The IOF was merely demonstrating its extremely professional special forces manuever called "Standing Around In The Middle Of A Fucking Urban Warzone In The Open"

you wouldn't understand it, it takes many years for a military force to learn a tactic so strategic and effective

we denounce the cowardice of the Hamas terrorists who desperately improvise counters like "just firing at them lol"

That transition at 0:40 was clean as hell, props to Hamas editors

I would once again like to ask people to be extremely cautious about viewing combat footage and to avoid it unless they have a specific praxis related reason to be viewing it. Watching wartime violence will have a damaging psychological effect on you and cause trauma, and we need you as fit and healthy as possible so you can do praxis shit here that will be far more helpful than watching video of atrocities could ever be.

That said, if the rifle in the video is the one they used to shoot the guy, that appears to be a 12.7mm (.50cal) or very similar cartridge, craft made rifle of a type that's been produced in Syria for years now. Apparently they use the barrels of old AA guns and heavy machine guns. It looks like he took the shot high in the torso, possibly in the plates. But that won't help him - And 12.7mm rounds, whether it's the US or WP 12.7, will punch through any personal body armor that exists effortlessly. If the video depicts what actually happened that dude is probably completely fucked. Getting hit with a 12.7 round is extremely unsurvivable. There are very few sniper rifles, production or craft made, that use rounds bigger than 12.7mm. I'm really only aware of two mass production rifles - one from South Africa that can chamber 14.5mm heavy machine gun rounds or 20mm rounds, one from I think Serbia, and some craft made rifles from the US that can do various heavy machine gun and cannon caliber rounds if you get all the right paperwork.

There are two major groups of 12.7mm ammo in the world - NATO mostly uses .50 BMG, Browning Machine Gun, which is a 12.7mm x 99mm casing. The former Warsaw Pact countries and everyone who buys or builds shit from them uses a 12.7mm x 108mm round. Both were designed for use in heavy machineguns, in the case of the US the venerable Browning M2, and are intended to defeat aircraft, soft vehicles, lightly armored APCs, and anything squishier than a lightly armored APC. The idea of a .50 cal sniper rifle is famous with the crowd.

From what I understand during the course of Syrian civil war, and later the war against ISIS, local gunsmiths began producing high caliber sniper rifles by cutting down and re-working the barrels of old heavy machine guns or anti-aircraft guns that weren't otherwise being used. The barrels are fitted to fairly common layout for a large caliber rifle, basically a big hunting rifle. AFAIK the primary use case was having a really big gun that could reliably defeat VBIEDs (Vehicle Born Improvised Explosive Device), ie a guy driving a truck full of high explosives towards your base. Large caliber rifles are also useful in urban warfare as they can punch holes through residential buildings much more effectively than smaller rounds, allowing the shooter to kill or harass people who would otherwise be difficult to get at. And snipers in general are a potent terror weapon.

.50bmg or 12.7x99 rifles are also good for damaging or disabling vehicles, equipment, materiel, basically anything they can hit from a long, long way off. It's a cheap and efficient way to knock out the engine of a vehicle or destroy radio equipment from a long way off without using a rocket. There are a lot of different kinds of ammo available, including rounds with all different combinations of armor piercing bullets, small high explosive charges, and incendiary charges. I think there's even one that punches through armor, lights stuff on fire, and then explodes which is great when you want to do one of those holywood gasoline explosions by targetting a fuel tank of some kind.

That's everything I can contribute. Thanks for attending "Frank hypocritcally watched the video after telling everyone not to then analyzed the video based on his extensive experience as a :gamer: and American gun humper".

just how dead is that guy who got sniped? that rifle is massive