far zero. Say a word about the poor sniper
Under this term, understandable to certain and knowledgeable circles of the audience, we are planning a new series of articles on precision shooting. There are so many nuances and problems in accurate (and high-precision) shooting today that it can take quite a long time to sort them out. This is what we plan to do with the help of several experts who will not appear on the scene, but will guide our efforts in accordance with the principle of "do no harm."
Rifles, cartridges, protective suits, optics, thermal imagers - all this is the essence of accurate shooting in our time. Both in military and civilian terms, because it is in civilian life that the larvae of future snipers make their first shots at the target.
We will talk about all this within the framework of this cycle, but ... But let's start from a completely different point.
Sniper... Something unique, legendary, professional. A loner that deals damage to the enemy with point injections. Acting in isolation from his own, instilling fear in enemies - we will talk about such specialists some other time.
Yes, super pros, capable of hitting a person from two kilometers from a large-caliber rifle, they are, of course, worthy of conversation and reverence. This is undeniable.
But at the beginning of our conversations, we will talk about those guys that you can meet in any motorized rifle company. Shooters with a Dragunov rifle.
Call them snipers... Probably not. A sniper is something like that... In a special suit, with a high-precision rifle, with a partner, working on targets that he chooses... And here is just a shooter with an SVD who can fire a shot and hit a target at a distance of 400-600 meters. Like a machine gunner, only consuming less ammo.
If you need a definition - a universal shooter for working at short and medium distances. The Dragunov rifle, with all its pluses and minuses, allows you to work effectively at distances from 400 to 600 meters.
The difference between an army universal shooter and a classic sniper is that the shooter acts in the interests of a platoon or company. The targets for the universal shooter are machine gunners, grenade launchers, enemy commanders. Considering that in a normal battle there is not much time to select objects, the shooter works on any targets.
For the enemy, such a versatile shooter is a priority target. This is quite understandable and justified.
Naturally, such a shooter will not move further from his platoon ... further than 100-200 meters. No free searches, no "solitary voyages". Work in the interests of a platoon or company. No Hollywood-style shots, shooting just to incapacitate a person. Accordingly, it is not so important where the bullet hits, the main thing is that it hits.
And here we come to the first enemy of the modern army universal shooter.
Oddly enough, yes, the main enemy of the army shooter is not the SVD rifle, which only the lazy did not speak about. The main enemy of the sniper is his commander. And, involuntarily.
Where we train snipers, many can say. Blagoveshchensk, Khabarovsk, Solnechnogorsk, Kovrov and many other settlements of the country. There are establishments where skills are really polished, and guys (and sometimes girls) who can shoot at the level of 2-1 categories can turn out to be cool shooters.
Army company snipers, however, are not trained there. These guys are recruited from the personnel at hand. By what signs - depends on the commander who produces the set.
Often, when there were no people in the recruitment who had at least some shooting training before being drafted, the shooter is assigned "from the bulldozer." Just because someone has to take the position of platoon sniper and carry and clean the "oar".
The duties of a sniper are spelled out in all documents and even on the website of the Ministry of Defense. It’s quite funny there, for some reason, related civilian specialties are indicated: an engraver, a huntsman, a hunting hunter, a photographer, a jeweler-engraver. Funny? Yes, it's funny.
As for the training of a combined arms sniper, then, according to the same site, "Sniper training is carried out directly at the place of service in the troops."
How we can do this, there is enough information on the Internet. We only note that the training of a sniper is one thing, and the training of a shooter with an SVD is quite another.
Unfortunately, but a fact: today the RF Armed Forces completely lack at least some kind of unified system for training snipers and sniper units. Yes, snipers are trained at these courses, and they are trained to a high standard, but this is really a piece of work. In parts, there is nothing, starting from the regulatory framework and ending with the course of firing. About such things as disguise, we just keep quiet.
This is not an isolated problem, we are preparing snipers for army special forces on a single occasion. And for the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, training a shooter with an SVD is a personal hemorrhoid of company and platoon commanders. Prepare as you wish.
Considering that the platoon commander is a lieutenant who came from the school, attention, the question is: what can he give from his side to the private who was called up after college, who saw the SVD exclusively on the screen of his computer?
And the lieutenant, quite possibly, the SVD himself observed just like that, then the answer is simple, like a cartridge - nothing.
Of course, if the unit is combat, there are contract soldiers who have gained some experience over several years of service, then something else is possible. But given the year of service, even a shooter with an SVD in our case will not be able to properly prepare. But there is some hope that the signatories of the contract will be able to learn something in the process of service and portray, if necessary, something meaningful.
However, there are cases when, on the orders of the commander, the shooter abandoned his SVD, took the AK and went to storm the house or comb the landings. A very common practice since 2014 on the other side, and in our NWO it also happens all around and nearby.
The question arises "Which one?" or why.
Again, a quote from the website of the RF Ministry of Defense, taken from the BUSV:
“The sniper is part of the motorized rifle squad. It can act both together with the department and in a separate special group. Two snipers can perform the assigned task jointly (one fires, the other corrects the shooting and, if necessary, covers a comrade with fire).
