What did they do with Chechen snipers (women) in the war. Stories. Special forces officer about modern snipers in the armed forces of Russia (9 photos) Taking off pink glasses

“At sniper courses, the trainer (or let's call him a sniper instructor) pays great attention not only to technical, physical, but also PSYCHOLOGICAL training. A sniper lives with his cargo (killed people, God forbid, of course) all his life. He remembers everyone he worked for. And with this "photo album" not everyone can live in peace. Our shooting coach told a lot of stories about how people broke down after their first one and asked to go anywhere, but not with a “paddle” in the mountains. Psychologically, a person suitable for this military profession is very different from ordinary people.

A special forces officer shares his opinion on the modern use of snipers in the Armed Forces. Perhaps some of his conclusions may seem too harsh, but they are based on rich combat experience. The author's style is preserved.

An inquisitive young man must have such a picture before his eyes. Here he alone with a faithful sniper rifle makes his way through the territory controlled by members of illegal armed groups (fascists, zombies, orcs). He is wearing a shaggy cloak of the “goblin” type, and his physiognomy is all in streaks of camouflage makeup. And now he alone "performs" the figurant, having finally seen his face, distorted in anticipation of imminent death. Doesn't it remind you of anything? Yeah, the movie "Sniper" with Tom Berenger in the title role.

Another "sniping" romantic, who played both Doom and Contra on the computer, ran around with a paintball "bolt" and "performed" more than a dozen defendants, decides: here it is, mine! Moreover, spring is the time for conscription. Where do I go? In the army, in the snipers! Yep, right now. Well, let's start to get disappointed, shall we?

Taking off rose-colored glasses

Sniper course? Has anyone seen the named courses? For example, in civilian life? Naturally, no. There are sections of bullet shooting and the like. But they won't train a sniper there. The coach in the section may be a real master of sports or even a champion and a good teacher. If you have the makings and abilities, then you will be trained as an athlete, not a sniper. Of course, this gives skills, experience in handling weapons, determining the distance to targets, calculating corrections, and so on. But the experience, you see, is specific.

You will shoot from a sporting rifle, this time. You will perform sports exercises, and not on a live target, that's two. Your target will be either static or moving according to the conditions of the exercise and will be at the established ranges. You will be wearing a comfortable sports uniform, you will be full and well rested. Well, perhaps you, as a well-trained athlete, will become a little “melancholic”, and nothing will annoy you and distract you from the conditions of the exercise. But sport and the performance of a combat mission differ radically (more on that below).

If you, having experience in training in the shooting section, were drafted into the army and you were sent to a specialized training (of which we have a couple of pieces left), no sniper instructor will train you PSYCHOLOGICALLY! Does he need it? Where is the "Instruction on the psychological preparation of a sniper"? There's no such thing. And all the dregs that roam the Internet as educational material are no good.

About heavy photo album

Let's return to the preface again: "The sniper lives with his load ...". Here's the poor thing! He has a photo album, you see, before his eyes, it interferes with life. Is such a "photo album" possible in principle?

From SVD, for example, the optimal range when firing prone to hit the enemy's head is 400 meters. And who among us, even with a PSO-1 sight at such a distance, is able to see a face? What's a "photo album"? If someone has to shoot at a real target, then he will most likely see a dark figure that has fallen down - and nothing more. There are other snipers in order to shoot at the "subject-figurant" by seeing his face. And believe me, they serve in other structures, and not in the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation and not even in the Internal Troops of the Ministry of Internal Affairs. But we are still talking about the Armed Forces, so we continue to analyze the preface. Someone's coach there said that after the "first" sniper broke down and did not ask to "paddle through the mountains." And why, then, was he taken at all?

Imagine that the commander of the group broke down after the first battle, the reconnaissance sapper drank himself after the first “lifting” with a real result, the artilleryman went to the monastery after the first successful attack, etc. In my opinion, this is nonsense.

About Tom, ours, Berenger

Okay, let's leave the preface. Let's deal with Tom our Berenger. Cinema is cinema. Here the hero of Tom received the task of removing the head of the drug cartel. Our hero goes to carry out the task. Let's consider what he brings with him.

