Entwicklungen und News, ...rund um die Infanterie Einstellungen

[goschi]

Munitionsthematik ausgelagert

[Panzermann]

Jetzt wird alles anders:

New name for Iraq war: Operation New Dawn
Staff report
Posted : Friday Feb 19, 2010 7:37:59 EST

Say goodbye to Operation Iraqi Freedom.

Effective Sept. 1, the war in Iraq will acquire a new official moniker: “Operation New Dawn.”

Defense Secretary Robert Gates announced the move Wednesday in a memo to Gen. David Petraeus, chief of U.S. Central Command, that was first reported by ABC News.

In the brief, one-paragraph memo, a copy of which also went to Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs, Gates said the name change is designed to coincide with “the change of mission for U.S. forces in Iraq.”

“Aligning the name change with the change of mission sends a strong signal that Operation Iraqi Freedom has ended and our forces are operating under a new mission,” Gates wrote. “It also presents opportunities to synchronize strategic communication initiatives, reinforce our commitment to honor the Security Agreement, and recognize our evolving relationship with the Government of Iraq.”

http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2010/..._gates_021810w/

[Panzermann]

Report: Officers lose 243 Homeland Security guns
February 18, 2010 10:04 a.m. EST

Washington (CNN) -- Nearly 180 Department of Homeland Security weapons were lost -- some falling into the hands of criminals -- after officers left them in restrooms, vehicles and other public places, according to an inspector general report.

The officers, with Customs and Border Patrol and Immigration and Customs Enforcement, "did not always sufficiently safeguard their firearms and, as a result, lost a significant number of firearms" between fiscal year 2006 and fiscal year 2008, the report said.

In all, 243 firearms were lost in both agencies during that period, according to the January report from Inspector General Richard Skinner. Of those, 36 were lost because of circumstances beyond officers' control -- for instance, ICE lost a firearm during an assault on an officer. Another 28 were lost even though officers had stored them in lockboxes or safes.

But 74 percent, or 179 guns, were lost "because officers did not properly secure them," the report said.

Following a review of the draft report in December, Homeland Security took steps to implement its recommendations and overhaul its property management policy, according to a response in the report. A department spokeswoman did not immediately return a call from CNN Thursday seeking comment.

The report concluded the department did not have specific procedures and policies in place regarding firearms. "Instead, DHS relied on its components to augment its general property management policies and procedures with specific guidance for safeguarding and controlling firearms," it said. "Although some component policies and procedures for safeguarding firearms were sufficient, personnel did not always follow them."

The inspector general cited several examples of "inappropriate practices." A customs officer, for instance, left a firearm in an idling vehicle in the parking lot of a convenience store. The vehicle was stolen while the officer was inside. "A local law enforcement officer later recovered the firearm from a suspected gang member and drug smuggler," the report said.

In addition, an ICE officer left an M-4 rifle and a shotgun unsecured in a closet at his home. Both weapons were stolen in a burglary and later recovered from a felon, according to the report. Another officer left his firearm in the restroom of a fast-food restaurant, and it was gone when he returned.

"Other CBP and ICE officers left firearms in places such as a fast food restaurant parking lot, a bowling alley and a clothing store," the report said.

"Although our review focused on CBP and ICE, other components described similar incidents. For example, a TSA officer left a firearm in a lunch box on the front seat of an unlocked vehicle; the officer realized the firearm was stolen when he returned to the vehicle two days later," said the report. "Officers may have prevented many of these losses had they exercised reasonable care when storing their weapons."

Of the 179 lost because of laxity, 120 were reported stolen and 59 as lost, the report said. That resulted from the agencies' lack of guidance on a standard method for classifying and reporting lost firearms, as well as "a common perception among officers that reporting a stolen firearm was more acceptable than reporting a lost firearm.

"Although CBP and ICE reported 120 firearms as stolen, our analysis showed that these firearms were lost (stolen) because officers left the firearms unsecured," according to the report. "All 179 losses may have been prevented had the officers properly secured their firearms."

The department had about 188,500 weapons in its inventory as of last summer, the report said. The majority are assigned to Customs and Border Protection and ICE officers, but others are carried by agencies including the U.S. Coast Guard, the U.S. Secret Service and the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center.

