"When I look at this gun, I know that your ability is stronger than the best sniper in our Black Dragon Commando!"

The more Su Qi looked at it, the more surprised he became. The more he looked at it, the more he fell in love with this sniper rifle. The more he looked at it, the more he praised Luo Xing.

Luo Xing originally didn't have much expectations for Su Qi, but now when he heard his words, his eyes suddenly lit up.

Hearing Su Qi's compliment, he felt a little embarrassed and smiled: "I usually just mess around with it, but Captain Su laughed at me!"

Su Qi admired it carefully, then picked up Luo Xing's Eight-Eight Sniper and lay on the equipment they invented.

He wanted to give it a good try.

[Ding——You prepare carefully and snipe carefully. You want to show your skills in front of your comrades and give everyone enough confidence. Your sniper ability is permanently upgraded to the master level. Your helicopter sniper ability is permanently upgraded to the master level. You have a tacit understanding with the observer.

, permanently upgraded to the master level]

Hearing this voice, Su Qi was startled.

Is sniping ability permanently upgraded to master level?

Is helicopter sniping ability permanently upgraded to master level?

The system is really generous!

"Team Su? Team Su!"

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

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

"It's okay, I just had a little errand, okay, let's get started!"

"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 started to prepare.

Luo Xing was originally prepared to explain in detail, but after seeing this scene, he opened his mouth and didn't say anything more. He just turned his head and glanced at another team member. The team member understood and immediately operated the small

Drone, fly the drone into the sky.

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

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

Bang--

As soon as he finished speaking, the sound of a sniper rifle rang out.

In a flash of fire, Li Dong, who was responsible for the observation, said in a trembling voice: "Hit... hit!"

Hit?

Luo Xing looked at Su Qi in disbelief.

Su Qi stood up, unloaded the magazine, pulled the bolt, turned off the safety, and then returned the gun to Luo Xing: "Luo Xing, this gun is really good, it is 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 that?"

"It's nothing, think more and practice more!"

"Captain Su, I have fired thousands of bullets, but why am I not as good as you? Captain Su, your helicopter sniper is really too powerful. Can you teach me how to do it?"

"Of course you can. We will have plenty of time to discuss and communicate with each other in the future!"

"Captain Su, please teach me some experience now!" Luo Xing heard this and immediately said impatiently.

Su Qi was stunned for a moment, and then he 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 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 operation, even if the aircraft is in a hovering state, people on board can still feel the teeth-chattering vibrations.

In order to obtain unprecedented mobility, snipers need to spend more energy on overcoming aircraft vibration interference. This multi-tasking shooting state is undoubtedly a new challenge for snipers who are accustomed to relying on fixed positions to shoot.

.”

Luo Xing nodded and sighed: "Yes, the biggest challenge of helicopter sniping is this! I still haven't been able to completely solve it, I can only barely overcome it!"

Su Qi also nodded.

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

He continued: "Another problem that helicopter sniper tactics need to face is the strong downwash airflow generated by the main rotor. From a ballistics point of view, the bullet has the highest muzzle velocity and the strongest kinetic energy when it leaves the barrel. In addition, the sniper attack

Most guns use large-caliber heavy bullets, so the stability will not be greatly affected.

In addition, the impact range of helicopter downwash airflow is limited, and the ballistic impact time is relatively short.

But for a sniper who is only a few centimeters away, if he wants to shoot a target hundreds of meters away from an unstable mounting platform, he cannot ignore the influence of downwash airflow.

If it is a medium-sized general-purpose helicopter, the impact of the downwash airflow is relatively limited. If it is replaced by a heavy-duty transport helicopter, the intensity and range of the downwash airflow will increase significantly. Just maintaining a stable shooting posture on the helicopter will require a lot of energy.

and time. The problem becomes more complicated if the necessary ballistic corrections to the relative position of the target are taken into account.

Although there was shooting training for moving targets in previous sniper courses, the premise was that the shooter was stationary, so the main consideration was the amount of correction required for the target to move. But when sniping from a helicopter, even if the pilot is first-rate

, it is also impossible to completely offset the influence of turbulence or wind speed. The sniper often needs to face all-round displacement or shaking up, down, left, and right. In this case, the sniper's correction must change its own movement direction, speed, height and target.