Well, the first, of course, is the rifle. In my opinion, M24, if not, correct me. Its curb weight is 7 kilograms and about two hundred and sixty grams, this is with straps for transportation and with optics. Further, the ammunition for the task is at least one hundred rounds. The weight of the NATO cartridge is 7.62 X51–15.7 grams. Total, together with pouches for carrying them, another 3 kilograms. Tom's second weapon was the good old M1911 A Colt. The weight of 1 kilogram is 120 grams. 100 pieces of cartridges of 45 caliber for a pistol - another 1.5 kilograms. Signal and smoke rockets - 1 kilogram. Grenades, 4 pieces, - 3 more kilograms. Means of technical intelligence, say, binoculars with a built-in range finder - 1 kilogram. Means of communication. Since Tom is walking alone, he has a means of communication with the Combat Operations Control Center. The terrain is mountainous and wooded, and AN / PRC radios operating in the VHF band will not work, so something stronger is needed. Let's take a satellite station with a previously allocated channel. So, it will be AN / PSC-5, which is powered by two batteries, each weighing 2.04 kilograms, and the station itself weighs about 2.8 kilograms. Let's not forget about spare batteries, which means plus 4 kilograms. Well, the storage device, I / O, headset - another 1 kilogram.

Is it hard for you, Tom? But there is still a cape, a camouflage suit - this is 1.5 kilograms without branches and leaves. An individual first aid kit weighs 0.5 kilograms. Water, dry rations, interchangeable socks, a knife with a survival kit, a rug, a poncho, and so on give another seven kilograms. And now let's count. I came out under 40 kilograms. Taking into account the requirements of secrecy, a valiant sniper is landed 15 kilometers from the area of ​​​​the task. At the same time, he must stomp his legs, penetrate as close as possible to the object and destroy the subject. But in the movies, we see a peppy bison-sniper, absolutely not tired when moving in the humid atmosphere of a mountainous and wooded area. In the frame, only flirtatious stains of masking makeup.

How did you conduct additional reconnaissance of the object alone? How did you get in? Oh, how everything is beautiful in a movie! But in reality? Have you tried to crawl up a hill with a load of at least 20 kilograms when the temperature is at thirty or forty degrees, or even more? One man, of course, is less noticeable in the selva than a group, but even alone, if you are half Tom Berenger and half John Rambo, little will come of it. Too much fatigue, both moral and physical. Under favorable conditions, the transition on an unfamiliar route will last a day or more. This means that it is necessary to precisely coordinate and verify the timing of the withdrawal subgroup, to verify information from informants and intelligence to the smallest nuances. Take into account a bunch of factors, including force majeure. The sniper, if he gets to the object in time and penetrates the perimeter, then most likely he will not be able to shoot. For a more or less successful liquidation of the subject, based on the practice of various units, a minimum of a couple is required, and a group of four is best. That's when something will look more or less believable.

How really

Now, for some realism. When did we still use snipers, and exactly as it is drawn on some Internet forums - as a free lone hunter?

In the North Caucasus region? I remember the first Chechen campaign. I had a sniper in my group. Do you think I let him go somewhere a few kilometers away for “free hunting”? In fact, a scout with a banal SVD departed a maximum of 100 meters from the group and was always in sight or audibility. He worked according to my target designations or according to whoever he notices. Often, when I shouted, when I didn’t see the result: “Well, did you hit it?”, A simple answer followed: “Yes, he knows, he seemed to have fallen.”

When conducting reconnaissance and combat operations in urban conditions, I used a sniper on my own, as it turned out later, correctly. When moving in urban areas, he was always close to me in battle order. A scout was always paired with him. During reconnaissance of any house, this couple did not go inside, they were used as an observation group. The second scout was left with a station and binoculars, several rocket-propelled grenades or RPGs. The couple monitored the windows, insured the exits. A sniper with an SVD has nothing to do in the house. When conducting reconnaissance and search operations in a mountainous and wooded area, the sniper was in his regular place in the battle order of the group. In other special forces units, as far as I know, snipers acted in exactly the same way. They were exhibited "on the chip" in the area of ​​\u200b\u200bthe basing or PVD of the detachment, but no one went anywhere alone. True, there were exceptions, this concerned officers, but even those did not depart further than a kilometer from the detachment. The second campaign was exactly the same. I'm sure there will be a lot of people who want to challenge my opinion. For God's sake! Only I operate with facts. About a conditional sniper in a real combat situation

