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 a marksman, you need to not dig trenches for 2 months, not disassemble AK-74, but learn to choose a position, camouflage, move smoothly and fire 2000 shots at 400–600 meters. Then there will be no "infiltration" of small groups of orcs, either day or night.
I saw all sorts of weapons from NATO (machine guns, automatic grenade launchers, grenades, assault rifles), but I did not see any .308 caliber marksmen rifles with good day-night optics in the hands of fighters. Because there are none! And why? Because the generals, on instructions "from above", are fixated on anti-drone drones. But the infantry suffers not only from them.
The worst orc is an orc at a distance of 200-400 meters: you can't peck it with an AK, you can't get it with a grenade, you can't cover it with a machine gun, and it crawls along the ditches. And the marksman will wait and catch it. You don't need to invent anything, that's all invented and tested in Iraq. "
I find this testimony very indicative: now more support for marksmen is needed!!!
We are doing everything we can, and we call on everyone to support us!!!