Heliborne Shotgun Snipers

摘要

I've recently spoken to some of my British contacts who were involved in security at the 2012 London Olympics. One of the more interesting e-mail exchanges was about the RAF Regiment heliborne snipers who were armed with shotguns. Helicopter snipers have generally been armed with self-loading rifles using low-power optics with wide fields of view. Since I'm using British counterter-rorist forces as the basis for this article, let me use the Special Boat Service as an example. For many years, SBS heliborne snipers used HK G3 rifles with 4X Hensoldt scopes.