So, you are the leader of the group. You have a regular number of snipers. Will you send your scout, conscript or contractor, one or two, someone to "execute"? The question is who? Does the group commander have information about some persons involved (leaders of the illegal armed formations) in the area of ​​​​responsibility of the detachment? It is unlikely, or rather, it does not. It is good if the commander of the detachment and the chief of the operational-intelligence department have established contact with the operational-intelligence groups operating in the area, with "operas" from other bodies and departments that have their own agents. Then the information will be available, but the commander of the detachment is unlikely to be able to implement it himself, and the commander of the group or the commander of the company even more so. In order to launch the Special Forces WG to perform a task, a combat order from a higher headquarters is necessary. And the order is signed by the chief of intelligence of the group and the chief of staff. Of course, the directive to the detachment draws up an order, and the head of the department checks. The order is not made in a vacuum. Studying the situation in the area of ​​responsibility of the detachment, collecting information from all sources, coordinating in all structures, checking information on several types of intelligence (radio, undercover, air thermal imaging), information from local, information from other interacting structures, etc. - this is what precedes the adoption of a specific decision. So, I have never made a single order to send a sniper (three times experienced). Yes, and other directions too. I'm talking about my combat experience from 2000 to last year 2012. And if he had compiled it, then the head of the department would have twisted it at his temple and sent me ... Well, what if he didn’t send me? Imagine: for the sake of one person (even the most well-trained sniper), you need to start an operational case, coordinate artillery covering fires, and keep the group ready for evacuation. And the connection? He's a sniper, not a radio operator. And without it, there’s no way, we don’t have satellite small-sized stations, like Tom’s, which means that we have to carry the ARC station. Although no, you are going far, and she is dear, you will still lose. Therefore, you are wearing the usual R-159 with the T-240 classification equipment and a set of spare batteries for it. And so on... Considering the realities, our sniper, unlike a movie hero, will carry a load of about 60 kilograms. But also helicopter sorties must be planned. But, as usual, there is no weather, and the board was given over to the commander, so the sniper will go on foot. Do you think he will go? No. After all, among other things, he knows the stories about the scouts-murderers well. About those who exterminate local residents, and those who like to collect wild garlic far from home and with a machine gun in their hands. He remembers that after a couple of clashes, the entire detachment was overwhelmed by employees of the prosecutor's office and demanded to confess to criminal acts. The scout is now savvy, he is well aware that he has no legal basis for shying through the forests and eliminating the defendants.

Therefore, our experienced sniper will go out peacefully behind the parapet, equip a day room a hundred meters from the camp and will sit there all the time the group is performing a combat mission, waiting for target designation from the commander.

About weapons

What else? Why do I write about SVD all the time, because we still have samples that are in service. For example, VSS. Range - 400 meters. The weapon is specialized and has shown itself well, but it probably does not fit much into the context referred to in the material. There were cases when, in the presence of several VSS and AS in the RGSpN, very successful silent ambushes were carried out, but you must admit that for the “performance” of the person involved, there must be a certain margin both in range and in terms of application.

Well, for the rest of the rifles. The B-94 weighs 11.7 kilograms and has an effective range of almost two kilometers with a 13x scope. And now tell me, is this “fool” needed to be dragged in a group? It used to be dragged a couple of times, but quickly abandoned. In the forest, a range of two kilometers is useless. And the rifle is large-caliber and specific. To work with her, the sniper must be taught. Long and hard. In the winter of 2000, guys from an adjacent department went with us, namely a sniper pair. They reached the forest and stopped, they themselves realized that there was no point in going any further. This rifle is good for combat operations in urban environments, and as an anti-sniper weapon. Her penetration is good, but our sniper, who currently serves only a year, does not need it at all.

SV-98 caliber 7.62 X54, made on the basis of the sports "Record", accurately shoots at 800 meters. The rifle is expensive, snipers need to be trained, but they serve only a year. What's the point? Still break or lose, but the result?

About foreign samples like AV or HK, I generally keep quiet. Is there an alternative to inexpensive and simple, like five kopecks, SVD? Maybe there's. For example, the same Mosin SVM rifle. Cheap and cheerful. Hang the optics and target designators, shoot and go. Our cartridge is 7.62 X54, effective range is 2000 meters, lethal range is 3000 meters. I tried. Fine, it'll work for us. If you know how to shoot. About a platoon of snipers

What are the current realities of the Armed Forces of the Russian Federation, which in recent years have received the so-called "new look". It turns out that platoons of snipers appeared in the states of motorized rifle and airborne brigades!

