The confirmed record for this caliber belongs to the British sniper Craig Harrison, who in 2009 during the war in Afghanistan successfully hit two Taliban at a distance of 2,475 meters and damaged ...

2016 when his gun went off unexpectedly during a sniper training course in Tain. The youngest of three brothers and originally from Hampshire, L/Cpl Spencer joined the British Army in 2011 ...

and those boots — British boots — are capable of shots like this: A Hero SAS sniper gunned down a knife-wielding Islamic State (ISIS) maniac just as he was trying to brutally behead a father ...

He tells Business Insider how elite marksmen in the unit are trained for combat and describes the longest shot he took as a sniper in Afghanistan. He discusses his deployments to Iraq and ...

From Reuters: COMBAT OUTPOST PIRTLE-KING, Afghanistan - U.S. Staff-Sergeant Joshua Danison cranes his neck to survey jagged ridges vertical and black above him on the eastern edge of Afghanistan ...