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Russian sniper group in the high ground alert.

newspaper correspondent Zhang Qi

sniper for the significance of modern warfare, the battle through Sirte, Libya to the world a new understanding. Russia, “Izvestia,” 18 reported that the Russian Defense Ministry has decided that from December 1 this year, the four military regions in Russia began in full swing to develop front-line sniper action, each brigade unit to be equipped with a sniper. Russian Chief of General Staff believes that the most recent decades on the battlefield, snipers its unique position, still play an irreplaceable role, the role can even be comparable to the reorganization of the tanks. Russia will train one thousand sniper

“News” reported that the Russian military training program in 2016 out of nearly 1,000 snipers, for each motorized infantry brigade and tank brigades are equipped with 45-90 sniper. After specialized training, these snipers to 1-2 km on the effective destruction of the enemy. Russian Defense Ministry source said, at least every sniper special training centers in the 3-4 years of training. These coaches have been trained sniper Minsk over Al Gore in 索尔涅奇诺 training, will be assigned to various military training centers. Currently, the Department of Defense has developed a detailed teaching plan, so that snipers are a range of knowledge and skills to master, including the acceptance of call fire, to guide Army Aviation and anti-sniper skills such as training.

addition to training snipers, Russia also plans to update a large number of sniper rifles. Russian Military Forecasting Center Director Anatoly ? Choi Draganov said Russian attacks on the new unit is very likely with a foreign-made equipment. As the old Russian SVD sniper rifle with some shortcomings exist, therefore, the Russian Defense Ministry intends to purchase the British “Accuracy International” sniper rifle. Allegedly, the attacks to equip the newly formed unit, the future will need more than 10,000 Russian sniper rifle teams. Snipers not only to hit more accurately

of the sniper’s first requirement is to be able to target the long-range precision shooting. Some time ago for the World Championships in military and police snipers, requiring team members in the 10-meter-high building on fire 140 meters outside the mineral water bottle the size of the target. In addition to accuracy, the sniper also distance requirements, the advantages of long-range sniper can play. Longest record of the current attacks by the British “the most cattle sniper” Craig ? Harrison in Afghanistan in November 2009 to create, when he succeeded with his rifle killed L115A3 than 2475 m Taliban militants. In addition to talent outside the trained shoot with great precision thanks to a lot of training is often said that sniper bullet, “Hey,” out. That the British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher during a visit to the British Special Air Service regiment of sniper training, there was a consumption of ammunition expressed surprise and asked “save bullets,” but the military was rejected.

In addition, the sniper’s learning as well. For example, the target of choice is quite complex. When a tank attack, the first shot is a long car or the driver has a view that countries have different principles. U.S. military snipers and even make guest appearances forward air guide member, the role of artillery observers. In addition, how to choose sniper positions, how to camouflage, infiltration, hidden, surveillance, each subject requires a lot of training and combat exercises. Russian expert Anatoly ? Choi Draganov said train a qualified sniper take a very long process, “Alpha” team members at least three years of training, and National Security Council staff training time of 2 years. Sniper tactics is far from obsolete

Although the true sense of the sniper back in World War I was born, are often the modern battlefield missiles, aircraft and other high-tech equipment play a leading role, but the fact that, snipers still a significant effect. Moreover, the more technologically developed countries, more emphasis on sniper tactics in actual combat use. United States and Britain and other countries have attached great importance to the training of snipers, the U.S. Stryker Brigade sniper team has three attachment to the company-level units. U.S. “seal” commando sniper shooter to rescue hostages by Somali pirates wars also pass as a classic. ? Russian armed forces chief of staff Nikolai Makarov and even that, in recent years, warfare has changed dramatically, most battles are conducted in cities, the increasing importance of snipers, or even its necessity Asia in the reorganization of the tanks. Russian and Soviet troops on the battlefield has been widely used in the sniper. When the Soviet Army in World War II already has a number of snipers. By 1945, the number of Soviet snipers with each battalion had reached 18. But in the Soviet Union, the Russian sniper significant reduction. Especially in the two Chechen wars, the Russian military also eat the loss Chechen snipers. Thus, the Russian military establishment made a trip in the preparation of the decision sniper unit. ▲

(“Global Times” October 20, 2011 No. 08 version)

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