I have a question: for what? How do we now see combat operations in the event of a real big war or a simple local conflict? We are moving away from old dogmas. At numerous training camps, we, officers of the level not lower than the brigade commander, were shown "new ways" of conducting combat operations. For example, an air assault brigade is conducting an offensive with the forces of several separate battalions in its front line, bypassing fortified sectors and areas and breaking through into the operational space with the support of attack aircraft, helicopters and artillery. Pockets of resistance are bypassed from the flanks and left to be torn to pieces by high-precision weapons - artillery and bomber aircraft. Why, then, with deep raid actions of battalions, snipers? How will this platoon be used?

When conducting defense, it turns out even more interesting. The line of contact of troops will now occupy a width not of several hundred meters, but of several kilometers, which is made up of the range of artillery of all levels: from the brigade to the level of operational command, the range of destruction of targets by missile troops, the strip of mining, obstacles, the range of reconnaissance equipment and many more. Large exercises with a defensive theme just showed this. That is, the range of targets for snipers will be beyond 1000 meters. Based on the performance characteristics of the SVD, what follows? That's right, we need another rifle, the same B-94. Will our defense industry be able to provide all sniper platoons of brigades with long-range rifles? Hardly...

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We move along the bridge to the central location. In an open area, the tactics are as follows: they fired from a rifle, and immediately ran into the nearest well, and we sit there until the alarm passes. So you can move for a long time until you come to the central gate. Our main goal is further, in the back of the yard.

We go to the main entrance. Immediately kill the enemy on the left. We go to him, search, and shoot from a silent pistol. After a short sweep, head to the right, towards the sniper position, take it to shoot at the enemies as much as possible, but keep in mind that the enemies will still hear you shot, so be ready to reflect the attacks.

After you have cleared the environment, go towards the star, climb the stairs and enter the room. We watch a video stating that there is a note with classified information, after which we eavesdrop on the conversation of two soldiers. The main thing to pay attention to is the officer we need with a wound in the arm. Now we leave the room, shooting the surrounding Fritz as quietly as possible, and climb to the very top, lie down, take out the binoculars and wait for the three officers to meet, talk and disperse. Look carefully at their hands. The officer we need will go to the left. His hand will be rewound, which can only be seen through binoculars. You can't shoot at them. We are waiting for them to disperse, we get down and then we can already knock down one, then another, and bring the main one with a bandaged hand to the end until he comes to the door of the house. After that, it must be searched. You now have Valen's diary.

It remains to break through the fights to the exit. Destroy soldiers and especially snipers, do not leave them behind. Closer to the exit you have to deal with the tank. He will run around in circles. There will be a building in the center. Climb up the stairs to the second floor of this building, there will be a Faustpatron. Take it, go down, go to the rear of the tank and hit from behind or on the side. Try not to hit the caterpillar, but take it higher. Otherwise, you will knock down the caterpillar, and the tower will rotate, and you have one cartridge. So it will be hard for you. If you hit in such a way that the tank turret does not rotate, calmly approach from behind, plant dynamite under the tank, move away and shoot at the dynamite. It explodes, the tank is destroyed.

Then we follow to the exit. We watch a short cutscene, after which we will need to destroy two snipers who crawled out to the right. One is killed almost immediately, but the second will have to tinker. Climb up to the second floor of the building, opposite it, go to the left window and shoot accurately, then move back to the armored car. Everything, the level is passed.

After the introductory video, we get the first installation - to kill the snipers. We leave the building, take a position on the ramparts. We squat, aim at the optical sight [RMB] and destroy marked targets. We go down from the hill, we are told that it is necessary to destroy the enemy spotter. He stands openly on the mountain, only the blind will not notice. We shoot him in the head. Now the city will not be bombarded with mortar shells.

Now you need to destroy the enemy machine gunner on the car. We use binoculars to highlight vulnerable spots. We find red zones of the fuel tank and engine on the transport.

The next task is to destroy the Nazi checkpoints. We go north through the gorge to the pass.

Side mission:

• Get 8 silent kills

It's time to use the gun. All outfits can be viewed by holding the key [Q]. We select the Verlord pistol and use it for covert passage. If we want to perform additional the task is to kill everyone in close combat from the back [E]. We kill several enemies on the way to the post. Then we deal with the tools. We grab the dynamite, select it in the inventory wheel and hold [F] throw near the gun. One well-aimed shot at dynamite - and everything will fly into the air. There will be 3-4 more such posts, each with about 3-4 Germans. The firing of the guns drowns out our shots. This also applies to thunderstorms, broken equipment, etc.

When we destroy everything, we will open the passage to the gorge. We complete the mission.

Mission 2: Gaberun

Before starting a mission, you can set up weapon profiles and choose your layout.

