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Tuesday, 22 January 2008 - 10:41 PM SL Time |  | |
More unknown music for you guys, but with a twist, the video is not theirs, just a montage someone put together, but appropriate for the news.
Anyway I love most of their music, especially when I need to focus on course work, helps me tune out everything else and concentrate :):)
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Tigers deploy snipers to confront SLA troops in Mannaar
At least 12 Sri Lanka Army soldiers were sniped and killed and 27 wounded Tuesday morning when Liberation Tigers Operations Command in Mannaar deployed Tiger snipers to confront advancing SLA troops in Paalaikkuzhi. The SLA movement was repulsed without LTTE casualties, the LTTE command in Mannaar told media.
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BitterTruth
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 22 Jan 2008 16:47:28 GMT Report for Abuse
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Defencewire:
Not humanly possible!
They would require at least 4 teams of snipers for this. A team comprises of an observer/spotter who calls the shot, sometimes chanting 'fire,fire,fire' until the shot is fired, and then confirms target acquisition. The gunner and the spotter must have undergone a tough course on marksmanship, camouflage and conceal (hide and conceal), survival, observation tactics and stalking tactics. The LTTE has such cadres but it is humanly not possible to kill 12 soldiers and wound 27 others in 3 hours in dense thicket, with several hundred trained men using cover to attack you.
So the story has these practical problems.
1. 12 SLA KIA in 3hrs but 27 WIA? Snipers don't shoot to injure. They shoot to kill. How come the snipers managed to hide, conceal, stalk and effectively gun down 12 SLA consecutively in 3 hours?
2. The availability of a 12-8man team of snipers in Mannar North? Snipers don't operate in teams. They operate in twos, but maybe part of a much larger team. This is usually done during long operational duties, in medium or deep battlespace, not during a defensive operation facing a mobility corridor with at least 4 avenues of approaches comprising over 4000 men bearing down on you and your fighters are running helter-skelter!
3. What did the SLA do while 12 soldiers were stalked and killed one by one by one sniper platoon? No ground commander would allow this to happen. This is a fact! |
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 22 Jan 2008 16:52:24 GMT Report for Abuse
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LTTE has outsmarted SLA again and again, I must congratulate our Tiger boys, they are great!!
Mahinda is already blabbering!! He is no match to Piraba! |
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 22 Jan 2008 16:54:12 GMT Report for Abuse
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Defencewire is full of idiots.
LoL.. They always think inside the box.
There's no rule that says snipers must tarvel in two's. It depends on the situtation. Snipers can be used along with regular infantory, or even as part of regular infantory. They can also be grouped and sent out with no spotters assisting them. It all depends on the situation.
This is probably a case where the snipers were already deployed to fixed locations, and they just took out the advancing sla from a stationary/well camaflauged position.
Edited By - kanthun - 22 Jan 2008 16:56:55 GMT |
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22 Jan 2008 16:56:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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BT I agree with Defencewire's summary there, from what I understand snipers were deployed as part of the overall defence, I don't think they are responsible for all the kills, I am sure regular troops were there too, with that many enemy soldiers around would have been hard for sniper teams to move from concealment to concealment as eventually their positions would have been discovered.
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There's no rule that says snipers must tarvel in two's. It depends on the situtation. Snipers can be used along with regular infantory, or even as part of regular infantory. They can also be grouped and sent out with no spotters assisting them. It all depends on the situation.
Well you always want a spotter when possible, of course there are cases when you opperate alone, like the great Vietnam era sniper Carlos Hathcock who spent three days in a field crawling only at the speed the wind waved the grass in order to get close enough to take out a North Vietnamese general, and he did it too :)
But the spotter is the one helping you to correct fire, as he can watch your bullet (quarter turn out of focus on his scope will show the vapour trail of the bullet). |
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22 Jan 2008 17:09:32 GMT Report for Abuse
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But the spotter is the one helping you to correct fire, as he can watch your bullet
Let's put it this way.. The LTTE don't employ the same techniques used by the USA or other conventional armies. Simply because they don't have that many men.. The two team sniper pairs are reserved for important/single targets.
When you're faced with a whole battalion of advancing enemy soldiers to pick from, with no importance to any specific one. The snipers just pick and choose according to the threat level. |
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12 SLA KIA and 27 WIA in 3hrs
Sounds like the work of some amature Snipers.
Remember few months ago how 'Col' Ramanan - LTTE military commmander for Batticaloa fell victim to a Army sniper. So LTTE got to watch out for those Army snipers as well. |
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22 Jan 2008 17:18:46 GMT Report for Abuse
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Let's put it this way.. The LTTE don't employ the same techniques used by the USA or other conventional armies. Simply because they don't have that many men.. The two team sniper pairs are reserved for important/single targets.
Of course not, which is why we keep outsmarting them :):)
But that said they are also not going to expose highly trained snipers to enenmy fire by having them in a sustained role, so I believe the story but not that all casualties were due to the snipers alone, other troops would have had to be in the fight too.
Edited By - Revy - 22 Jan 2008 17:19:03 GMT |
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22 Jan 2008 17:35:03 GMT Report for Abuse
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so I believe the story but not that all casualties were due to the snipers alone, other troops would have had to be in the fight too
I think so too. But that's not to say such a figure is impossible for a sniper team.
I guess we're all speculating here. For all we know the LTTE may not have even employed any snipers but simply made up the story to scare the SLA. LoL |
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22 Jan 2008 17:46:58 GMT Report for Abuse
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Remember few months ago how 'Col' Ramanan - LTTE military commander for Batticaloa fell victim to a Army sniper.
eskimo06,
You see, when Col. Ramanan was killed by a SLA sniper, the victim was in the move. The current battle field could encourage LTTE to deploy more snipers to front, because SLA Weera-Suriyas are being on the move. :)
Edited By - Sritharan - 22 Jan 2008 18:10:33 GMT |
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