The U. S. Air Force selected the Lockheed Martin Sniper Pod as their Advanced Targeting Pod ( ATP ) in 2004.

The Lockheed Martin Sniper Advanced Targeting Pod ( ATP ), designated AN / AAQ-33 in U. S. Military Service, provides positive target identification, autonomous tracking, coordinate generation, and precise weapons guidance from extended standoff ranges.

The Sniper ATP is used on the F-15E Strike Eagle, F-16 Fighting Falcon, A-10 Thunderbolt II aircraft, B-1 ( Rod Pod ), UK Harrier GR9 ,.

The Sniper ATP is in service with Norway, Oman, Poland, Singapore, Canada, Belgium, Turkey, Saudi Arabia The Sniper ATP contains a laser designator and tracker for guiding laser-guided bombs.

A team of Lockheed Martin UK, BAE Systems and SELEX Galileo ( formerly Selex S & AS ) has successfully demonstrated and flown a Sniper ATP on board a Tornado GR4 combat aircraft.

The U. S. Air Force initial seven-year contract for Sniper ATP has potential value in excess of $ 843 million.

The Sniper ATP has delivered over 125 pods and the U. S. Air Force plans to procure at least 522 Sniper ATPs.

In August 2001, the U. S. Air Force announced Lockheed Martin's Sniper as the winner of the ATP competition.

The Sniper ATP is a single, lightweight pod with much lower aerodynamic drag than the legacy systems it replaces.

The Sniper ATP incorporates a multi-spectral sensor capability with a high-resolution, mid-wave third-generation FLIR and a CCD-TV.

Sniper ATP is the only targeting pod being used in Operation Iraqi Freedom and Operation Enduring Freedom on F-16s and F-15Es.

* Lockheed Martin's Sniper ATP page

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* The Scout Sniper Basic Course provides instruction in advanced marksmanship with the M40A1 sniper rifle and the M82A1A Special Application Scoped Rifle, small bore marksmanship training with the M40, and qualification with the M9 pistol.

The operation would require a helicopter insert of forces to cordon the area and search for Shah and his men, and they sought to conduct this operation at night, after positive identification of Shah by a Marine Corps Scout / Sniper team, which would walk into the area under cover of darkness some nights before.

** Sniper Charles Whitman kills 13 people and wounds 31 from atop the University of Texas at Austin Main Building tower, after earlier killing his wife and mother.

Experienced HRT operators assigned to observer / sniper teams are sent to the Marine Corps Scout Sniper Basic Course, and, after successfully completing the course, they receive further instruction by HRT snipers.

The following week, Sniper made his debut and soon after Tank was removed from the team.

* In French, the word " sniper " entered the common vocabulary after " Sniper Alley " became famous, and it quite supplanted the usual words tireur d ' élite, tireur embusqué or franc-tireur.

In the manga, he survives the fall, but ends up being killed by Sniper after protecting Ben.

The Sniper was operated in a manner similar to pump-action shotguns in that it had to be manually recocked after each shot to load the next round.

Many modern sniper rifles can trace their ancestry back for well over a century, and the Russian 7. 62 x 54 mm cartridge, as used in the front-line Dragunov Sniper Rifle ( SVD ), dates from 1891.

La Rumeur, Rohff, 113, Dosseh, LIM, Lunatic, Dicidens, Lino, Kamelancien, L ' Skadrille, Le 3ème Œil, Black Marché, Carré Rouge, Expression Direkt, are some hardcore rappers known for their rejection of mainstream French rap, while Casey, Rocé, Médine, Youssoupha, Fonky Family, Psy4 De La Rime, Keny Arkana, Mokless, Haroun, Booba, Oxmo Puccino, Sefyu, TLF, Sniper, Arsenik, Dj Azer, Nessbeal, Puissance Nord, Mino, Soprano, L ' Algérino, La Swija, Carpe Diem, represent a mix of hardcore or purist rap and mainstream designs.

Meanwhile their enthusiasm for side projects has continued, as Patrick Codenys started appearing with a new group called Red Sniper, Bresanutti started recording with a new group called Troissoeur, and Codenys and Richard 23 formed a quasi-DJ project called Coder23 which toured in late 2004 and early 2005 as the opening act for VNV Nation.

