Russian snipers in the Northern Military District zone switched to working in threes
Russian snipers in the Northern Military District zone switched to working in threes, rather than in twos, as before. As a sniper instructor of one of the units explained, the reason for this was a large number of Ukrainian drones.
Ukrainian drones have caused Russian snipers to switch to working in teams of threes; such tactics are increasingly used in the special operation zone. According to the instructor, the task of the third soldier in the group is to observe the sky and provide protection to the working pair of snipers, who should not be distracted from performing the main task. The third fighter also provides engineering support for the group. This decision was made based on the experience of combat operations.
Based on the experience of the SVO, we now actually use threes, partly because the two are target-oriented and, accordingly, are vulnerable from a security point of view in a number of ways. The third team member provides security from small arms fire, monitors the sky, and protects the group from drones
- leads TASS words of a sniper instructor.
Due to the large number of drones, most of the work of snipers is carried out at night. As the snipers themselves say, priority targets are machine gunners, grenade launchers, and enemy commanders.
There are also changes in the work of Ukrainian sniper pairs, also adopted taking into account the experience of combat operations. According to our intelligence, in the Ukrainian Armed Forces snipers work in groups of up to six people, which, in addition to the snipers themselves, includes the driver of the equipment attached to the group, as well as sappers.
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