“The accuracy and range of this rifle (the SVLK-14S) sound almost unreal and yes, audacious. Its owners often display less than 0.2 MOA of a group of five shots, with such a powerful cartridge as .408 ...

Life of Chiang Wei-kuo, the Chinese Wehrmacht Panzer Commander: Japanese snipers during the Second World War have, surprisingly enough, not been subject to a lot of research and writing. The Japanese ...

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Sniper rifles expanded battlefield engagement distances from under 3,000 feet in WWII to over 7,500 feet today. The Barrett M82 and .50 BMG platforms transformed sniping by enabling anti-materiel ...

Häyhä is believed to have been a major inspiration for Aatami Korpi, the stoic main character of the ongoing “Sisu” film series. During the Winter War of 1939-40, the small northern European nation of ...