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Simo Häyhä ( Finnish pronunciation: [ˈsimo ˈhæy̯hæ] ⓘ; 17 December 1905 – 1 April 2002), often referred to by his nickname, The White Death ( Finnish: Valkoinen kuolema; Russian: Белая смерть, romanized : Belaya smert’ ), was a Finnish military sniper during World War II in the 1939–1940 Winter War between Finland and ...
Carlos Norman Hathcock II (May 20, 1942 – February 22, 1999) was a United States Marine Corps (USMC) sniper with a service record of 93 confirmed kills. Hathcock's record and the extraordinary details of the missions he undertook made him a legend in the U.S. Marine Corps. He was honored by having a rifle named after him: a variant of the M21 dubbed the Springfield Armory M25 White Feather ...
A sniper is a military / paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. [1] Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with telescopic sights. Modern snipers use high-precision rifles and high-magnification optics.
Apache (Viet Cong soldier) Apache was a female sniper and interrogator for the Viet Cong during the War in Vietnam. [1] [2] While no real name is given by Carlos Hathcock, he states she was known by the US military as "Apache", because of her methods of torturing US Marines and ARVN troops for information and then letting them bleed to death ...
Major precision rifle variants used by snipers from around the world are as follows. The list includes hunting or precision rifles equipped with a telescopic optic, and precision rifles used by both military and law enforcement trained snipers and marksmen.
Sniper: The White Raven is a 2022 full-length feature film from UM-Group. [1] Work on the film began in 2019. The war drama won the 11th competition of the Ukrainian State Film Agency, and the film was awarded ₴ 23,946,572 (80% of the total cost of the film's production). [2] The film is directed by Maryan Bushan and written by Maryan Bushan and Mykola Voronin.
A sniper is a trained sharpshooter who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain close visual contact with a target and engage the targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the detection capabilities of enemy personnel.
Tabs of the United States Army. In the United States Army, tabs are cloth and/or metal arches that are worn on U.S. Army uniforms, displaying a word or words signifying a special skill. On the Army Combat Uniform and Army Service Uniform, the tabs are worn above a unit's shoulder sleeve insignia (SSI) and are used to identify a unit's or a ...