In this mission, we have to eliminate General Valen - an important German officer. Ahead we kill a lone German. So we will reach a position from which we have a view of the entire German base. Our goal is to eliminate and search the officer. A broken generator will help us in silent elimination, which will mask our shots. We mark all visible enemies with the help of binoculars, then aim at the enemy and shoot when the noise icon is on top.

Now it remains only to go down the path and search the officer. But that's not all. We need to eliminate three more officers. We move to the north and destroy a group of Germans. Then we move to the hill to the left to the sniper position. We eliminate the German there and break the generator. Now we can silently fire at enemies. We kill the first of three officers from this position and all enemies nearby.

To get to the second officer, we need to follow along the river. Ahead we will see a group of Nazis, we throw a grenade there, we search the officer.

We follow straight. The third officer can be found in the corner of the map near the tent. We'll have to make our way to him through the truck garage.

Side mission:

• Destroy the garage

To destroy equipment, we hit weak spots with a rifle. In total, five vehicles will have to be destroyed.

After killing all three officers, we will have to eliminate one more. We return to the side of the garage with cars and move on. We go around the enemy on the right or left side, hiding in the bushes and get to the temple. It’s better not to go ahead, it will only take more time and effort. After killing the Germans near the entrance on the right or left, we climb inside the temple and eliminate the last officer and guard who can stand on the scaffolding above.

Well, the final task in the mission will be to kill the general, who is leaving in an armored personnel carrier. We use mines that can be laid out on the path of the transport or climb the tower and shoot at the weak points of the equipment - the engine. It remains to run to the gate to the exit.

Mission 3: Halfaya Gorge

In the village ahead we destroy a couple of three targets. We cross the bridge and get to the indicated point. Our task is to destroy three anti-aircraft guns Flak 88.

The first will be located nearby to the left in front. We go carefully into the building past the guards, kill the fascist there and follow further through the building. At the exit, we break the apparatus so that it makes noise and turn left, moving towards the cave.

Let's get to the territory of the location of the first gun. We rise to the building on the left, there we will have to eliminate the enemy. We examine explosive objects with binoculars. Fine. As we hear a masking sound, we shoot at the projectile that lies nearby. The first cannon has been destroyed. It remains to clear the territory from the rest of the soldiers and look around.

We will go to the village. We inspect the village with binoculars and in this way we will find the roof of the building with the signature "Explored" not far from the antenna. We follow there and pick up the documents. They will open a task to kill a certain general. According to the data, it is located at one of the two artillery positions.

Side mission:

• Arrange a diversion

To do this, it is not necessary to go to the garage, but it is enough from this sniper position to shoot at the fuel tank right under our noses. Or rather, in the faucet, highlighted in red.

Side mission:

• Cut communications

In the basement of one of the neighboring buildings, you can find a shield with wires. We cut them and consider the task completed.

Then we move on to the rest of the artillery positions. Everyone will have to shoot from a distance. On one, we destroy enemies near the tower and climb up, there we also kill a fascist with a rocket launcher. We examine the place of destruction with binoculars. We find the canister highlighted in red in the depths of the cave and shoot at it.

We follow to the last point, climb into the cave, destroy two fighters and again shoot at the barrel highlighted in red to destroy the artillery crew.

After completing the task, we move to the sabotage group. Along the way, we will encounter an enemy Panzer III tank. Will have to destroy it. It has weaknesses that can be identified with binoculars. These are the bars at the back. There is also a front driver's slit. To destroy the tank, you will have to make four well-aimed shots at weak spots. You can also use the Panzerschreck or the more affordable dynamite. We throw on the path of the tank and make a well-aimed shot from a long distance from a sniper rifle.

Mission 4: Fort Rufigio

In this mission, our task is to free the informer from captivity. We must get to the fortress. But first, we inspect the area with binoculars and proceed. We'll get side quests right away.

Side mission:

• Disable searchlight towers

We head to the first tower, go around it on the left and remove a couple of enemies. We climb up, remove the fascist and break the searchlight. Let's go to the next one. Be careful with the patrol car. Dead bodies should not be found on the road.

There are two entrances to the fort: the main one and on the right of the building, using scaffolding. Eliminate all enemies inside the fortress. We find a prisoner in the fortress. The keys to the cell are with the senior officer. We get an order to search him. We find him, if we haven't killed him yet, we kill him and take the keys. We return to the cell and rescue the prisoner.

