Message no. 1

From:	WILLIAM FRIERSON <will1am@*****.ASU.EDU>
Subject:	Re: Sniper Ranges
Date:	Mon, 29 May 1995 01:37:44 -0700

From: H.F.Wolverson@***.HULL.AC.UK ("Bracket ")

>Friday night's game, one of my players was using a sniper rifle. Extreme
>range is 400 metres, or about 1/4 mile. He was complaining that this was
>incredibly low. I don't really know enough about guns to comment, so I
>was wondering if any of you can enlighten me - is this range too short?

The range sounds a little short to me. (We had targets out at 350 m
with M16a1's and iron sights). There was a big discussion about this a
few months ago. I know that snipers can engage out to _at least_ 1000 m,
depending on the rifle used.

Note that the Barret .50 cal was used at extreme ranges (1200+ m) in Desert
Storm, but the targets engaged were vehicles (BMP's). Hitting a man that
far out is pretty exceptional.

This doesn't include all the neat gadgets that Shadow Runners have available
to them.

>[We discussed wind conditions, and the guy claimed that a modern scope
>will compensate for wind - how?]

Well, modern tanks have wind sensors that feed info to the fire control
computer, which them makes adjustments to correct for windspeed. I imagine
that the computer part of the smartlink can take wind speed and direction
into account, and place the cross hairs appropiately.

Later



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