I don't believe in bragging about certain things out in the open. So if you would like to PM me, we can discuss who is computer chair warrior. Perhaps compare DD214's?
Lol. This thread is priceless. So many computer chair warriors offering their battle experience and wisdom. My favorite is the guy who doesn't know how fast "supersonic" is, but also is a world class sniper.
"In aeronautics, transonic refers to the condition of flight in which a range of velocities of airflow exist surrounding and flowing past an air vehicle or an airfoil that are concurrently below, at, and above the speed of sound in the range of Mach0.8 to 1.0, i.e. 965–1,236 km/h (600–768 mph) at sea level. This condition depends not only on the travel speed of the craft, but also on the temperature of the airflow in the vehicle's local environment. It is formally defined as the range of speeds between the critical Mach number, when some parts of the airflow over an air vehicle or airfoil are supersonic, and a higher speed, typically near Mach 1.2, when most of the airflow is supersonic. Between these speeds some of the airflow is supersonic, but a significant fraction is not.
You said 343 was the speed of sound. I said a range of 300-400."
300/343 = .87 Mach
400/343 = 1.16 Mach
Both are squarely in the transonic zone. When I refer to "supersonic", I'm referring to the scientific term as applied to aeronautics. You are just trivially using it as a term people use "faster than sound". You're like Trump, a know nothing that likes to bloviate and tell people stories. Nice!
Source:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transonic
In the future, I'd like to see you avoid these topics. It's somewhat embarrassing to have to keep correcting you
Reading the headlines for this story I was immediately suspicious because at the purported distance the bullet drop would be huge. Looking at various ballistic charts for common .50 BMG loads the typical bullet drop at 2500 yards is around 450 feet. 2 miles is 3520 yards so at that distance the bullet drop would be significantly more. The shot was taken on top of a highrise so I'm guessing the 2.2 miles is the slant distance.
Anyone know exactly how high he was being on top of this high rise?
Ryan Cleckner, a former U.S. Army Ranger sniper who served two tours of duty in Afghanistan and wrote the authoritative “Long Range Shooting Handbook,” called the feat an “incredible” accomplishment, one that owes as much if not more to the spotter’s expertise than the shooter's skill.
“The spotter would have had to successfully calculate five factors: distance, wind, atmospheric conditions and the speed of the earth’s rotation at their latitude,” Cleckner told Fox News.
“Because wind speed and direction would vary over the two miles the bullet traveled, the true challenge here was being able to calculate the actual wind speed and direction all the way to the target.”
Atmospheric conditions also would have posed a huge challenge for the spotter.
“To get the atmospheric conditions just right, the spotter would have had to understand the temperature, humidity and barometric pressure of the air the round had to travel through.
Cleckner said that while the ammunition that Canadian special forces use in the TAC-50 is “off-the-charts powerful,” with some 13,000 foot-pounds of force when it comes out of the muzzle, the speed of a bullet, a 750-grain Hornady round, is not as important as the aerodynamic efficiency of the bullet.
“The key to having a sniper round travel that far and hit a small target has less to do with speed and more to do with the efficiency with which the projectile moves through the air,” he said.
That’s because while sniper bullets exit the muzzle at several times the speed of sound they eventually slow down to less than the speed of sound, and at that point they become less stable. An efficiently designed bullet reduces that instability, he explained.
Dennis Santiago, California-based firearms expert and instructor, said the partnership between the spotter and the shooter is critical.
"Equipment is just a starting point. The shooter on a military team will surely be skilled enough to hold hard on the 'aimpoint' and fire the shot accurately," he told Fox News. "The spotter member of the sniper team is responsible for telling the shooter the precise moment the atmospherics align with the calculations they've made. When it comes together, it's 'mission accomplished'."
Reading the headlines for this story I was immediately suspicious because at the purported distance the bullet drop would be huge. Looking at various ballistic charts for common .50 BMG loads the typical bullet drop at 2500 yards is around 450 feet. 2 miles is 3520 yards so at that distance the bullet drop would be significantly more. The shot was taken on top of a highrise so I'm guessing the 2.2 miles is the slant distance.
Anyone know exactly how high he was being on top of this high rise?
This is a bullet not an airplane.
Lol. Jesus Christ man. I don't mean to make a fool out of you, ok? But.... these statements!
Sigh...
Do you think the air acts differently upon a plane, or a "flying vehicle"... than a bullet?
Think about it. Then maybe chill out on the science related stuff. I'm sure you're "elite" elsewhere.
FIVR is a Russian. His job is to stir the shit in any manner he can think of.My god some people have to try to discredit anything and everything. This isn't some couch warrior here claiming he did the impossible at the range. This is a JTF 2 sniper. These guys are considered elite by every measure. They were the weapon of choice in Afghanistan by US Commanders.
And you want to claim they made this whole thing up? Video evidence and all? Really?
I don't know whether this is legit or not, but FIVR has a point. The current record for a mile run is I think about 3:40. If someone purportedly ran it in 2:30 I think people would be skeptical. How do we see one at that much longer of a range than the previous record without ever seeing any in between? There must have been tremendous luck here, not least of which was the target not moving during the 10 second travel time.
Two minutes after the race, a doctor declared that her heart rate had already returned to normal, and added, “she appeared less tired than most men in the race.”
In 1969 Trump used his bone spur to drop kick a Vietnamese man out of his market in Manhattan, earning the Purple Heart for tremendous valour!
The problem is, you're looking at the "common .50 BMG".
Nothing compared to the way Hillary dodged sniper bullets on her way to greet the flower girl and when Obama community organized his way to the CMH.
FIVR is a Russian. His job is to stir the shit in any manner he can think of.
In this case I think the goal was to come off as an jerkwad American attacking a Canadian.I don't think he came off looking very good.
The problem is, you're looking at the "common .50 BMG".
Definitions matter. Facts matter. Making up crap matters. What you got was the last. I guess I'm pulling wings off the metaphorical fly, but you didn't know about the lethality of the round, conditions of visibility in Iraq, how velocities are discussed among the educated, You brought up Baghdad Bob in some bizarre context because the kill was recorded by the team? Who knows?
But what I really want FIVR to tell me is if the heat from a jet fuel fire can melt steel!
Are you calling me a pedophile?Most brutal baby carrot polishing I've seen all day.
Anyone know exactly how high he was being on top of this high rise?
In this case I think the goal was to come off as an jerkwad American attacking a Canadian.