Der Beitrag wurde von Panzermann bearbeitet: 20. Feb 2010, 21:03

[stillermitleser]

Die ,,neue" Uniform der US-Army offiziell vorgestellt.
Link

[Nite]

Tacgear Fleckcam:


Warum soll etwas was mit DPM geht nicht auch mit Flecktarn möglich sein

[schleicher]

weil MC auf 7 farben basiert in FT eigentlich nur 5 Farben hat. ausserdem hat MC fading und verwischen drin waas nicht wirklich mit FT funktioniert...

nach meinem wissen hat das Crye mit seinem deutschen Vertreter (SMC) mal probiert und das hat nicht funktioniert. hab das mal von denen (SMC) bei uns im Standort gehört. TACGEAR nimmt nun einfach einliche Fabren auf der gleichen druckmatrize. das kann also so garnicht funktionieren. aber hauptsache mal ähnliche farben genommen, das befriedigt sicher den ein oder anderen sammler...

[Nite]

Aufgrund des fehlenden Bezugs zum Thema Infanterie habe ich hummingbirds Post ins PuG verschoben.
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Noch einmal als Reminder für alle: in den Technikforen geht es um technische und taktische Themenkomplexe. Für Diskussionen über politische und gesellschaftliche Dimensionen haben wir das PuG.

[Panzermann]

http://www.militarytimes.com/news/2010/03/...4_camo_031410w/

Army will allow soldiers to recolor M4s

By Matthew Cox - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday Mar 14, 2010 9:14:04 EDT

The Army is finally going to give soldiers the green light to paint their black weapons so they blend in with the terrain on the battlefield.

Soldiers have been using commercially available, spray-on camouflage paint since the beginning of the war — despite an unenforced Army policy prohibiting the practice.

...

Wenn es alle machen kann sich wohl auch die Bürokratie nicht mehr sperren.

[SLAP]

Die 500.000 M4 der Army sollen kampfwertgesteigert und gleichzeitig nach einer neuen Waffe gesucht werden.

Army Times

Army makes moves toward new carbine

Staff report
Posted : Sunday Mar 21, 2010 8:36:27 EDT

The Army is now following not one but two paths to give soldiers a better weapon than the current M4 carbine.

The Army launched an effort to find a new weapon in November 2008, a year after the M4 finished last in an Army reliability test involving three other carbines.

Officials hoped to start a competition for a new carbine last fall.

Army weapons officials said March 2 that the service still intends to go after a new carbine.

The requirement, or blueprint, for the new weapon, however is still awaiting approval from the Defense Department, said Col. Doug Tamilio, the head of Project Manager for Soldier Weapons.

“People have asked me how long it will be in the joint staff,” Tamilio said. “I don’t know when this will go through.”

Tamilio added that it could be late summer before the Joint Requirement Oversight Council makes a decision.

In the meantime, the Army is making progress on an effort to make significant improvements to the 500,000 M4s in the inventory.

Army weapons officials have asked the small arms industry “can you take the current M4 and make it more reliable, more durable, easier to maintain and more accurate,” Tamilio said. M4 modifications could include improvements to carbine parts, such as the bolt and bolt carrier assembly, upper receiver and barrel assembly, gas operating system, trigger group assembly and the rail system.

Improved M4s, however, will still be chambered for 5.56mm round. The next step in the M4 improvement program calls for the Army to release a draft request for proposal in the coming weeks. Gun makers will then have 30 days to come up with initial plans. The Army will then hold an industry day to allow gun makers to ask questions. The Army will then release an official request for proposal in the April-May time frame. Participating companies will have 90 to 120 days to submit “no-kidding pieces of equipment,” for the Army to evaluate, Tamilio said.

As for the effort to replace the M4, Army weapons officials said the service has the roughly $10 million it needs to open a competition but can’t set a date until the Joint Regiments Oversight Council approves the requirement for a new carbine.

The requirement has to go through one more short review by Army staff. Then it goes to JROC, where it could sit for “four to five months; that’s the maximum time usually,” Tamilio said “If it is non-controversial, it will go through very quickly.”

[Gortos]

Sie suchen also eine Art HK416. Das aber aus den gleichen Gründen wie das XM8 damals keinen Erfolg haben wird - kein amerikanisches Produkt usw.

[Praetorian]

Sie suchen also eine Art HK416.

Nicht im Rahmen des "effort to replace the M4". Zumindest noch nicht.
Bis zu einem Bieterverfahren dauert es ja noch ne Weile, weil der grundsätzliche Bedarf noch durch JROC abgesegnet werden muss.

