Chapter 462 Helicopter Sniper(2/2)
The ballistics of the bullet are straight, and facing the undulating natural landforms and irregular artificial buildings, countless shooting dead corners often form.
In order to cooperate with the battle situation, the sniper team not only needs to get off the car and find a suitable shooting position, but also needs to change the position at any time depending on the situation. The overall time spent has not changed much.
In the east-non-offshore seas, the US military also faces the problem of untimely positioning, which is particularly obvious in anti-piracy operations.
Due to the wide sea surface and limited speed of ships, even if they keep moving forward at full speed, the target ship may have escaped every day long. Moreover, the commanding heights suitable for shooting on modern combat ships are relatively limited, which makes the difficulty of sniping repeatedly increase.
Based on the above reasons, the US sniper team has developed a new tactic of using helicopters as a mobile shooting position.
Since the helicopter can freely adjust the altitude and orientation of the air stagnation and transform it into a mobile shooting position, it can greatly enhance the maneuverability of the sniper team.
Through close cooperation with the aircraft pilot, even in complex environments such as urban warfare or mountain warfare, snipers can still easily select the best shooting angle and maintain the advantage of commanding heights at any time.
If the target wants to use terrain to cover the sniper team, the helicopter's maneuverability can immediately take the sniper team to another altitude and shooting angle suitable for firing, allowing the sniper to quickly capture the mission target.
In addition, helicopter sniping tactics have also greatly expanded the combat range of the sniper team.
In the past, a sniper team could at most control a block or a valley pass, but when used with a helicopter, a sniper team could often have a view of a town or multiple roads. As for the shortcomings, it was also obvious that it lost its concealment.
In anti-pirate operations, the combination of helicopters and sniper teams is also very powerful. Through high-power optical sights, the snipers on the helicopter can accurately identify the ship's condition and personnel activities within a range of hundreds of meters and use it as an effective reference for further actions to report it to the fleet commander in a timely manner.
Once the fire order is issued, the sniper can quickly choose a truly threatening target to open fire, reducing additional damage caused by naval guns or other weapons attacks.
More importantly, the combination of helicopters and sniper teams can greatly shorten the reaction time, avoiding the danger of high-value ships being exposed to the simple range of shoulder-mounted rockets for the purpose of boarding and inspecting the temporary inspection. It is of great significance to actual combat.
It is precisely because of seeing the great value of helicopter sniping that Su Qi repeatedly reminded Yang Rui and the others to practice helicopter sniping well.
However, this course is still blank for our army, so even Su Qi doesn't know how to practice it.
What he didn't expect was that Yang Rui and the others had invented such a device.
Chapter completed!