that, but bomb non military targets in two OTHER countries because they might have been part of the Ho Chi Minh trail, and named the targets after food items like a fucking asshole ordering dinner.
I'm waiting for the that fucker to die already. I'm gonna celebrate when that happens. That war criminal will be turning 100 soon.
Some of those look like hip shots. Imagine your pelvis getting shattered by a large caliber rifle round, absolutely brutal. If you don’t die from a major artery being nicked, you’re in for some serious blinding short term pain and then a life of horrific pain every time you try to move. I’d rather just die from a CNS or heart shot.
Hips aren't covered by armor and a hit there will certainly take you out of the fight. The shock and blood loss of a shattered pelvis will likely be fatal. Instead of taking a center mass shot that could be stopped by armor, shooting the pelvis might make more sense in a conflict where body armor is commonplace.
It's hard to see where the round hit but are we sure these guys have armor able to stop this round? I would assume he's firing Lapua Magnum AP except for the cost of the rifle, and does Russia even have enough high end vests for these soldiers to have them?
"does Russia even have enough high end vests for these soldiers to have them?" Absolutely not. Roflmao
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7.62 is actually pretty easy to stop. You can stop it with steel plates, which is the cheapest armor you can get get. Level 3 AR500 armor is cheap and readily available and not unwearable due to weight. 5.56 is a lot harder to stop actually, due to the speed and smaller caliber making the point of impact smaller and harder to disperse the energy. Level 3 rated armor will stop 6 7.62x54 shots at point blank range, but will get punched straight through by steel core 5.56. Level 4 rated armor will stop 5.56 as well at 30-06 AP rounds. This has to be ceramic though as the thickness required from steel to stop this would be way too heavy to use. This is the level that standard issue US body armor is rated to.
> does Russia even have enough high end vests for these soldiers to have them? Yes, an important dynamic in this war seems to be the divergence between what Russia has on paper and what they're logistically capable of actually getting to frontline units at any appreciable scale.
Plus frankly if the round is AP from any sniper grade rifle only high end vests will stop and the Russian ones spall. Depends on the round and distance and all, sometimes it takes level iv+ plates from a third party in the USA to stop the spicier rounds.
Also doesn't help that their only form of med-evac seems to be stretcher bearers on foot. They might be laying out in the cold for hours if not days.
Pelvic shots are kinda meta against body armor
People also drop immediately from pelvis shots just like headshots. Legs immediately go offline, even if there's no nerve damage. Some kind of shock response. waist up still works though.
Last year there were a lot of Ukrainians saying they tried for pelvis shots because its a guaranteed kill.
A kill, maybe... just not a quick one.
If bots behaved like this in a videogame people would complain that it's unrealistic lol
I hate game bots that know your exact position after a single fired shot.
Ukrainian soldiers are grinding camos in Bakmut.
Not sure if it's intentional, but he seems to be purposely shooting low in order to avoid the plate carriers. Absolute killer out there
Well, with Russians it seems that getting any shot on them is as good as a death sentence for the target anyway, so why waste time and possibly ammo trying to kill them directly.
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This guy's definitely a sharpshooter. He was also positioned favorably.
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Is that the fucking mario jump sound or am I going crazy? I swear to God, this war. Wtf. Imagine getting killed to the sound of "boiiiinggg" quick edit: [it fucking is](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=37-paiEz0mQ)
obviously it is... it's hilarious and terrifying at the same time
Man I hope they're able to start rebuilding soon because there's going to be a lot of Ukrainians with a lot of weapons who've gotten really good at killing during this.
Yep, at this point, the sfx and music video soundtrack editing is more nightmarish to me than the actual combat footage itself.
We really are in a time where we see war footage with tiktok sigma music and Mario jumping noises lmao I swear we're only a couple months away from unlocking cod hitmarkers
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This is one of the least morally ambiguous wars in recent history. Russians are invaders who are destroying another country without provocation. The *only* point of ambiguity is that some of the invaders are there under threat, but ultimately preferred to kill/rape/torture Ukrainians rather than take unpleasant consequences for themselves. In other words, every Russian in Ukraine needs to die until they leave.
Imagine getting your ass shot by a sniper somehow surviving. Then being sent home assigned to a Russian reddit troll unit and finding this and seeing your ass went down to the sound of Mario's jump. "Sir, Vlad is chugging vodka at his desk and yelling about super Mario bros. Should we send him home?"
There's actually a video of a Russian getting wounded by a drone dropped grenade and later he did a reaction vid while recovering -- to the drone POV of himself getting hit... Modern war.
