I am asked why we train marksmen, invest time and resources, and not throw everything exclusively at sniper groups fighting with the longest-range rifles? Today I came across an interesting testimony from the front. Svyatoslav Yavorivsky ( slavko.yavir on fb): "The effectiveness of shooting with an AK-74 or AR-15 at 300-400 m is practically zero, and cartridges cost money. A machine gun firing point immediately becomes a target for drones. No one has canceled infantry combat, but we need to return to the good old mass sniping, that is, marksmen. The Finns once completely demoralized the Red Army in this way. A detachment of stormtroopers should be supported by one machine gun and two marksmen (local accurate separate shooters). This is not a sniper with a two-meter "paddle" of large caliber, but an accurate shooter at 400-500 m, with a semi-automatic rifle, who supports defensive combat or assault from cover. The Americans have been doing this for a long time. To train...
Friends, we are doing unique things for unique people, while the state cannot even implement ordinary things. I am proud that we are doing what no one can and no one does! The state still cannot ensure the reinforcement of drones near Pokrovsk to wipe out the Rubicon unit - in fact, the only russian professional unit of the highest level. And we do not even dream that the state will pay attention to snipers if it cannot win the drone war near Pokrovsk and Myrnohrad! Our snipers are also suffering from enemy drones there and testify that a systematic and expensive countermeasure is necessary - not just to put our drones forward in larger numbers, but to find ways to destroy the enemy drone operators from Rubicon at any cost. In conditions when the state does not provide enough resources to save Pokrovsk and Myrnograd, Zaporizhzhia and Dnipro, we no longer have hope that there will be support for our super-professional snipers. We are working. Yesterday, we paid a 100% advance payment f...