Synchronized sniper shots

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    I heard Capt. Richard Phillips (hostage in Maersk Alabama piracy attack off Somalia) speak at a conference several years ago on not giving up, a good speech on finding inner strength to hang in there.

    Just saw the movie "Captain Phillips" about that.

    In a situation where there are 3 bad guys that need to be dealt with at the same time, but the targets are going in and out of sight, how do you synchronize all 3 (or however many there are) shooters to instantaneously get all the bad guys at 1 time? Hand signals, spotters communicating, whiz-bang electronics, something else?
     
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    I heard Capt. Richard Phillips (hostage in Maersk Alabama piracy attack off Somalia) speak at a conference several years ago on not giving up, a good speech on finding inner strength to hang in there.

    Just saw the movie "Captain Phillips" about that.

    In a situation where there are 3 bad guys that need to be dealt with at the same time, but the targets are going in and out of sight, how do you synchronize all 3 (or however many there are) shooters to instantaneously get all the bad guys at 1 time? Hand signals, spotters communicating, whiz-bang electronics, something else?
    That's why they're 'Operators' and you ain't.
     
    Don't you just shoot 3 different calibers with specific muzzle velocities so that each bullet when fired at different times will all arrive at the desired distances at exactly the same time? Doesnt your ballistic app tell you how much time you have between each shot, adjusting for the variation in wind speeds at the various timing difference?

    3x kills! Done!
     
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    You shoot on report which will make the three shots about a second apart, that way the other bad guys know their fate after watching the first guy's head turn into pink mist as they look at each other.
     
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    you all agree to fire at the exact time, then you "circumcise" your watches to the exact second. Don't choose to fire at the top of the minute - bad guys know this and duck their heads at the top of the minute. Shoot at about 16 seconds after - that's when they stick their heads back up.

    Unless the bad guys have bad watches. Then you do fire at the top of the minute.
     
    Select a target by pressing "A" while looking through your scope, binoculars, or drone. Wait for Weaver, Midas, and Holt to confirm targets. Hold "A" to execute sync-shot.

    But you can only do all three once you've upgraded your skill tree.
     
    Stagger shooter distance so as the 1st bullet passes 2nd shooter he fires and then as 1st and second bullet pass 3rd shooter he fires.

    This timing is done in mils to target. There is also a reaction speed to consider so there's alot of necessary practice.

    The biggest problem they had in reality was being south of the equator. There is some super secret stuff that was utilized to allow all that to happen with rifles zeroed in the northern hemisphere... think cray super computer processing 😏
     
    you all agree to fire at the exact time, then you "circumcise" your watches to the exact second. Don't choose to fire at the top of the minute - bad guys know this and duck their heads at the top of the minute. Shoot at about 16 seconds after - that's when they stick their heads back up.

    Unless the bad guys have bad watches. Then you do fire at the top of the minute.
    Funny shit.

    I think, the bad guys all have Gitmo watches.

    A great cheap watch, by the way.
     
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    you all agree to fire at the exact time, then you "circumcise" your watches to the exact second. Don't choose to fire at the top of the minute - bad guys know this and duck their heads at the top of the minute. Shoot at about 16 seconds after - that's when they stick their heads back up.

    Unless the bad guys have bad watches. Then you do fire at the top of the minute.

    Also remember that you need cool code names.
     
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    The biggest problem they had in reality was being south of the equator. There is some super secret stuff that was utilized to allow all that to happen with rifles zeroed in the northern hemisphere... think cray super computer processing 😏
    Anti-cant Coriolis. You need terabytes of computer to compute at a fast enough rate to match the bullets. I overheard at Cabela's.
     
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    The controller attaches wires to each operators nut sack and when each indicates go a button is pressed that initiates 2000 volts (but at low amps) which causes an instantaneous and involuntary squeeze of the trigger.

    Its brilliant, but requires a lot of practice.
    Ok I laughed. 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    Doc
     
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    The controller attaches wires to each operators nut sack and when each indicates go a button is pressed that initiates 2000 volts (but at low amps) which causes an instantaneous and involuntary squeeze of the trigger.

    Its brilliant, but requires a lot of practice.
    Daaaaang! Talk about developing a flinch!
     
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    In a situation where there are 3 bad guys that need to be dealt with at the same time, but the targets are going in and out of sight, how do you synchronize all 3 (or however many there are) shooters to instantaneously get all the bad guys at 1 time? Hand signals, spotters communicating, whiz-bang electronics, something else?
    This is how you do it.

     
    Perhaps this is one way it could be done...

    1976 Loyada Hostage Rescue Mission

    http://foreignlegion.info/1976-loyada-hostage-rescue-mission/

    At 03:45 p.m. (15h45), an order was given to rescue the children. GIGN snipers fired coordinated shots to kill the kidnappers. In response, the Somali guns opened fire. This was the signal for the paratroopers. The 2e REP legionnaires launched a frontal attack and ran forward under enemy fire. They were designated to ensure the rescue of the children and to eliminate the Somali gunfire.

    From the recent fictionalized movie: 'Fifteen Minutes of War'. The coordinated shot starts at 6:27 minutes into the video...



    After the shot:


    The full movie can be watched for free on dailymotion:



    Thanks for posting that link, been wanting to see that.

    Lots of French gun goodness in there.
     
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    What is the deal here , am i missing something? Was it Somali coast guard/pirates doing the sniping :ROFLMAO: or why the amazement

    Hostage rescue 101 , for past 40+years ,sniper coordination systems have been used

    Snipers have long used an electronic gizmo and with a press of a button indicating they have a shot to control, control has oversight of all snipers when all lights are green command to shoot fells as many targets as there are snipers.

    The basic system used at least for past 40+years have simple red and green led diodes for each sniper on the control box(system you could make DIY ) , nowdays we have much fancier variants with host of features and control has sight picture from each sniper.


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