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Ukrainian intelligence details the equipment it says Moscow is arming North Korean troops with, from 'Dragunov' sniper rifles to thermal imagers

US officials said at a press conference on Thursday that around 8,000 North Korean troops were in t…

Rebecca Rommen   


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Former Secret Service agent says counter snipers at Trump rally should have had '360 degree coverage' of surrounding buildings

A former secret service agent told Business Insider that the agency's "site plan" for the Trump ral…

Kenneth Niemeyer   


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Andrew Webber's forever war

A successful attorney and decorated vet gave up everything to fight for Ukraine. His family is stil…

Sam Fellman,Ryan Pickrell   


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Video shows one of Taiwan's F-16s tracking a Chinese J-15 fighter jet with its sniper pod during war games

The J-15 is a carrier-based fighter. China's first aircraft carrier, the Liaoning, was part of this…

Chris Panella   


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A former FBI official says Secret Service snipers could have mistaken the Trump shooter for a police sniper

Former FBI official Frank Figliuzzi said in an op-ed that there could have been a communication bre…

Aditi Bharade   


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American sniper in Ukraine says his unit prefers Soviet-era rifles because bullets are easier to find and they can take them from the Russians

An American sniper in Ukraine said his unit prefers AK-74s over Western-provided rifles, partly bec…

Sinéad Baker   


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Russia is furious over reports that a commander sent his best drone operators to die as infantrymen because they criticized him

Dmitry "Goodwin" Lysakovsky and Sergei "Ernest" Gritsai recorded a video saying that their commande…

Matthew Loh   


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American sniper in Ukraine says he couldn't care less about expensive weapons like tanks. 'Give me artillery' and ammo, he says.

A US veteran in Ukraine says shortages have left Ukraine desperate and rationing and that ammunitio…

Sinéad Baker   


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A SWAT sniper at the Trump shooting said his team wasn't briefed and 'had no communication' with the Secret Service before the attack

Jason Woods of the Beaver County SWAT team told ABC that his squad only communicated with Secret Se…

Matthew Loh   


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Russia's 'meat wave' assaults leave frozen corpses uncollected as Russian soldiers 'just go and die,' Ukrainian sniper says

Russia isn't collecting the frozen corpses of soldiers who died in its relentless "meat wave" assau…

Sinéad Baker   


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US special operations forces are searching for a new extreme long-range rifle for their next big fight as Ukraine shows the damage that snipers can do

The new rifle would increase the lethality of already tough forces. The war in Ukraine has highligh…

Stavros Atlamazoglou   


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A Ukrainian soldier is claiming the world's longest sniper kill, using a gun named 'Horizon's Lord'

Ukraine's Special Forces say a sniper took out a Russian combatant from a record 2.36 miles away.

Mia Jankowicz   


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The Ukrainian sniper team claiming the world's longest kill shot described how they shot a Russian officer from over 2 miles away

The sniper team used a laser and had to factor in wind, humidity, and air temperature to make the r…

Natalie Musumeci,Jake Epstein   


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A Ukrainian sniper said he tracked and took out a Russian for wounding his friend

The top Ukrainian sniper said: "I went to my wounded friend, showed him the video and said: 'He's d…

Alia Shoaib   


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Trump is praising the Secret Service even though many say it failed badly to protect him

Donald Trump praised the Secret Service for its response to the shooting, telling The New York Post…

Hannah Abraham   


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Who was Thomas Matthew Crooks, the Trump rally shooter?

The man who shot at Donald Trump was a 20-year-old from Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, and a registered…

Cameron Manley   


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US: Gunman who shot Donald Trump at Pennsylvania rally identified

Crooks of Bethel Park, Pennsylvania, fired shots, one of which grazed Trump in the ear at an outdoo…

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Ukraine claims to have invented an 'invisibility cloak' to help its snipers and specialists evade detection from Russian troops

Ukraine's Minister of Digital Transformation, Mykhailo Fedorov, said that the invention will "help …

Alia Shoaib   


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Ukrainian snipers hunting top enemy commanders are exploiting one of the Russian military's biggest vulnerabilities

Russia's top-down, officer-centric command leaves the army vulnerable to confusion and paralysis if…

Ryan Pickrell   


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Special ops sniper rates 11 more sniper scenes in movies and television

Nicholas Irving, a former special-operations sniper and an author, rates 11 more sniper scenes in m…