Following the Texas Sniper shootings, the Tower observation deck was initially closed for a total of two years, before reopening in 1968.

Chapin's follow-up album, Sniper and Other Love Songs ( 1972, # 160 ), was less successful despite containing the Chapin anthem " Circle " ( a big European hit for The New Seekers ).

* The character Sniper Wolf from the 1998 video game Metal Gear Solid is a Kurdish survivor of the attack, which forms part of her motivation for revenge against the world.

The Springfield remained in service for snipers ( using the M1903A4 ), grenadiers ( using a spigot type rifle 22 mm grenade launcher ) and Marine Scout Sniper units.

Sniper rifles aimed at military service are often designed for very high durability, range, reliability, sturdiness, serviceability and repairability under adverse environmental and combat conditions, at the sacrifice of a small degree of accuracy.

Sniper rifles built or modified for use in law enforcement are generally required to have the greatest possible accuracy, more than military rifles, but do not need to have as long a range.

In 1982 a U. S. Army draft requirement for a Sniper Weapon System was: " The System will: ( 6 ) Have an accuracy of no more than 0. 75 MOA ( 0. 2 mrad ) for a 5-shot group at 1, 500 meters when fired

Actual Sniper Weapon System ( M24 ) adopted in 1988 has stated maximum effective range of 800 meters and a maximum allowed average mean radius ( AMR ) of 1. 9 inches at 300 yards from a machine rest, what corresponds to a 0. 6 MOA ( 0. 5 mrad ) extreme spread for a 5-shot group when using 7. 62 x 51 mm M118 Special Ball cartridges.

A 2008 United States military market survey for a Precision Sniper Rifle ( PSR ) calls for 1 MOA ( 0. 3 mrad ) extreme vertical spread for all shots in a 5-round group fired at targets at 300, 600, 900, 1, 200 and 1, 500 meters.

In 2008 the US military adopted the M110 Semi-Automatic Sniper System which has corresponding maximum allowed extreme spread of 1. 8 MOA ( 0. 5 mrad ) for a 5-shot group on 300 feet, using M118LR ammunition or equivalent.

Harmony Church area houses the 2 / 29 Infantry Regiment Sniper School, the 1 / 29th Infantry Regiment ( training support for Bradley Fighting Vehicles and Strykers ), the United States Army Reconnaissance and Surveillance Leaders Course ( RSLC ) and the first phase of Ranger School.

UT improved upon the mod-friendly nature of its predecessor with support for mutators such as Sniper Arena, Instagib, JumpMatch, Low Gravity and more.

Examples are Tom Selleck's character in Magnum, P. I., Thomas Magnum, who is a United States Naval Academy graduate, former SEAL officer and Vietnam veteran ; Jan-Michael Vincent's character Stringfellow Hawke a top helicopter combat pilot in Airwolf, also a Vietnam veteran and is still looking for his brother who is missing in action ; Commander Harmon “ Harm ” Rabb, Jr., the main character of JAG, who is also a Naval Academy graduate and former Naval Aviator looking for his father who is missing in action from the Vietnam War ; and NCIS's main character, Leroy Jethro Gibbs, who is a retired Marine Corps Gunnery Sergeant and Scout Sniper.

Players are defined by which class they select ( the classes being Scout, Soldier, Pyro, Demoman, Heavy Weapons Guy ( Heavy for short ), Engineer, Medic, Sniper and Spy ) with each class having strengths and weaknesses.

Sergeant Harold Marshall ( Canadian sniper ) | Harold Marshall, of the Calgary Highlanders Scout and Sniper Platoon, posed for Army photographer Ken Bell near Fort Brasschaet in Belgium, September 1944.

On June 17, 2008, the U. S. government issued a market survey to support a requirement for a Precision Sniper Rifle ( PRS ) to possibly replace the currently fielded Bolt Action SOF Sniper Systems MK 13 (. 300 Winchester Magnum ) and the M40 and M24 ( 7. 62 × 51mm NATO ) chambered to safely fire factory produced " non-wildcat ". 338 caliber ammunition.

The SRIG modelled as a consolidated military intelligence collection agency, most of the gathered intelligence are collected from many sources ( i. e. STA Sniper platoons, Marine reconnaissance assets, signal intelligence, etc.