Can helicopter sniping ability be permanently improved to the master level?

The system is really generous!

"Su Team?Su Team!"

When Su Qi was a little lost, he suddenly heard Luo Xing's voice. He shuddered and reacted.

"Su Team?" Luo Xing looked at Su Qi a little strangely.

"It's okay, I just got a little away, okay, let's start!"

"Captain Su, let me introduce my gun to you!" Luo Xing said.

"Thank you, but no, I already know!" Su Qi nodded with a smile, then lay down and began to prepare.

Luo Xing was originally ready to explain in detail, but after seeing this scene, he opened his mouth and said nothing more. He just turned his head and looked at another team member. The team member understood and immediately operated the small drone and flew the drone into the air.

Su Qi's shooting target was pulled into the air 600 meters away by a small drone.

"Su Team, the target is in place and you can start shooting!" Luo Xing kept looking at the small drone with his telescope. Seeing that everything was ready, he turned his head and said to Su Qi.

Bang--

As soon as he finished speaking, the gunshots of the sniper rifle began to sound.

In the instant fire, Li Dong, who was in charge of observation, said tremblingly: "I hit it... I hit it!"

Got hit?

Luo Xing looked at Su Qi in disbelief.

Su Qi stood up, removed the magazine, pulled the bolt, closed the security, and returned the gun to Luo Xing: "Luo Xing, this gun is really good, it's a good gun, your level is really high!"

But Luo Xing was stunned and did not reach out to take the gun. After a few seconds, he looked at Su Qi: "Captain Su, how did you do it?"

"Nothing, think more and practice more!"

"Su Team, I have fired thousands of bullets, but why are you not as good as yours?Su Team, your helicopter sniper - it's really too powerful. Can you teach me?"

"Of course, we have time to discuss together in the future and communicate with each other!"

"Captain Su, please teach me some experience now!" Luo Xing couldn't wait to say immediately when he heard this.

Su Qi was stunned for a moment, then couldn't help laughing and laughed: "Okay, let's communicate together now. I think that if you want to improve the level of helicopter sniping, you must first have a certain degree of understanding of helicopter sniping.

I think that unlike traditional sniper tactics, helicopter sniper tactics have a new definition of how to maintain the stability of the shooting posture.

You also know that because the helicopter's engine and transmission gearbox will continuously produce high-frequency vibrations during work, even if the aircraft is hovering, the person on board can still feel the huge vibration that makes the teeth tremble.

In order to gain unprecedented maneuverability, snipers need to spend more energy on overcoming aircraft vibration interference. This multi-purpose shooting state is undoubtedly a new challenge for snipers who are used to shooting based on fixed positions."

Luo Xing nodded and sighed: "Yes, this is the biggest challenge for helicopter sniping! I have not been able to completely solve it so far, I can only overcome it!"

Su Qi nodded too.

He is now a sniper master, and he has a more thorough and in-depth understanding of this feature.

He continued: "Another problem that helicopter sniping tactics needs to face is the powerful downward-washing flow generated by the main rotor. From a ballistic perspective, the bullet leaves the barrel with the highest initial velocity and the strongest kinetic energy. In addition, sniper rifles mostly use large-caliber heavy bullets, so the stability will not be greatly affected.

In addition, the impact range of the under-scrubber air flow is limited, and the ballistic impact time is relatively short.

But for snipers who have a slight difference, they should shoot targets hundreds of meters away from an unstable platform, and they should not ignore the impact of the downward scrubbing flow.

If it is a medium-sized general-purpose helicopter, the impact of downscrubbing airflow is relatively limited. If you replace it with a heavy transportation helicopter, the intensity and range of downscrubbing airflow will increase significantly. Just maintaining a stable shooting posture on the helicopter requires a lot of energy and time. If the ballistic corrections required for the relative position of the target are taken into account, the problem will become more complicated.

Although there were shooting training for moving targets in previous sniper courses, the premise was that the shooter was still, so the main consideration was the correction amount needed for the target to move. However, when sniping on a helicopter, even if the pilot is first-class in technology, it is impossible to completely offset the influence of turbulence or wind speed. Snipers often need to face all-round displacement or shaking from up, down, left and right. In this case, the correction amount of the sniper must take into account the direction of movement, speed, height and the relative movement direction, speed, and height of the target to obtain an effective shooting solution, which is undoubtedly much more complicated."

