Sniper

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

For other uses, see Sniper (disambiguation).

Sniper

US Army sniper team shooting from within a room in Afghanistan with M24 SWS, 19 October 2006.
Occupation
Names	Sniper
Activity sectors	use of high-precision rifles

Royal Marines snipers with L115A1 sniper rifles

Arkansas Army National Guard soldiers practice sniper marksmanship at their firing range near Baghdad, Iraq, in 2005.

French Foreign Legion snipers using the Hecate II (front) and the FR-F2 (back) in Afghanistan

Polish snipers unit during November Uprising

A sniper is a highly trained marksman who operates in one to two man teams which maintain close visual contact with the enemy and engages targets from concealed positions or physical distances exceeding the detection capabilities of the enemy personnel, without being detected. These sniper teams operate independently, with little combat asset support from their parent units. Snipers typically have highly selective and specialized training and possess high-precision rifles, optics and many times, sophisticated communication assets to feed valuable combat information back to their units.

In addition to marksmanship, military snipers are trained in camouflage, field craft, infiltration, reconnaissance and observation.^[1] Snipers are especially effective when deployed within the terrain of urban warfare, or jungle warfare.

PISTOL

Pistol