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Reply With QuoteSo their field deployment is, as I perceive, circumstantial .... more of an administrative division of labor?Originally Posted by lemontree
In actual field deployment, do we have any SOPs or is it just a random thing?
The IA has "xyz" snipers authorised per battalion and they are the bn cdrs assets.
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So their field deployment is, as I perceive, circumstantial .... more of an administrative division of labor?
In actual field deployment, do we have any SOPs or is it just a random thing?
In actual war they are used as per the bn cdrs battle plans.
In COIN ops as per the coy cdr, there is no SOP in standard inf bns but it exists in para units.
In COIN ops inf bns use them mainly in OPs.
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What would be the ideal arrangement for you?
"In what you said, were you meaning a situation where only sniper/sniper teams were caught on the business end? Or a sniper /team with a platoon?"
Well when we get down to it that doesn't really matter wrt this question.
M-21(PSG-1, M-25, M-14, Druganov, etc) armed snipers have an excellent short range self defense capability. M-24, M-40, M-89 etc armed snipers are extremely in utility at close range, regardless of the unit they're operating in.
"It also depends on which environment the snipers are fighting in. For instance, in the Vietnamese jungles, where visibility was very limited, snipers would not be of much use because their main advantage- being able to strike from a distance- has been taken away. As Snipe said, when armed with bolt action rifles, they'd be nearly helpless."
As lemon and i have discussed in the past, this is a bit of a myth. In a jungle a sniper team will look for 'lanes' to shoot through, and a good hide will be carefully selected/prepared to offer good lanes, preferably in somewhat elevated terrain.
In war or insurgency?
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Mokokchung
So a dragunov armed sniper would have a chance in close up furballing.
Now with reference with your quote above, the sniper team can do this when they have had the time to prepare. But not much chance in a counter ambush I suppose.
I don't suppose in the US army snipers dont usually hangaround with foot patrols? Always a step ahead or behind?
On patrol I rarely moved during the day. It was always by night, and I deployed during the day. Hence I use to have my sniper and a silenced carbine at hand.Mokokchung
It also depended on the type of patrol. If it was info and show of presence gathering then move by day was inevitable. But if we were on the look out then move was always by night.
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Lemontree, what did/do you do in your army?
I was an officer in an infantry battalion.
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mate don' wana create a contreversy but INSAS are certainly one of the best .
It could have been though as they have been manufactured in NEPAL
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