03-06-2012, 01:04 AM
LightningII Wrote:sniper body counts depend on "confirmed kills", which are more easily confirmed in some instances than others. Carlos Hathcock, working way out in the boonies, undoubtedly had a bunch of unconfirmed. The guys in urban environments, especially with modern drones doing battlefield surveillance, likely get a higher % of confirmations. I, too, was stunned to see Chris Kyle just put himself out in public like he did.
There's a guy named Dalton Fury ( pseudonym) who claims to be some spooky Delta bin Laden hunter. That dude is careful to never show his face, real deal or not.
Yeah, "Dalton Fury" was PNG'd as a result from the unit. His book describes some detailed methods and techniques that people preferred not to have revealed, among many things. I couldn't make it through his book, to be honest. My main interest was the fact that they were denied from interdicting Osama as he escaped to Pakistan.
If we want to talk confirmed kills, then Simo Häyhä is the "record-holder", and he did it in an extremely short time period that would be questioned nowadays, but he had the most target-rich environment of Russians who were coming through his kill zones in wave after wave, presented nicely against a white background in the Winter War of 1939-1940.