ONE bullet. Six dead insurgents in Afghanistan

[Toad]

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worl...ne-bullet.html

A British sniper in Afghanistan killed six insurgents with a single bullet after hitting the trigger switch of a suicide bomber whose device then exploded, The Telegraph has learnt.

The 20-year-old marksman, a Lance Corporal in the Coldstream Guards, hit his target from 930 yards (850 metres) away, killing the suicide bomber and five others around him caught in the blast.

The incident in Kakaran in southern Afghanistan happened in December but has only now been disclosed as Britain moves towards the withdrawal of all combat soldiers by the end of the year.

Lt Col Richard Slack, commanding officer of 9/12 Royal Lancers, said the unnamed sharpshooter prevented a major attack by the Taliban, as a second suicide vest packed with 20kg (44lbs) of explosives was found nearby.

The same sniper, with his first shot on the tour of duty, killed a Taliban machine-gunner from 1,465 yards (1,340m).

Toad ~ WooT! Good training.

[American Patriot]

Nice work. lol

[Ryan Ruck]

That is fucking bad ass!

[Malsua]

Nothing like a secondary explosion to make your day. Boom...KAAABOOOM! "Right-o good chap, you appear to have scored a bonus"

[American Patriot]

When I see things in the movies, I say, "That's BS, that can't happen in real LIFE!"

Now we know....

[Malsua]

When I see things in the movies, I say, "That's BS, that can't happen in real LIFE!"

Now we know....

Except in movies, you have stupid shit like curving bullets around people because you swing your gun around. Dumbest movie concept brought to you by the movie "Wanted".

[American Patriot]

Never saw that... but bullets do curve. Of course, gravity has a lot to do with that, lol

[Malsua]

You never saw them curve bullets around stuff and precisely hit the shit behind it? In fact Angelina Jolie was so certain her student could do it, she made him curve a bullet around her. In real life, she'd be deader than 4 O'clock.

Mythbusters did a show on it. The bottom line is they couldn't even get the bullets to move even slightly by hand or with a machine that really flung it around.

[American Patriot]

Never saw that before. Physics rules, you know....

"An object in motion tends to stay in motion."

"Gravity makes things fall down"

F = mass*acceleration

air resistance slows objects moving quickly through the air....

bullets usually are fired from rifled barrels, making them spin, which means they fly "straight" (except for the amount of force behind the acceleration, the gravity pulling them down and air resistance....)

All that shit.

LOL