"In addition, although the sniper team can coordinate the course, speed and altitude with the pilot, the pilot cannot do it 100%, because he also has to consider the surrounding terrain and weather conditions.

If the target position is in the combat area, the helicopter also needs to frequently use tactical maneuvering actions to avoid ground artillery fire.

What's worse is that because the stability of the helicopter is unpredictable, most of the sniper's error estimation can only rely on experience. After estimating the correction amount, you must seize the most stable time for the helicopter to fire, just like in the basic shooting teaching example, you must breathe stably before pulling the trigger. This requires the shooter to find out the common rhythm between himself and the helicopter.

On the other hand, because helicopters generally have the advantage of commanding height, the position energy advantage generated by gravity can offset the ballistic interference caused by some of the main rotor's under-scrubbing airflow, which also makes the sniper need to appropriately reduce the corrections made to ballistic descent."

After a smile, Su Qi continued: "Although there are many difficulties in helicopter sniping, it can greatly increase the mission flexibility and combat range of the sniper team. For this reason, we special forces still have to try our best to overcome various innate adverse factors such as the use of helicopters as sniper carrier platforms.

I think that given that the stability of the helicopter is closely related to the sniper hit rate, it is very important to first choose a suitable helicopter as the combat platform. According to my experience, I think the current helicopter is very suitable as the sniper platform. This helicopter not only has enough internal space, but also has good stability. In addition, the size of the cabin sliding door is large enough, and the side door of the cabin is installed in an independent position will not affect the aiming and shooting of the sniper team."

"In the early days of our departure, we did not have a suitable gun-mounting platform on the helicopter, so we were used to shooting with guns in a sitting or kneeling position.

Later, some people tried to use backpacks and sandbags to build temporary gun support, but the problem was that during flight, backpacks and sandbags often slipped off, and when the cabin door was opened, the backpacks and sandbags still needed to be reinforced, which was inconvenient to use.

Later, we got inspiration from the US military and switched to using elastic firearm straps and paracords to make temporary firearm suspension racks.

The advantage of this system is that the gun strap has a certain elasticity and can offset part of the vibration during flight of the helicopter, thereby indirectly increasing the stability of the gun when holding the gun. The suspension method does not occupy the cabin floor space, nor does it have to worry about flying everywhere on the bracket when the violent vibration is shaking.

More importantly, snipers no longer need to spend time adjusting their backpacks or sandbags, and can choose their shooting angles more freely to cope with the changing helicopter flight movements.

But in actual combat, we also found that the suspension rack sometimes blocks the field of view, especially when snipers use scopes, some of the field of view will become blind spots.

So we can change to a simpler method, that is, hang an elastic belt horizontally at the hatch, and directly span the gun on the belt as a support. This will save you the time and energy of making an additional suspension rack. Each helicopter can be used as a sniper platform as long as it is hung with an elastic belt. Secondly, there will be no things blocking the shooter's scope, reducing the shooting impact caused by blind spots in the field of vision."

When Luo Xing heard Su Qi say this, his eyes became brighter. He nodded heavily and agreed with Su Qi's experience.

Su Qi glanced at Luo Xing and said with a smile: "However, helicopter sniping tactics are not elixirs. Although they have support, they are fired on an unstable platform. Therefore, their maximum effective range is generally about 600 meters. Even if they use a 12.7mm caliber sniper rifle, the farthest cannot exceed 1,000 meters.

Moreover, in order to reduce risks, when performing helicopter sniping missions, pilots will most likely hover at a certain distance before flying into the range until the sniper team calibrates the target and determines the entry angle. They are required to open fire in the shortest time to reduce the time when the aircraft is exposed to ground air defense fire.

Therefore, for helicopter sniping tactics, compared with superb shooting skills, it is more important whether the crew can fully cooperate with the sniper team, because only when the two sides cooperate tacitly can the best balance be achieved in the ever-changing shooting parameters. If the spirit of teamwork is lacking, this tactic may only become a fancy move.

So I suggest you can practice more on the plane, not only practicing skills, but also cooperating with the crew. What do you think!"

"Okay, I'll listen to Team Su!" Luo Xing nodded hurriedly.
Chapter completed!