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10 Most Lethal Snipers of WWII Image Used: Soviet Sniper Vasily Zaytsev, who was decorated as an HSU. Though a movie has never been made about deadly marksman Sergeant Major Nikolay Yakovlevich Ilyin, his 494 kills made him equally important in Red Army. Ilyin was a sniper in the 50th Guards Rifle Division and fought at Stalingrad.
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8 Longest Sniper Shots in History While seven out of eight of the longest sniper shots in history have taken place in the last decade, better technology and training are only two variables in the long-distance shooting equation. Teamwork, natural skill and even luck all factor into the longest kill shots in the military books.
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255 confirmed kills: Meet Navy SEAL Chris Kyle... the deadliest sniper in US history But after four deployments to Iraq, he learned to stop hesitating and start shooting straight. With 255 kills, 160 of them officially confirmed by the Pentagon, the retired Navy Seal sniper is the deadliest marksman in US military history.
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The Legend of Chris Kyle The Legend of Chris Kyle. The deadliest sniper in U.S. history performed near miracles on the battlefield. Then he had to come home. There’s a story about Chris Kyle: on a cold January morning in 2010, he pulled into a gas station somewhere along Highway 67, south of Dallas.
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World's longest sniper kill - 2.47km twice! Harrison's feat is clearly the stuff of legend. The previous record holder - Furlong - killed an al-Qaeda fighter from 2.43 km during Operation Anaconda in Afghanistan in 2002. Furlong's shot was also legendary – he made military history.
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- Chris Kyle Trial: Vets Fear Insanity Defense Will Grow PTSD Stigma. Chris Kyle at the Craft International offices in Dallas,Texas on March 20, 2012. Chris Kyle is a retired United States Navy SEAL who is the most lethal sniper in U.S. military history with over 150 confirmed kills and an additional 100 unconfirmed kills. Craft International provides security, defense and combat weapons training. Redux Pictures.
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Audie Murphy (I)  (1924â1971) Audie Murphy (I) (1924–1971) Audie Murphy became a national hero during World War II as the most decorated combat soldier of the war. Among his 33 awards was the Medal of Honor, the highest award for bravery that a soldier can receive. In addition, he was also decorated for bravery by the governments of France and Belgium, and was credited with killing over 240 German ...
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Meet the world's deadliest female sniper who terrorized Hitler's Nazi army What the uniform stands for, they have yet to learn,” she told Time Magazine in 1942. Pavlichenko was one of 2,000 female snipers who fought for the Red Army in World War II, and one of the 500 who survived.
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Here Are the 8 Longest Confirmed Kill Shots in Military History Chris Kyle, nicknamed “The Legend” by his fellow brothers and Shaitan Ar-Ramadi, “The Devil of Ramadi,” by insurgents in Iraq, is labeled as the most lethal sniper in military history. The Pentagon has credited him with 160 confirmed kills. His longest kill shot came on his last deployment in 2008 to Sadr City.
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The movie, nominated for Best Picture at the Oscars, deliberately left out the death of its hero. Chris Kyle, author of American Sniper and the most lethal sniper in American military history, was killed on Feb. 2, 2013. He was 38. By all accounts, Routh returned to civilian life a profoundly changed man. Within a year, his life was falling apart.
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Longest recorded sniper kills Reports regarding the longest recorded sniper kill that contain information regarding the shooting distance and the identity of the sniper have been presented to the general public since 1967.Snipers in modern warfare have had a long history since the development of long distance weaponry.or example, the Canadian Army 2002 sniper team that saw two soldiers (Arron Perry /2,310 m and Rob Furlong /2,430 m) set consecutive new records, also made a number of kills at 1,500 m that are not counted here.
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American Sniper: 10 burning questions But in his memoir, American Sniper: The Autobiography of the Most Lethal Sniper in US Military History, Kyle explains that there was a particular incident which earned him the moniker: when he shot down the beachballs insurgents were clinging to to help them swim across a river in Fallujah.
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Longest recorded sniper kills The science of long-range sniping came to fruition in the Vietnam War. Carlos Hathcock held the record from 1967 to 2002 at 2,286 m (2,500 yd). He recorded 93 official kills before an injury halted his service on the front lines.
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- Texas, USA. Military Figure, Author. He is best remembered for his autobiographical book American Sniper, a New York Times bestseller that described his military career as a US Navy SEAL sniper. His father was a Sunday school teacher and church deacon who taught him how to hunt and shoot at a young age.
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American Sniper (2015) In researching the American Sniper true story, we learned that by the Pentagon's count, U.S. Navy SEAL sniper Chris Kyle had at least 160 confirmed kills during four tours in Iraq between 2003 and 2009 (TIME.com).
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Sniper The longest confirmed sniper kill in combat was achieved by an undisclosed member of the Canadian JTF2 special forces in June 2017 at a distance of 3,540 m (3,871 yd). The previous record holder was Craig Harrison, a Corporal of Horse (CoH) in the Blues and Royals RHG/D of the British Army.
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Longest recorded sniper kills History[edit] The science of long-range sniping came to fruition in the Vietnam War. Carlos Hathcock held the record from 1967 to 2002 at 2,286 m (2,500 yd). He recorded 93 official kills before an injury halted his service on the front lines.
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Lyudmila Pavlichenko : biography There she became one of 2,000 female snipers in the Red Army, of whom about 500 survived the war. She made her first two kills as a sniper near Belyayevka, using a Tokarev SVT-40 semi-automatic rifle with 3.5X telescopic sight.
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The bullet that finally felled the super sniper: U.S. marksman who insurgents called 'The Devil' has been killed - by one of his own side Lethal: Former Navy SEAL Chris Kyle, who with up to 160 confirmed kills, became the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history. One man he shot from a distance of more than a mile. Another of his bullets took out not one but two men on a moped who had just planted a bomb down a manhole.
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- Picking off an insurgent in Afghanistan in March 2002 from a distance of 2,526 yards, Perry bested Carlos Hathcock's Vietnam-era record of 2,500 yards, but was quickly dethroned as the best long-range sniper by a member of his own team, Corporal Rob Furlong who made the second-longest shot in history, just weeks later.
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- Longest Sniper Kill Shot Ever. World longest kill shot by British Army sniper Corporal Craig Harrison holds the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd). Hype.
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Chris Kyle Dead: Author Of âAmerican Sniperâ Shot And Killed At Gun Range Kyle had become well-known for his exploits in Iraq, where he deployed four times, set the record for sniper kills at 150, received numerous commendations, and, according to the Stephenville Empire Tribune, was given the nickname The Devil of Ramadi by insurgents.
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You're not worthy: Council snubs move to honour British Army's most decorated regiment They have fought bravely in Iraq and Afghanistan and count Victoria Cross hero Johnson Beharry among their number. But the troops of the most decorated regiment in the British Army are the victim of an extraordinary snub by a council in Surrey, which says they are not 'appropriate' recipients of a public honour.
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255 confirmed kills: Meet Navy SEAL Chris Kyle... the deadliest sniper in US history 255 confirmed kills: Meet Navy SEAL Chris Kyle... the deadliest sniper in US history. Served four tours of duty in Iraq, where he gained the nickname 'The Devil of Ramadi' from insurgents. Longest shot was a 2,100-yard strike against a man armed with a rocket launcher.