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Desert training and Taliban snipers ?
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31-07-2010 12:54pm#1Watching Combat School on History channell last night about the Canadian army preparing for Afghanistan, I seen that they left the cold Canadian winter to train in the American desert for a few weeks to prepare for A'stan. Must say it was quite impressive with A'stan vets monitoring and when needed putting officers and privates right when they made a mistake. So I'm wondering
A) Do European armies have desert training in some neutral enviorment before been sent to A'stan ?
One of the vets told the trainees how they were making themselves easy targets standing around etc and that the Taliban had snipers that could take them out from 300 meters. So what I'm wondering is,
do the Taliban snipers have proper snipers rifles or in general do they just use a standard AK47, even without a telescopic sight ? 0
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PatsytheNazi wrote: »Watching Combat School on History channell last night about the Canadian army preparing for Afghanistan, I seen that they left the cold Canadian winter to train in the American desert for a few weeks to prepare for A'stan. Must say it was quite impressive with A'stan vets monitoring and when needed putting officers and privates right when they made a mistake. So I'm wondering
A) Do European armies have desert training in some neutral enviorment before been sent to A'stan ?
One of the vets told the trainees how they were making themselves easy targets standing around etc and that the Taliban had snipers that could take them out from 300 meters. So what I'm wondering is, do the Taliban snipers have proper snipers rifles or in general do they just use a standard AK47, even without a telescopic sight ?
Read somewhere that the americans had sent in special counter sniping teams to deal witht the snipers and that more and more hides were being found with shells off nato rounds0 -
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PatsytheNazi wrote: »One of the vets told the trainees how they were making themselves easy targets standing around etc and that the Taliban had snipers that could take them out from 300 meters. So what I'm wondering is, do the Taliban snipers have proper snipers rifles or in general do they just use a standard AK47, even without a telescopic sight ?
300 metres would be impressive for someone like me, who was ( a long time ago) at best average. I've never fired a rifle with scope. I would expect that a scope would improve almost everyone provided they understood their marksmanship training ( elevation,range calculation,wind etc) Wouldn't have thought 300 yds would be a major distance for snipers and afghan males have a very long tradition, even in peacetime, of marksmanship.
By coincidence saw this on the boards hunting forum, a guys first try at 300 yds. His post is followed by some very informative comments - might interest some of you.
http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=20559842320 -
PatsytheNazi wrote: »Watching Combat School on History channell last night about the Canadian army preparing for Afghanistan, I seen that they left the cold Canadian winter to train in the American desert for a few weeks to prepare for A'stan. Must say it was quite impressive with A'stan vets monitoring and when needed putting officers and privates right when they made a mistake. So I'm wondering
A) Do European armies have desert training in some neutral enviorment before been sent to A'stan ?
One of the vets told the trainees how they were making themselves easy targets standing around etc and that the Taliban had snipers that could take them out from 300 meters. So what I'm wondering is, do the Taliban snipers have proper snipers rifles or in general do they just use a standard AK47, even without a telescopic sight ?
Yes,in Kuwait or Kenya. The Taliban snipers mainly use SVD dragonov sniper rifles, counter sniper teams are deplyed against them. There is speculation Iran or pakistani intel. is training snipers and supplying these new modern weapons being used.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=2df_1195961420
Footage of training in Kuwait.0 -
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I don't mean to boast, but in my time as a recruit in the Bundeswehr we bog standard conscript soldiers fired at 300 m targets with an even more bog standard G3 without any special sights or special ammunition ...and most of us hit them as well
(and consistently at that)
300 m is well within hitable range for a decent rifle and a semi-competent shooter0 -
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Does the German army receive any desert training in a neutral county before heading off to Af'stan ?I don't mean to boast, but in my time as a recruit in the Bundeswehr we bog standard conscript soldiers fired at 300 m targets with an even more bog standard G3 without any special sights or special ammunition ...and most of us hit them as well (and consistently at that)
300 m is well within hitable range for a decent rifle and a semi-competent shooter0 -
I don't mean to boast, but in my time as a recruit in the Bundeswehr we bog standard conscript soldiers fired at 300 m targets with an even more bog standard G3 without any special sights or special ammunition ...and most of us hit them as well (and consistently at that)
300 m is well within hitable range for a decent rifle and a semi-competent shooter
Well the americans have been concerned for years by how much ammo there troops go through to actually hit a target. You can get away with that type of fighting if your supply lines are secure.
The French use Djibouti for dessert training for there regular army and the legion. Some US marines have done dessert training there with french instructors. The british have a close relationship with Oman and have conducted exercises there in the recent past but I dont know if its a regular army training site for them.0 -
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