Only after the relative movement direction, speed, and height of the target are all taken into consideration can an effective shooting solution be obtained, which is undoubtedly much more complicated."

"In addition, although the sniper team can coordinate the course, speed and altitude with the pilot, it is impossible for the pilot to comply 100% because he still has to consider the surrounding terrain, features and weather conditions.

If the target location is in a combat zone, the helicopter will need to make tactical maneuvers from time to time to avoid ground artillery fire.

To make matters worse, because the stability of the helicopter is unpredictable, most of the sniper's error estimates can only rely on experience. After estimating the correction amount, you must also seize the moment when the helicopter is most stable to fire, just like in the basic shooting tutorial

Just like the requirement to breathe steadily before pulling the trigger, the shooter must find the common rhythm between himself and the helicopter.

On the other hand, because helicopters generally have the advantage of commanding heights, the potential energy advantage generated by gravity can offset part of the ballistic interference caused by the downwash airflow of the main rotor, and this also requires snipers to appropriately reduce their attack speed.

Corrections for ballistic descent."

Smiling, Su Qi continued: "Although there are many difficulties that need to be overcome in helicopter sniping, this change can greatly increase the mission flexibility and combat range of the sniper team. For this reason, we special forces must still try our best to work hard.

Overcome various inherent disadvantages of using helicopters as sniper platforms.

I think that since the stability of a helicopter is closely related to the sniper hit rate, it is very important to first choose a suitable helicopter as a combat platform. Based on my experience, I think our current helicopter is very suitable as a sniper platform.

.This helicopter not only has enough internal space, but also has relatively good stability. In addition, the size of the cabin sliding door is also large enough, and the cabin side door is installed in an independent position, which will not affect the aiming and shooting of the sniper team."

“In the early days of our previous voyages, since there was no suitable gun platform on the helicopter, we were mostly used to shooting with our guns bare-handed while sitting or kneeling.

Later, some people tried to use backpacks and sandbags to build temporary gun support, but the problem was that during the flight, the backpacks and sandbags often slipped down, and when the cabin door was open, the backpacks and sandbags also needed to be reinforced, making them very difficult to use.

inconvenient.

Later, we got inspiration from the US military and used elastic gun straps and paracord to make temporary gun suspensions.

The advantage of this system is that the gun strap has a certain degree of elasticity, which can offset part of the vibrations of the helicopter during flight, thereby indirectly increasing the stability of the shooter when holding the gun. The suspension method does not occupy the cabin floor space, and there is no need to worry about violent accidents.

When vibrating, the support bracket will fly everywhere.

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

However, in actual combat, we also found that the suspension sometimes blocks the field of view, especially when a sniper uses a scope, and part of the field of view becomes a blind spot.

Therefore, we can switch to a simpler method, that is, hang an elastic strap horizontally at the hatch, and directly put the gun across the strap as a support. This saves the time and effort of making additional suspension racks.

Each helicopter can be used as a sniper platform as long as it is hung with an elastic strap. Secondly, there will be nothing blocking the shooter's sight, which reduces the impact of shooting caused by blind spots in the field of vision."

Hearing Su Qi say this, Luo Xing's eyes couldn't help but become bright. He nodded heavily, deeply convinced of Su Qi's experience.

Su Qi glanced at Luo Xing and said with a smile: "However, the helicopter sniper tactic is not a panacea. Although it has support, it fires on an unstable platform after all. Therefore, its maximum effective range is generally about

600 meters, even if a 12.7mm caliber sniper rifle is used, the furthest range cannot exceed 1,000 meters.

And in order to reduce risks, when performing helicopter sniper missions, most pilots will first hover at a certain distance, wait until the sniper team calibrates the target and determines the entry angle, then fly into the shooting range, and require the sniper team to fire in the shortest possible time to reduce the risk of

The amount of time an aircraft is exposed to ground anti-aircraft fire.

Therefore, for helicopter sniper tactics, compared to superb shooting skills, it is more important whether the crew can fully cooperate with the sniper team, because only with tacit cooperation between both parties can the best balance be achieved in the changing shooting parameters. If

Without the spirit of teamwork, this tactic may be reduced to mere tricks.

So I suggest you get on the plane more and practice, not only to practice your skills, but also to cooperate with the crew, what do you think?"

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