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Question: how hard was it for the snipers to take out the pirates?

Phokus

Phokus

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Maybe i missed something, but the snipers were on a boat, right? I imagine the boat wasn't exactly steady... how do you compensate for rocking up and down the whole time?
 
on a boat mother fucker.

uh, dude, you predict how boat's gonna move by sitting in position for a long time.
 
It kinda helped that they were towing the boat and slowly pulling it in closer until the jackass pirates noticed and stuck their heads out to see.

 
Originally posted by: Fayd
on a boat mother fucker.

uh, dude, you predict how boat's gonna move by sitting in position for a long time.
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Well, i've never been a sniper before (except for counterstrike 😉)

I'm wondering how much harder it is to do on a boat rather than on land... i imagine doing it on land is easy as pie.
 
Originally posted by: Phokus
Maybe i missed something, but the snipers were on a boat, right? I imagine the boat wasn't exactly steady... how do you compensate for rocking up and down the whole time?
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naval gunners have done it for centuries, i would imagine seals aren't any different.
 
Well for one thing, they were only about 25 meters away. All the snipers had to account for is the waves and windage. If they were on a big enough ship the effects of the waves would be minimal I would assume.
 
Originally posted by: IcebergSlim
big boats don't move all that much.
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that is true...big ass boats are fairly stable in calm waters...also i bet these were some of the best snipers available because it was a presidential order
 
Originally posted by: ElFenix
Originally posted by: Phokus
Maybe i missed something, but the snipers were on a boat, right? I imagine the boat wasn't exactly steady... how do you compensate for rocking up and down the whole time?
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naval gunners have done it for centuries, i would imagine seals aren't any different.
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Um, aren't naval gunners usually just trying to hit other ships, not individual people?

Those were some bad ass shots, no matter what anyone says.
 
Originally posted by: jtvang125
Well for one thing, they were only about 25 meters away. All the snipers had to account for is the waves and windage. If they were on a big enough ship the effects of the waves would be minimal I would assume.
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This.

And at 25 meters I doubt they even needed to account for wind, just the effect of the waves, if any. One would think the timing of 3 shots/3 snipers would be the critical thing.
 
Originally posted by: sygyzy
naval gunners have done it for centuries, i would imagine seals aren't any different.
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Yeah, shooting missles and giant machine guns is the same as being a sniper

Why didn't they just use a helicopter? Pop them from miles out.
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WTF?
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What, you never played Silent Scope? Looked pretty easy to me! 😛
 
Obviously not too incredibly difficult for them as all 3 of them hit their target perfectly. I'm sure there was a crap load of training to get to that skill level if they did actually achieve the rank of "sniper".

I especially loved how the navy said "gee, those seas are rough. To help you out we'll tow you to much calmer waters, you know..because we want to steady...err, I mean help you."
 
Hitting the targets wouldn't be terribly difficult... I think they said it was like 100 feet or something which is nothing for those snipers. The boat would introduce some variables, but at 100 feet all that would be negligible. The hard part is really coordinating so they all fired at the same time and when they all had a target, but I'm sure that's one of the things they train for.
 
I know that police, etc, have binoculars with either an accelerometer - it's pretty amazing. Looking at a target, even with waves, it's perfectly still.
 
In the dark, on a moving platform, firing simultaneous shots at three moving targets in windy conditions from about 80-100 feet out.

Snipers rock.

It was probably difficult but that is what they train for.

Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Why didn't they just use a helicopter? Pop them from miles out.
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😕 The most powerful sniper rifles are only good from about a mile or so out. Trying to shoot from a helicopter is probably even more difficult than shooting from the rear deck of a destroyer.

Watch Top Sniper on the Military Channel sometime. They had an episode where the snipers were shooting at targets from helicopters. Only a couple even got one hit.
 
"Since Vietnam, the military sniper weapon has been a bolt-action .30-caliber Remington rifle, effective to a thousand yards. In the past two decades, however, heavier-caliber weapons have been deployed to greatly further the shooter's range.

Now, using .50-caliber weapons, snipers regularly hit beyond a mile, and there's a whole new lineup of weapons between .30 and .50 calibers -- the .338 Lapua, the .416 Barrett, the .408 CheyTac -- that commandeer the range between 1,000 and 2,000 yards. On top of that, laser range-finding and chip-driven portable software enable the shooter to solve heretofore impenetrable ballistic equations, and index their sights precisely for that one-shot kill way, way out there."
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Washington Post has a series of interesting articles about this incident right now: http://www.washingtonpost.com/...2583.html?hpid=topnews
 
I'd like to know how many people in this thread saying it wouldn't be that tough are actual naval snipers? Or even regular snipers?

And no, I don't mean Far Cry or Crysis.
 
Originally posted by: dainthomas
I'd like to know how many people in this thread saying it wouldn't be that tough are actual naval snipers? Or even regular snipers?

And no, I don't mean Far Cry or Crysis.
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I'm no sniper, but I've shot in the National Matches at Camp Perry, so I've shot out to 600 yards (fun).
 
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