That is very impressive. I hope people understand the kind of factors at play in a precision shot over that distance. When I worked at the School of Infantry, I got to know the SNCOIC of the Scout Sniper School. I’ve done some 800m shooting with an m40, and got to shoot some tank hulks with the SASR at about 1200m, and that was tough. Cant imagine shooting at over 4x that distance at a point target. Lets also account for luck here (or unlucky for Johnny Jihad). Lets say that gun has a .5 Minute of Angle accuracy, which the manufacturer claims. 1 MOA at 1000yds is roughly a 10" diameter shot group. 3540m is about 3900 yds, which would make this gun capable of about a 20" group at that distance. The average width of a man in a straight head up silhouette is 20" (B Mod target). So in theory, assuming you have everything dialed in correctly, that bullet will be guaranteed to hit somewhere within a 20" diameter ring around your aim point. For this sniper to hit a man sized target, at that range, absolutely amazing to me. Story time is over, carry on.
Yeah, I read that at that distance curvature of the Earth comes into play, plus we’re talking about the speed of sound being 375 yards/second then that’s a 8.2 second delay between the bullet reaching the target and the sound being heard. An odd thing is that if anyone saw the muzzle flash then they actually had time to duck.
8.2 seconds. Well, I know my son is safe from Canadian snipers then. He can’t sit still for 3 seconds.
Oh…LOL…I thought you were saying bullet flight time…that is just the sound…duh…
The best guess at the initial velocity of the bullet from the assumed muzzle type, would be 2820 fps, so that’s about 8+ seconds in the air regardless of hearing the sound. It’s a bullet drop of 750 feet as well (apparently he was ‘military advising’ from a high-rise, so that must have helped). Because we don’t know the exact location we can’t take the Earth’s Coriolis effect into account like they had to though. A crazy shot.
Charts here.
hope everyone is alright.
Not sure if it was posted in one of the other threads…but the VFA-27 “Shoot 'Em If You Got 'Em” preview cruise video (2014) is sweet…
Yup the documentary was called Dambusters and they built a small damn in Canada for the test.
Watch this video for some great pilot commentary and a camera of the bomb bay and drop
Buffalo Airways DC4 maybe?
That is not a small misshap! It’s very improper for an aircraft to be upside down, very uncommon!
I really, really love that sketch…
somehow it reminds me of this
Thumbnail is all lies just bbc clickbait
Nothing mind blowing shown here… but here it is nonetheless
Anyone else watch that just staring at the guys face thinking ‘this is a bad video’ and not realizing it could be moved around with the mouse cursor as a sphere video?
That was a great show. Nat Geo? Except for they weren’t doing it at night with a bunch of ack ack coming their way 
Yee Haa! … about as much yee haa you can get out of an aircraft carrier I suppose 
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