The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä ...

Infantry once relied on numbers to solve uncertainty. When soldiers could not see or hit targets precisely, the answer was ...

The first Israeli military sniper rifles were German K98k snipers obtained by the nascent Israeli armed forces in the late ...

On Oct. 7, 1777, British Brig. Gen. Simon Fraser rode a gray horse along the ridge at Bemis Heights, urging his men forward. The Americans had pressed hard against British lines at Saratoga, and ...

A Montana Army National Guard soldier became the first woman in history to graduate from the U.S. Army Sniper Course at Fort Benning, Georgia. “We are extremely proud of this soldier’s achievement and ...

A Ukrainian soldier claims to have set a world record for the longest confirmed sniper kill, taking out two Russian soldiers from a distance of almost two and a half miles, the country’s military ...

American riflemen from Col. Daniel Morgan's Provisional Rifle Corps are depicted at the Battle of Saratoga, October 7, 1777. ...

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 ...

U.S. Army Spc. Benjamin Bell, left, and Sgt. Mackenzie Jones, snipers with the Long Range Surveillance Section, 81st Stryker Brigade Combat Team, Washington National Guard, launch a drone during ...

An armed sniper standing close to the Indian military’s war vehicle smiles and answers people’s, especially children’s, ...