Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breaking kill shot in Iraq

Re:Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breakin... by Banthum on Thursday June 22, 2017 @01:14PM (#14613722)

Wow, I would've never thought a 3.4km shot was even possible. How fast is a .50cal even going at that distance?

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Re:Canadian elite special forces sniper makes record-breakin... by tandr on Friday June 23, 2017 @04:07PM (#14622319)

Diving into wikipedia [1] gives muzzle velocity for this rifle is 805 m/s. The flight took 10s. Using calculators from calculator soup, I came to a bullet speed of 115 m/s at the end of the flight using linear degradation of speed (-95 m/s^2).

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McMillan_Tac-50

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