The combat mission of a sniper, as a rule, includes the destruction of the most important targets in the enemy’s position (officers, observers, machine gunners, liaison officers, crew members tanks and calculations of guns, operators of anti-tank missile systems, etc.).
Fire from a sniper rifle can be fired at embrasures of pillboxes, bunkers, observation posts, air targets.
And here we come to the most interesting. Who leads the sniper during combat?
In theory, it should be the platoon leader. Despite the fact that the sniper is part of the squad, the squad leader is simply not able to provide the sniper with a normal combat mission and (especially) target designation.
Squad Leader - Sgt. Assigned from the same environment as the SVD shooter. We don’t have any sergeant schools, because the comrade squad leader simply has no idea in the first (and also in the second) time what to do with this ... sniper.
In addition, the squad leader often simply does not have information about who is in front of him and collects all the information directly on the battlefield, so to speak, visually.
And it’s absolutely not worth puffing about the fact that everything is wrong in our army. Just take care to listen to the radio conversations recorded and dumped on the Internet and evaluate the extent of what is happening in battle. Everything is exactly so, and no one will spread out before the sergeant, telling him where and what the enemy has. He will see for himself if he wants to live. Or he won't see. Anything can happen.
The platoon leader is still worse. It has three branches. And the idea of \uXNUMXb\uXNUMXbwhere the sniper's attention should be directed is the most remote.
If the platoon is defending, then all right. You can send a shooter with SVD to help repel an enemy attack. You look, he will make five shots and there will be a sense from this.
If the platoon attacks... What sniper? The platoon leader is hot without him. So the order to go along with the squad, changing the rifle to a machine gun, will look very clear. Or find your own goals.
And now we have come to understand that in modern combat in the Russian army, this SVD shooter has minimal value. And God forbid that the guy was handy and with brains. Then he can be useful. If not, alas. All this shooting at loopholes and air targets is nonsense.
It turns out that no one in the platoon needs a shooter with an SVD. And, note, this is not a sniper trained in the courses, who will be able to equip a competent position and from there click enemy officers from a distance of a kilometer. This is an ordinary fighter with a rifle that will allow him to confidently hit someone from a distance of 400 meters. For especially advanced ones - from 600.
And then such a thought creeps in: do commanders need it? Even in defense, the company / platoon commander has a lot of problems in his area, and then there’s a sniper ... Who also needs to be indicated where the enemy has artillery, where headquarters, machine gun crews ... This is necessary so that the company commander himself obtains this information somewhere and shares with a sniper. And where will the company commander take her? Yes, the question ... That is, if the regimental intelligence works out, but at the headquarters they will give everything on a silver platter ...
Even a trained sniper is not easy. How is it in the statute? Officers and observers? With the current unification of the form, it is not so easy to do. In our country, however, any battalion commander can be calculated by the signalman who runs after him with a chest over his shoulders. But the enemy is worse with this.
The only thing a sniper can treat himself to is to really bring down all living things that he can reach. But it seems to us that this hunt will not last very long.
Yes, it is worth considering the development of technical intelligence tools. How many shots can a sniper fire before he hits the UAV lenses? And what does it mean for him? Rocket with shock drone Or a cheaper meal? For example, a mortar salvo.
By the way, any commander, whether company, platoon, is unlikely to be happy with such attention from the enemy.
And it turns out that a real sniper who comes with a partner from a sniper unit, say, a brigade, will quiet down somewhere aside and will nightmare the enemy - this is good from the point of view of a company commander. He doesn't need to rack his brains over anything other than fire cover, in case these are spotted.
But ours, who need to take their places, indicate the goals, give the order, responsibility again ... It is not known yet, they will be able to show something there, but there is a fair amount of pain from them.
Moreover, the company commander is well aware of the level of training of his own. And if he is the one we are talking about, then it is better to let him really take an ordinary AK-74 and go on the attack with everyone. It might not do much good, but it won't hurt either.
What is the outcome?
In order for an ordinary with SVD to turn into a station wagon shooter, you need to teach. Moreover, to teach not only the private, but also the sergeant who commands the department in which the shooter is. It is necessary to teach the platoon leader, first of all, the ability to use the shooter. And a company commander, but it’s already easier with him, he was a platoon commander, to teach how and to whom to attach shooters from the SVD.
Shooter with SVD - it's the same weapon, like a machine gunner with a decent (not RPK-74) machine gun: no matter where you put it, you can’t use it carelessly. There should be a really modern regulatory framework for the use, explaining almost everything (not foreseeing everything) regarding the use of shooters with SVD.
In the meantime, very often a shooter with an SVD in a platoon is like a suitcase without a handle: it seems that there is one in the state, but in general, well, it is.
Meanwhile, a shooter with SVD should not turn into an anarchist scumbag, "whoever I see, I shoot at him." He must work as part of a subunit and only according to the target designations of the platoon group commander, then this will be the maximum benefit from both the soldier and his rifle.
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