[Nite]

Neues für die Fanboys:

angeblicher Magpul release-schedule

[Col. Breytenbach]

Da fehlt der Costa Barttrimmer und die Travis Haarpflegeserie.

[Nite]

Da fehlt der Costa Barttrimmer und die Travis Haarpflegeserie.

Ein gewisser Qualitätsabstand zur Mookie War-Lingerie muss schon noch sein

[Panzermann]

Was unterscheidet ein G PMAG von einem ohne G?

[Nite]

G PMAGs sind für G36, PMAGs für AR15

[Desert Hawk]

Airborne School Graduates First Class Using New T-11 Parachute

The T-11 parachute, also referred to as the Advanced Tactical Parachute System has already begun to replace the venerable T-10 with operational units. As Fort Benning’s Basic Airborne Course trains new parachutists, they too have have begun the transition to the new system. Students will continue to train with both since the transition to the T-11 will take about three years, but the class graduating last week was the first to have jumped the new parachute.

http://vimeo.com/8179947

This PEO-Soldier video of a recent jump by the 18th Corps Staff gives you a good idea of the characteristics of the parachute.

One of the first things you will notice about the new canopy is its shape. Rather than the traditional conical shape of the T-10 the T-11 boasts 28% more surface area and assumes a somewhat square shape due to a modified version of a cross/cruciform. This results in a slower rate of descent and a softer landing (19 fps vice 24 fps). Additionally, the T-11 replaces not only the round canopy but the harness as well which is designed to displace opening shock forces of the reserve parachute equally along the long axis of the jumper’s body. While the T-10 relies on the Modified Improved Reserve Parachute System (MIRPS) which includes a standard T-10 reserve parachute canopy assembly integrated with a commercial deployment assistance device to throw the canopy out away from the jumper, the new T-11R is based on the British Low Level Parachute (LLP) aero-conical design that includes apex scoop pockets at the top of the reserve canopy and skirt assist lines at the system’s hem to promote fast opening of the reserve during low-speed malfunctions. Unlike MIRPS, the T-11R reserve uses an omni-directional, center-pull deployment system.

Quelle: soldiersystems.net

[Minfun]

Australier, Segway, Live Fire Training

[Nite]

“Improved Carbine”, oder auch neue Handwaffe für die US-Streitkräfte part. ? (ich hab aufgehört zu Zählen )

The Future of US Army Small Arms

I had the fortune to recently speak with COL Tamilio, PM Soldier Weapons about improvements to the current M4 carbine as well as a proposed new weapon dubbed the “Improved Carbine”. It seems that there has been some confusion over this, but there are two separate projects going on, almost simultaneously.

The Stoner family of weapons (M16/M4) have undergone numerous upgrades throughout their almost 50 year of service. The Carbine Improvement Program is focused on some of the most radical ever material improvements to the M4/M16. They consist of a piston gas system to replace the current direct-impingement gas system, improved trigger, monolithic rail, and a round counter to assist with maintenance of the weapon. According to COL Tamilio, they have already approved two Engineering Changes for the M4 which include a heavier barrel and ambidextrous controls. Additionally, they recently put out a call to industry asking what they can do to make these other changes to the current rifle. If successful, they will be spirally inserted into the Army’s weapons. Hopefully, such improvements won’t come in Black but rather a shade of Brown or Tan that blends in a little better with the Soldier’s equipment and surrounding terrain.

But making evolutionary enhancements to the current weapon is just the beginning. The Army has also written a requirement for a follow on to the venerable M16. The requirements documentation for the Improved Carbine has completed the Army’s staffing process and is currently with the Joint Requirements Oversight Council (JROC). Every major procurement program must negotiate this is hurdle where all of the services as well as SOCOM get to take a look at it and validate it. The idea is to make sure that the services aren’t trying to purchase the same or very similar items under different programs. Think of it as sort of a Department to Prevent Redundancy Department. The requirement will be there for several months and I would not expect to see the actual solicitation on the street until fall.

The Improved Carbine is intended as a no holds barred look at individual small arms in the carbine class. Despite rumors that the Improved Carbine and Squad Individual Marksman variant would share the same requirements document, possibly also with the Personal Defense Weapon, this is not the case. They needed to be broken down into separate requirements although it is possible that the Individual Carbine and Squad Individual Marksman weapons may end up relying on a common weapon. The PDW is a bit more problematic due to the Army’s desired characteristics for the weapon. The Army wants to purchase about 500,000 of the new carbines and has stipulated that they will own the Technical Data Package so that they can award production contracts for the type selected to more than one manufacturer.

