Because of this, " Sniper 2 " didn't fire a single shot until late in the gunfight, when hostage-taker Khalid Jawad attempted to escape on foot and ran right at the exposed sniper.

Typically, the application of accurate, long-range fire is the domain of the marksman and the sniper in warfare, and of enthusiastic target shooters in peacetime.

According to friends, these included several acts of torture and the murder of a laborer by sniper fire.

Their special purpose was " for maneuvering inside buildings in order to detect tripwires and sniper fire ".

** Ernie Pyle, American journalist ( sniper fire ) ( b. 1900 )

A soldier killed by sniper fire in the Gaza strip.

* November 24: an Israeli officer killed by sniper fire in Gaza strip, and an army-employed civilian killed in the West Bank.

* December 1: Muhammad Saleh Muhammad al-Arja, 12, of Rafah, Gaza, killed by Israeli sniper fire to his head near the Rafah boder crossing.

( According to some accounts the Mass was interrupted by sniper fire from both the internal and external galleries.

Most of the Mexican media reported that the students provoked the army ’ s murderous response with sniper fire from the apartment buildings surrounding the plaza.

In military and law enforcement use, the bolt action has been mostly replaced by semi-automatic and selective fire weapons, though the bolt action remains the dominant design in dedicated sniper rifles.

The bolt-action is still common today among sniper rifles, as the design has potential for superior accuracy, reliability, lesser weight, and the ability to control loading over the faster rate of fire that alternatives allow.

The airplane carrying Lee circled the tower as Lee attempted to shoot the sniper ; however, the turbulence proved too great to enable Lee to focus sufficiently to fire upon Whitman.

Later, in anticipation of increased enemy air activity, General Marquat traveled over terrain harassed by sniper fire and endangered by land mines to inspect anti-aircraft installations.

The thoroughfare also saw sustained small arms and sniper fire from surrounding areas.

The attack very nearly succeeded in its object, but was reversed when enemy sniper fire tore into the small British force.

Soviet military doctrine used snipers for providing long-distance suppressive fire and for eliminating targets of opportunity, especially leaders, because during World War II, Soviet military leaders and combat theorists ( Vassili Zaitsev contributed greatly to Soviet sniper doctrine, although he was officially neither of these ) found that military organisations have difficulty replacing experienced non-commissioned officers and field officers during times of war.

On one of the maps, an injured sniper, Viktor Reznov ( who gives the player " Dmitri Petrenko " the job of sniping ) runs around to tempt German snipers into opening fire, revealing their position and allowing the player to snipe them.

The Mahdi Army relied heavily in the use of improvised explosive devices allegedly smuggled from Iran and engaged U. S forces with sniper fire and intense small arms engagements in the heavily congested urban area.

* Some games require snipers to leave the scope to cycle the bolt ( thus losing the target, preventing the sniper from simply waiting in-scope to fire on his victim again if a kill is not attained ).

* Sniper: Distinguishable by their ghillie suits, the sniper can provide fire support over long ranges while hidden.

For the rest of the siege, there was little action other than occasional raids, minor skirmishes, and sniper fire.

This Gatling was used to eliminate Spanish sniper fire against the American defensive positions on Kettle Hill.

Arab sniper fire on vehicles moving along the access route became a regular occurrence, and road mines were laid.

A fire team consisted of an antitank gunner, usually armed with a Russian made RPG-7s or RPG-18s, a machine gunner and a sniper.

The attack was repulsed, and no further assaults were made against C Company during the day, although they endured sniper fire and mortar bombardment for several hours.

Some weapon types, such as flamethrowers, sniper rifles and artillery bombardment, are especially effective at demoralizing the enemy.

Their progress off the beach was slowed only by an occasional sniper and the need to negotiate their way around the debris and water-filled craters left by the air and naval bombardment.

During the liberation of the Philippines in 1944, Tolosa and its north eastern neighboring towns were spared from bombardment by the United States and Philippine Commonwealth forces when Eagle Scout Valeriano Abello of barangay San Roque braved Japanese sniper fire and directed US and Filipino fire to the exact location of Japanese batteries along Leyte's northeastern coast.

The Qods Force continued to supply Iraqi militants with Iranian-produced advanced rockets, sniper rifles, automatic weapons, and mortars that have killed Iraqi and Coalition Forces, as well as civilians.

It is said he got as close as 25 yards from the German line, where he found three men and continued throughout the night under a constant rain of sniper bullets and bombing.

By the afternoon on 19 March, it was evident that no further progress would be made by the NZ Division in Cassino town — the German paratrooper line held firm, with machine gun, mortar and sniper fire and continued counter-attacks to reduce the NZ perimeter.

For his continued attempts at climbing the slopes of a wadi whilst wounded and under sniper fire, he was awarded the Victoria Cross.

The Barrett M82 is credited with a maximum effective range of ; and it was with a. 50BMG caliber McMillan TAC-50 rifle that Canadian Master Corporal Rob Furlong made the longest recorded ( until 2010 ) confirmed sniper kill in history, when he shot a Taliban fighter at a range of in Afghanistan during Operation Anaconda in 2002.

The sniper is Kalecki, but it does not become clear until later that he was after Manning.

Since the spent cartridge has to be manually removed instead of automatically ejected, it helps a sniper remain better hidden, since not only is the cartridge not flung into the air and to the ground, possibly giving away the sniper's position, but the cartridge can be removed when most prudent, allowing the sniper to remain still until reloading is tactically feasible.

Although officially replaced in the UK with the L1A1 SLR in 1957, it remained in widespread British service until the early 1960s and the 7. 62 mm L42 sniper variant remained in service until the 1990s.

To this day, it remains the most widely produced and longest serving sniper rifle in the world, and remained the Soviet Union's main sniper rifle until it was superseded in 1962 by the semi-automatic SVD Dragunov rifle.

Thomas's son, Colonel Samuel Venner led the Duke of Monmouth's cavalry and was shot and wounded by a sniper in Bridport, but survived until 1712.

The M21 remained the Army's primary sniper rifle until 1988, when it was replaced by the M24 Sniper Weapon System ; some M21s were later re-issued and used in the Iraq War.

Because of intense PAVN sniper and mortar fire ( and the terrain ) it took until nightfall for the relief force to reach the beleaguered battalion.

Consequently the troops of the British 11th ( Northern ) Division ( which had made the initial landing on the night of 6 August ) and the 10th ( Irish ) Division ( which had landed the following morning ) did not advance from the immediate environs of the beach until 8 August, by which time they were already exhausted from lack of water and being under constant shrapnel and sniper fire.

The film was originally scheduled to be released on November 15, 2002, but was delayed until April 4, 2003 due to the Beltway sniper attacks.

Randolph and Buggy struggle for the sniper rifle, until Buggy falls to his death.

These Model 70 rifles never achieved the status of a standard military weapon ; but were used until replaced by the Remington Model 700 series bolt-action rifles which became the basis for the M40 series sniper rifle.

However, the entire platoon is killed off one by one by the sniper, until only Murdock is left.

She is shown fighting through Octobots at a seemingly abandoned factory until being shot by Crossbones with a sniper rifle.

The battle ended at 6: 30 AM, although Israeli troops remained in the trenches due to sniper fire from Givat HaMivtar, until the Harel Brigade overran that outpost in the afternoon.

They appeared to be unaware of the presence of the officers, and walked towards a sniper hold-out, until finally an officer yelled commands to return to the compound, with which the guards complied.