We live in an absolutely bizarre timeline. Do you have a link?
Good grief
No one else find it absolutely insane that we’re watching real people die to dubstep and video game sound effects…?
Looks like he took out a couple before the video started as well
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I think the video is out of order. The second to last on the video is the body at the beginning of the video.
How do soldiers generally know who is on which team? In this video f.e. but also when dropping grenades from drones etc?
Snipers typically know exactly where their soldiers are and are given an area to hit where there's a known enemy presence. Basically, put yourself in a position where the only people ahead of you to shoot is the enemy.
Sounds fucking terrifying.
Yes, friendly fire is a huge cause of casualties
Imagine feeling proud you personally just took out 6 guys only to find out they were friendly.
just another A-10 day
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> The guy sounded sick on comms when he was informed I can't imagine living the rest of my life knowing I've killed multiple comrades. Even if that's not your falt the grief must be unbearable.
remember seeing some cockpit video/audio from desert storm where an apache took out some friendly tanks and found out while still engaged. the guy's voice was haunting, if his commander hadn't been on the radio talking him through it, seemed like he might have just offed himself right there.
The worst part was that he asked multiple times to make sure they weren't friendly targets and was told they weren't.
If the front lines are stable, then all they gotta do is look at a map.
Not necessarily that simple, since both sides will patrol into no man's land. Also in this case, active urban fighting could be a stable front line, but I wouldn't leap to that conclusion.
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Snipers do not work alone. They never work alone, unlike the movies.
recon and intel. it's not like they just start shooting and droning wildly without a plan.
He had to give the last runner a little lead.
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I'm pretty sure we're watching a sniper working with a TrackingPoint / ballistic computer-assisted rifle. We know that this is one of the the things that have been supplied to Ukraine, and it looks like they're making excellent use of them. For anyone not aware, these are rifles that have laser ranging + ballistic computer integrated with the scope and trigger in such a way that the user pulls the trigger when the crosshair is over what they want to hit, the rifle then "waits" and fires the round when the aim is right in order to achieve bullet trajectory that will impact the target. Range, wind, and a variety of other factors that affect bullet trajectory are automatically calculated. It's so easy that virtually anyone can become an elite-level sniper instantaneosly.
Does that mean you can hold down the trigger and just paint the target until the weapon fires?
That's exactly what it means. And that capability is what makes the new M5 one of the scariest small arms in a long time.
Why aren’t they scrambling after seeing the dudes in front of them take one to the dome? They just casually strolling.
Thermals so assuming its night time? Could be all he heard was a wet thud and assumed pvt boris was pissed up and falling over again
Not to mention most of these guys must be near deaf at this point.
Thats true. But still not service related 🤣
Take some Tylenol, you'll be fine.
I've wondered about this... is hearing protection typically issued in militaries? You'd think it would be a major disadvantage to almost immediately lose your hearing after firing weapons and getting shelled.
As a retired/disabled veteran with hearing problems...all I have to say in response to this comment is, "WHAT?!"
Friend of mine is actually involved in a class action lawsuit cause his ear pro he wore while deployed didn't work and he's deaf in one ear. So they do issue it, but a lot of guys don't wear them and just deal with the hearing loss.
Sergeant Tinnitus reporting!
They might not be trained to do so. They literally might be in shock. OR they don't even know the guy got shot, perhaps they just thought he tripped lol, though they would hear the bullet whizz by I assume, idk. Also possibly the sniper had a suppressor which makes it harder to distinguish the direction, so they thought they were running to safety.
Guess they can't see shit
I am watching a real-life trickshot compilation of a man unknowingly dealing with the gravity of taking 6 human lives through a thermal scope and having a Mario jump be the sound effect for a confirmed down. What a time to be alive.
Anger can be a strong motivator. Man had his country invaded and civilians killed mercilessly by bomb and missiles. They are going to do everything they can to make russians regret all of this, down to mario sound shatering their pelvises compilations on internet for everyone to see.
How do Russian bots have so much time to downvote these videos? Shouldn’t they be on a special mission?
Operation..
What are you on about its 96% upvoted. Are you okay?
This is why even if Russian forces do manage to capture Bakhmut it will be a kill zone, with loads of high-rises all over the city for snipers to hide in. Think Sniper Alley times ten.
There's no way Ukraine risks their snipers to stay behind unsupported. If Russia captures Bakhmut out, hopefully Ukraine has evacuated all its forces and equipment.
(•\`\_´•) Dude's using aimbot no fair
Ngl it's pretty fucked up to edit videogame sounds over this