Interestingly, the requirement does not specify a caliber, an operating system, nor a form factor. They are dedicated to seeing the best industry has to offer. COL Tamilio was very emphatic about this and said, “The Army is seeking an improvement to the M4 carbine and the Army is committed to testing and procuring it.”

Now here is my take on the Improved Carbine requirement.

This has been tried before, and more than once. First, in the 60s with the Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) and its offspring SALVO, Niblick, and the future Rifle Program and then again in the late 1980s with the Advanced Combat Rifle program. All pitted the industry’s best in a race for that leap ahead technology and none provided it.

Overall, it sounds good but to me has an air of a science project. “Give us the best you’ve got.” But how do you measure that? With an open call for ammunition as well as base weapon how do you objectively evaluate them against one another? There are too may variables to attribute performance. Below you see a photo featuring several of the current operational and developmental military calibers and this is by no means all inclusive. Imagine a test involving an even larger pantheon of rounds. Then imagine it further diversified by different platforms and operating systems. How much of a weapon’s success do you attribute to the ammo and how much to the weapon itself?
As we saw in the ACR competition, ammunition doesn’t just mean caliber, but rather of types of rounds. For example, the 5.56mm Colt entry featured a duplex projectile by Olin. Another round introduced by H&K as part of their G11 rifle was a caseless design in 4.7mm.

All this talk of ammunition leads me to also comment that I do not believe the Army will adopt a new caliber. My belief is based mainly on economics and one fact given to me by COL Tamilio seems to support my assertion. He related that it cost $300 million to prepare for the transition to the new “Green” 5.56 mm ammunition adopted by the Army. He said it would cost this much to transition to a new caliber OR even to alter production to make 7.62 NATO the primary ammunition.

Ultimately, this is a cautionary tale. As we have heard time and time again, “Those who fail to study history, are doomed to repeat it.” I don’t doubt COL Tamilio’s dedication to the idea, nor the Army’s for that matter, but I think they will once again validate the status quo. It is precisely what happened at the conclusion of the ACR project. The Army could identify no appreciable improvement in lethality, hit probability or reliability over the M-16 family of weapons and so they retained the M16 for further use. That was over 20 years ago and in that time, small arms technology has not progressed radically. However, time will tell.

Quelle: soldiersystems

[Panzermann]

“Improved Carbine”, oder auch neue Handwaffe für die US-Streitkräfte part. ? (ich hab aufgehört zu Zählen )

Ach was, das sind doch alles nur Übergangslösungen bis SPIW eingeführt wird...


Aber der letzte Satz be den Feuerwaffen habe sich nichts geändert. Najaaaa, vor 20 jahren hat fast niemand ein ZF verwendet, rails gab es auch noch keine...

Und die Werkstoffwissenschaften haben auch shcon das eine oder andere hervorgebracht. Die Materialien aus denen M4 und M16 gefertigt werden sind ja irgendwann in den 1950ern entwickelt worden.

Der Beitrag wurde von Panzermann bearbeitet: 12. Apr 2010, 18:40

[jooogii]

Mini-Spike: abgespekte Version der Spike (1) - wahrscheinlich als Reaktion auf Libanon Krieg 2006; Maj. Gen. Yair Naveh hatte damals gefordert mehr Laser-, GPS- gelenkte Systeme einzuführen, anstatt elektro-optische, die deutlich teurer sind (2)

Wirkmittel 90: für Häuserkampf entwickelte Waffe, die auf System Panzerfaust 3 basiert und eine Reichweite von bis 1200m hat (3)

Quellen:
1: http://www.defense-update.com/photos/mini_spike.html, 12.09.2009
2: Eshel, David (2008): Lesson Learned. Israel emphasizes maneuver warfare in battle plans. In: Defense Technology International, H. 11, S. 19. Online verfügbar unter http://www.zinio.com/express3?issue=313705...int&prev=si, zuletzt geprüft am 25.12.2008.
3: http://www.defense-update.com/products/w/w...l90_180309.html, 26.03.2009

Der Beitrag wurde von jooogii bearbeitet: 20. Apr 2010, 09:28

[Panzermann]

Mit dem "Wirkmittel 90" (blöder Name) bekommt ja jeder Stoppelhopser seine eigene kleine Feldkanone mit 1,2 km Reichweite.

