Impressive feat. But more and more, it seems like some of the rifles (systems?) being used to make these extreme long range shots are so specific purpose or specialist that they have minimal general purpose sniping application. They are, in effect, crew served weapons. Good, but we’ve had impressive artillery for a while now.
It seems like the lines are getting blurred - “sniper weapons systems” are becoming shoulder mounted artillery, snipers are becoming artillery crewmen and spotters are becoming field artillery forward observers. All fine and necessary, but again, we’ve been doing artillery well for a while now.
I still think of a sniper as a complete rifleman with superb fieldcraft, the ultimate combination of shooter and stalker, not the operator of a barely mobile “system.”
I think I’m more impressed with what has come to be called the “DM” and “DMR” concept.
It seems like the lines are getting blurred - “sniper weapons systems” are becoming shoulder mounted artillery, snipers are becoming artillery crewmen and spotters are becoming field artillery forward observers. All fine and necessary, but again, we’ve been doing artillery well for a while now.
I still think of a sniper as a complete rifleman with superb fieldcraft, the ultimate combination of shooter and stalker, not the operator of a barely mobile “system.”
I think I’m more impressed with what has come to be called the “DM” and “DMR” concept.
