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In June 2011, the Afghan National Army returned the loaned C7 rifles as the ANA preferred the American M16 rifle. AK-47 Soviet Union: Assault rifle Phased out of the service since 2008. Used by Afghan Special Forces and some regular units. AKM Soviet Union: Assault rifle In storage. AK-74 Soviet Union: Assault rifle: In storage. Type 56
M24 sniper rifle, equipped with an AN/PVS-10 Sniper Night Sight (SNS) [9] Maximum effective range is given as 800 meters (875 yd), but record shots have been made with the M24 at over 1,000 meters (1,094 yd). Meanwhile, the standard optical sight has a maximum elevation adjustment of 1,000 meters (1,094 yd).
Dual combat sighting system: ZF 3×4° optical sight topped with red dot sight as used on German G36A1 assault/sniper rifles. Though they had been used as early as the mid-19th century on rifled muskets, and even earlier for other tasks, it wasn't until the 1980s when optical devices for service rifles, such as the Austrian Steyr AUG and the ...
Semi-automatic rifle [4] Lee–Enfield British Empire: Bolt action: SMLE No.4 Mk.1 rifles captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] Submachine guns; Škorpion: Czechoslovakia: Submachine gun [4] Shotguns; Mossberg 500 United States: Pump-action shotgun: Captured from the former Afghan National Army. [3] Sniper rifles; M24 Sniper Weapon ...
The main sniper rifles used during the First World War were the German Mauser Gewehr 98; the British Pattern 1914 Enfield [59] and Lee–Enfield SMLE Mk III, the Canadian Ross rifle, the American M1903 Springfield, [60] the Italian M1891 Carcano, and the Russian M1891 Mosin–Nagant.
The L115A3 Long Range Rifle. Craig Harrison (born November 1974) [1] is a former Corporal of Horse (CoH) in the Blues and Royals, a cavalry regiment of the British Army, who from 2009 to 2017 held the record for the longest confirmed sniper kill in combat, at a range of 2,475 m (2,707 yd).
The Military history of Afghanistan (Pashto: د افغانستان مسلح ځواک) began before 1709 when the Hotaki dynasty was established in Kandahar followed by the Durrani Empire. [1] The Afghan military was re-organized with assistance from the British in 1880, when the country was ruled by Amir Abdur Rahman Khan .
Local Afghanistan civilians located a group of about six foreign-trained mercenary snipers working in the region, including the Sangin Sniper. Special Forces confirmed through close surveillance the precise co-ordinates of the snipers, then called in United States Air Force F-16 jets, which dropped their Joint Direct Attack Munitions and killed ...