Ich frage mich ob man die auch gebündelt an Fahrzeuge schrauben könnte damit diese besser als Sturmgeschütz wirken können?




mehr was für die Kuriositäten: CornerShot entwickelt einen Starter für die PZF 3

[Panzermann]

Erst einmal hier hinein:

We Have Met the Enemy and He Is PowerPoint NYT

The news media sessions often last 25 minutes, with 5 minutes left at the end for questions from anyone still awake. Those types of PowerPoint presentations, Dr. Hammes said, are known as “hypnotizing chickens.”

Ah "embedding", so geht das also!


Essay: Dumb-dumb bullets
As a decision-making aid, PowerPoint is a poor tool Armed Forces Journal


Bei der Nasa ist Powerpoint auch nicht (mehr) gern gesehen.

[Dave76]

From The Sunday Times May 2, 2010

Hotshot sniper in one-and-a-half mile double kill

Michael Smith

A BRITISH Army sniper has set a new sharpshooting distance record by killing two Taliban machinegunners in Afghanistan from more than a mile away.

Craig Harrison, a member of the Household Cavalry, killed the insurgents with consecutive shots — even though they were 3,000ft beyond the most effective range of his rifle.

“The first round hit a machinegunner in the stomach and killed him outright,” said Harrison, a Corporal of Horse. “He went straight down and didn’t move.

“The second insurgent grabbed the weapon and turned as my second shot hit him in the side. He went down, too. They were both dead.”

The shooting — which took place while Harrison’s colleagues came under attack — was at such extreme range that the 8.59mm bullets took almost three seconds to reach their target after leaving the barrel of the rifle at almost three times the speed of sound.

The distance to Harrison’s two targets was measured by a GPS system at 8,120ft, or 1.54 miles. The previous record for a sniper kill is 7,972ft, set by a Canadian soldier who shot dead an Al-Qaeda gunman in March 2002.

In a remarkable tour of duty, Harrison cheated death a few weeks later when a Taliban bullet pierced his helmet but was deflected away from his skull. He later broke both arms when his army vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb.

Harrison was sent back to the UK for treatment, but insisted on returning to the front line after making a full recovery.

“I was lucky that my physical fitness levels were very high before my arms were fractured and after six weeks in plaster I was still in pretty good shape,” he said. “It hasn’t affected my ability as a sniper.”

Harrison, from Gloucestershire, was reunited in Britain with his wife Tanya and daughter Dani, 16, last month. Recalling his shooting prowess in Helmand province, he said: “It was just unlucky for the Taliban that conditions were so good and we could see them so clearly.”

Harrison and his colleagues were in open-topped Jackal 4x4 vehicles providing cover for an Afghan national army patrol south of Musa Qala in November last year. When the Afghan soldiers and Harrison’s troop commander came under enemy fire, the sniper, whose vehicle was further back on a ridge, trained his sights on a Taliban compound in the distance. His L115A3 long-range rifle, the army’s most powerful sniper weapon, is designed to be effective at up to 4,921ft and supposedly capable of only “harassing fire” beyond that range.

“We saw two insurgents running through its courtyard, one in a black dishdasha, one in green,” he said. “They came forward carrying a PKM machinegun, set it up and opened fire on the commander’s wagon.

“Conditions were perfect, no wind, mild weather, clear visibility. I rested the bipod of my weapon on a compound wall and aimed for the gunner firing the machinegun.

“The driver of my Jackal, Trooper Cliff O’Farrell, spotted for me, providing all the information needed for the shot, which was at the extreme range of the weapon.”

Harrison killed one machinegunner with his first attempt and felled the other with his next shot. He then let off a final round to knock the enemy weapon out of action.

Harrison discovered that he had set a new record only on his return to UK barracks nine days ago. The previous record was held by Corporal Rob Furlong, of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, who was using a 12.7mm McMillan TAC-50 rifle.

Tom Irwin, a director of Accuracy International, the British manufacturer of the L115A3 rifle, said: “It is still fairly accurate beyond 4,921ft, but at that distance luck plays as much of a part as anything.”

News of Harrison’s success comes amid concern over a rival insurgent sharpshooter who in a five-month spree has killed up to seven British soldiers, including a sniper, in and around the Taliban stronghold of Sangin.

In a later incident during the tour, Harrison’s patrol vehicle was hit 36 times during a Taliban ambush. “One round hit my helmet behind the right ear and came out of the top,” he said. “Two more rounds went through the strap across my chest. We were all very, very lucky not to get hurt.”

