Canadian sniper's bullet flew for ten seconds at speed of 792mph: Soldier even had to account for the Earth's curvature as he killed jihadi from two miles away with shot so powerful it can hit a target through walls.
For me, it is far better to grasp the Universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.
~ Carl Sagan
If the bullet took 10 seconds to get there, it 'fell' approximately 160 feet in that time towards the earth, so the sniper had to aim 160 feet (50m approx) above the target.
(From dynamic equation s = ut + 1/2 f t^2 which I learned 53 years ago. Ask me what I had for breakfast yesterday and I am a little foggy.)
Over two miles the earth's curvature is about 2.5 feet. So whatever compensation the sniper had to do for gravity, it was much much greater than the allowance for curvature of the earth.
He probably picked up a handful of sand, threw it in the air to observe the air current and then fired. It's easy to do. I do it when I'm about to shoot my pellet rifle at the kids on my front lawn, but I throw grass instead of sand...
Canadians have held the record for longest kill shot before.
Former corporal Rob Furlong shot a Taliban fighter in Afghanistan in 2002 from a distance of 2,430 metres. He broke the record set just a few days earlier by another Canadian, former master corporal Aaron Perry, who shot an insurgent from a distance of 2,286 metres.
The history of snipers in the Canadian military goes back much further. Cpl. Francis Pegahmagabow, an Ojibwa member of the 1st Canadian Infantry Battalion, was the deadliest sniper of the First World War, with a record of 378 kills. He still stands as one of Canada's most decorated First Nations soldiers.
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