Tag: sniper

  • Top Shot – The History Channel

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    In each episode, contenders will face team and elimination challenges inspired by real events in history, from Wild West shootouts to modern-day sniper missions. Every challenge will reveal the weapons, technologies and tactics of a different era, while hi-speed HD cameras capture the skillful execution of each test with breathtaking precision in extreme slow-motion. One…

  • Taliban Snipers in Marja Afghanistan

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    For several days, and in several places, competent and deliberate marksmen fired on Marine patrols. A video today presents one such event, a firefight between the Marines of Kilo Company, Third Battalion, Sixth Marines, and Taliban fighters, including at least one Taliban gunman the Marines considered to be a sniper. Full Story – HERE Very…

  • Segway Sniper Practice

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    [youtube width=”560″ height=”340″]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khoLEzWUtVA[/youtube] Pretty awesome idea to use them for training. You know it’s doing a good job of impersonating a walking human when it looks creepy in action.  I wish there was some range I could go to and give that a shot.  I want every one of those RMP (robotic mobility platform) Segways…

  • The Distant Executioner – Vanity Fair

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    Another very well written article from Vanity Fair.  I started keeping an eye on their website ever since their article on Erik Prince of Xe (Blackwater) back in December of last year. You shoot one man, you terrify a thousand. That was the theory outside of Afghanistan. Through generations of warfare, it’s what sniping was…

  • Star Wars Walkers In Range – Fire At Will

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    It’s all fun and games until they start shooting back with the blasters and laser cannons, and the stormtroopers start pouring out. Hope our guys have armor piercing bullets. :P

  • Deer Hunter or Sniper?

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    This is an amazing shot: The end result was really not what I expected was going to happen.  At first I was expecting there to be an exclamation of “woOOOOOOOOOOOOOO Like shootin fish in a barrel!!!!”. Hat Tip: Say Uncle