Quelle

[Almighurt]

Reinrassiger MCLMM

[Panzermann]

Jo, aber die Kanadier (ein Schütze ist nicht viel ohne seinen Beobachter) vor ein paar Jahren hat weiter geschossen. Zugegeben mit einer .50 McMillan.

Trennung.

National Security Risk: Fat Kids

One can't go a day without seeing some advertisement about weight loss or some reality show that pounds obese people back in shape. Walk the school yards today and kids from elementary school to high school are barely making it around the track because they are packing way too much weight.

Perhaps its the addictive crud in all the processed foods we eat or a lack of parental discipline to monitor what our children eat - either way, it has now made the radar of our top ranking government officials - fat kids are compromising national security.

Mission: Readiness � Military Leaders for Kids, a bipartisan, nonprofit, national security organization led by more than 60 retired generals and admirals, recently published a report called "Ready, Willing and Unable to Serve" that profiled three major reasons why 75 percent of youth today are unable to serve. Obesity being one of those reasons.

According to the report, The Pentagon reported that 75 percent of Americans 17 to 24-years-old are ineligible to serve in our military. As one of the authors stated, "The reasons behind this are serious and - if left unaddressed - could adversely affect the strength of our military. In the interests of national security, we must understand and deal with these problems."

So what are the reasons? Three of the most significant reasons are inadequate education, a criminal background, or excess weight. Here's what the report had to say:

• Inadequate Education: Approximately one out of four young Americans lacks a high school diploma. Students who have received a general equivalency degree (GED) can sometimes receive a waiver if they score well enough on the military's entrance exam. However, most of those who dropped out and received a GED instead of a regular degree do not possess sufficient math or reading skills to qualify.
  
• Criminality: One in ten American youth cannot join because they have at least one prior conviction for a felony or serious misdemeanor (and for five percent of American youth, trouble with the law is the only thing keeping them out).
  
• Weight problems: 27 percent of young Americans are too overweight to join the military. the percentage of Americans who are not just overweight but actually obese has risen rapidly. (A person is obese if they have a Body Mass Index, BMI, of 30 or above;)

Time to step up America - or perhaps I should say - parents. Turn off the TV, stop feeding your children fast food, and try moderating when and how much they eat. I know - life is busy; I get it - but that's no excuse to put parenting on hold.

In the words of Henry "Hugh" Shelton General, US Army (Ret.) Former Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff, "To keep our country strong and safe, we need to ensure all young Americans get the right start in life � we need more investments in high-quality early education."

And that starts in the home.

Posted by Michael Schindler at April 19, 2010 8:00 a.m.

quelle: http://blog.seattlepi.com/militarywire/archives/201330.asp

Der Beitrag wurde von Panzermann bearbeitet: 4. May 2010, 03:19

[HANS]

Jo, aber die Kanadier (ein Schütze ist nicht viel ohne seinen Beobachter) vor ein paar Jahren hat weiter geschossen. Zugegeben mit einer .50 McMillan.

Nee, ham se nich. Die Kanadier und ihre einige Dutzend Meter *kürzere* Schussdistanz sind im Text explizit erwähnt (8120 vs 7972 Fuss, also 2475 vs 2430m, ungefähr). . . Sonst wär's ja auch kein neuer Rekord . . .

mfg

HANS

[Hummingbird]

Reinrassiger MCLMM

Soviel zum Thema stille Profis. Hauptsache mal die Tätowierungen in die Zeitung gebracht.

[Hummingbird]

From The Sunday Times
April 11, 2010

A TALIBAN sniper has shot dead up to seven British soldiers during a five-month killing spree in a town regarded as the most dangerous place in Afghanistan.

The 600 soldiers of the 3rd Battalion, the Rifles, stationed at Sangin, fear that the gunman is stalking his prey for days on end and may have been trained in neighbouring Iran or by Al-Qaeda operatives in Pakistan.

The Taliban hitman demonstrated his skill last month when he picked off a British sniper who was on the lookout for his insurgent rival. Three of his suspected victims have been army sharpshooters, including one killed by a single bullet between the eyes.

“Their sniper is giving us real problems and we’ve not yet worked out how to take him down,” said a senior British Army officer who recently visited the town in Helmand province.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/worl...icle7094300.ece

[ironduke57]

Enemy at the Gates - Afghanistan Edition?

SCNR,
ironduke57