Gunnery Sgt. Carlos Hathcock holds the Marine Corps record for the longest confirmed sniper kill shot. The late Marine sniper set the record in 1967 with a M-2 .50 caliber Browning machine gun. With ...

Ukraine claimed in November that one of its snipers killed a Russian soldier 1.68 miles away. That could make it the second-longest sniper kill of all time. There's no universally verified list of the ...

The Ukrainian military claims a sniper killed a Russian soldier at a distance which, if confirmed, would make it the second-longest known rifle kill in military history. In a post on Telegram last ...

Modern snipers and their rifles are changing the face of the battlefield as we know it Navy SEAL Chris Kyle is known as the deadliest sniper in U.S. military history ...

Although the shot was difficult, it was not impossible, and the claim may well be true. Here are the facts. The Snipex Alligator is more than six feet long. The video shows the sniper’s aiming reticle ...

December 9, 2023: In November 2023 a 58 year-old Ukrainian sniper belonging to the Ukrainian Security Service used a Ukrainian made Horizon’s Lord sniper rifle to break a distance record set in 2017.

“God is not on the side of the big battalions, but on the side of those who shoot best.” — Voltaire (French writer and philosopher), 1694-1778. On Thursday, August 14, 2025, the day before the recent, ...

In other words, such long distance sniper kills are a relatively recent phenomenon. For several decades the longest such shot was the 1967 incident when a veteran U.S. Marine Corps shooter rigged a ...