| From: | Gurth <gurth@******.NL> |
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| Subject: | Re: Firearms vs. Military Strategy |
| Date: | Sun, 31 May 1998 12:16:00 +0100 |
> Any army guys out there, what's standard anti-sniper tactics?
> It'd be nice to know, since it will soon crop up in the current
> campaign.
Not that I've been in the army, but a few things I can think of is
to spray the sniper's suspected position with fire, and/or lob some
high explosives into the area -- mortars should work fine here, or
automatic grenade launchers. Trying to pick off the sniper is
much too difficult.
> Anyone seen 'Full Metal Jacket', I think it was?
I saw that a few years ago, but I can't remember all that much of
it.
> The scene where a VC sniper shot a guy in the foot, so he lies in the
> open, screaming in pain?
> Anyone going to help him is shot dead.
> If noone goes out to help him, he's shot a few more times, just to
> make him scream louder and demoralize the other guys.
This is actually something used by VC forces a lot. Wound
someone, then pick off the medic coming to their aid (or anyone
else, of course, but I believe it was often the idea of getting the
medic).
This also happens, in a slightly different way, in "84 Charlie
Mopic," BTW.
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