who says we dun have 50 cals?Originally posted by Alphapunk2:The snipers under the army use the mini hecate ar? Singapore so small why use such a long range rifle? Maybe adopt the.50 caliber rifles? Or the M14?
cuz sg too small. all we need is some random country to drop a bomb on us, ggkthnxbye.Originally posted by soulwinner:It beacuse SAF doctine stated that we will never fight a war in our soil./.
Originally posted by specialOps:both are still in use la...cannot overnight change to mini-Hecate.
Anyway 8.6mm mini-Hecate is a smaller version of the full 0.5 (12.7mm) PGM Hecate II.
Why need long range? Common sense will tell you...the further away you start to try killing him, the higher chance u can kill him, even if u miss.
Say you camp 1km away...you miss.. you still got at least 200-300m chance to try before he enters into his rifle's effective range.
If its sniper vs. sniper even better chance to survive.
Longer range = Greater survivability = more possible enemies killed, there's never a rifle that is "too long range".
.50cal Sniper rifles?Originally posted by Rockhound:who says we dun have 50 cals?
i think one Infantry unit has it already. short range very difficult to shootOriginally posted by specialOps:Infantry and Guards Brigades have a sniper unit each.
Ever other type of sniper, if you need to know you will know, if you don't need to know, you'll not read it on this forum.
For rifle types, Steyr SSG and PGM mini-Hecate, and others...if you need to know.
Long ago, when all infantry sections were using only M-16, each section had 1 guy designated as marksman, equipped with a scope for his M-16, but this role has been redundant, since now every SAR-21 is scoped and more accurate than a M-16 with sharpshooter scope.
Supposedly the SAR-21 had an option to refit with 3x scope for the section marksman, but I don't think its implemented yet for SAF Infantry.