We go out onto the roof and use the rocket launcher to get rid of the enemies that have arrived in the yard. Now the path is clear, you can go down. We rise to the wall and cover the agent from there. We protect him until he leaves the territory of the fort.

Mission 5: Siwa Oasis

In the beginning, we are faced with the task of penetrating the old city. There are only two ways here: through the main gate or to the right of the entrance where the anti-aircraft gun is. We will also receive a task to destroy anti-aircraft guns.

Side mission:

• Destroy three anti-aircraft guns

They are marked with a marker, so there will be no problems with the search. We throw a grenade near each and finished.

After the destruction of the first anti-aircraft guns, we penetrate the territory of the city. You can immediately climb to the sniper position and destroy visible enemies from there. We shoot at the moment when the plane will fly by.

Side mission:

• Explore German warehouses

We go along the edge of the map and destroy anti-aircraft guns, at the same time we can find one German warehouse.

Then follow the marker to Valen's office. We watch the video and follow the shooting position. On the first floor of the building you can find a German warehouse. We go up. We will see three German officers. We need to watch them and mark the right one, he will be with a bandaged hand.

After their meeting and conversation, we wait until the officer we need proceeds into the building and takes the reconnoitered. Now you can shoot him.

Side mission:

• Make his death look like an accident

We take the explored from his corpse and leave the old city. A tank will appear on the way again. We use dynamite, throw it on the road and shoot it when the tank approaches with explosives. It remains to kill a couple of German snipers to complete the mission.

Mission 6: Kasserine Pass

We follow forward, passing by tanks and trucks. Our partner will mark targets for us. We take a sniper position. Soon we will receive a task to undermine two Nebelwerfers.

Side mission:

• Disable two Nebelwerfers

These mortars are marked with markers. We shoot at nearby fuel barrels and blow them up.

We need to infiltrate Valen's headquarters. To begin with, it is better to clear the entire area around him, since this will still have to be done. The headquarters is located in the temple. Inside we examine the documents on the table. We learn that Oberst Johan has the combination from the safe.

We go to the marked point and kill the target, plus a few more Fritz. We search the corpse, and having received the combination, we move forward a little more towards Bauer, before the cut-scene turns on. Our ally will die, and we will have to deal with the Tiger. You can use dynamite by throwing it on the road and wait for the entrance of the tank. We get rid of the car with a well-aimed shot at explosives. You can also shoot at the driver's hatch and already get rid of a stationary tank by any means. It is better to shoot from a comfortable position on the tower.

It remains to return to the temple. But first you need to kill all the Nazis. It is best to do this from the slope opposite the temple. The enemy transport, by the way, must also be destroyed. Then we run to the temple and open the safe. After the video, we need to pick up the partner's body. So we go there. There will be a couple of enemy snipers on the way, but if you go to the point by the leftmost route, then you should not worry about them.

Mission 7: Pont Du Fa Airfield

At the beginning of the mission, we need to gain access to a complex of underground bunkers. We get down below and follow to the left. We go forward, hiding from the soldiers, there will not be many of them on the way. Having reached the trenches, we wait until two Germans go to the right, go to the point and activate the electrical panel in the bunker. Now you need to find a map to get to the Rat tank factory.

We follow the opened door, for this we move along the trenches to the opposite side and go into the bunker, go down the stairs. We get rid of the two Germans below with a pistol, we reach the corridors of the hall with the location of the map. We get rid of enemies there, we select reconnoitered ones.

Side mission:

• Free the captives

In the bunker, we open a cage with prisoners. Now we leave the bunker and follow to the sniper position to cover the allies.

Side mission:

• Eliminate the radio operator in the bunker

Along the way, you can meet a radio operator in the bunker, who can be killed so that he does not call for reinforcements.

Now it's worth taking a look. Snipers will hide on the rocks ahead, and to the left of the trenches there is an enemy transport with a gun. We remove the snipers until they notice us, then we shoot at the weak spot on the car - the gas tank in the rear side part.

We follow the sniper position to support the allies. We shoot at the soldiers while our units are driving around in a car.

The next task will be to destroy the arrived equipment of the enemy: tanks and vehicles. You have to run from target to target.

Side mission:

• Destroy the bomb stack

So we will find a stack of bombs that must be destroyed. There are barrels next to each of the three, we aim at them and they will be finished.

Side mission:

• Eliminate the radio operators on the control tower

That's all, we make our way to the evacuation point.

Mission 8: Ratte Factory

From the starting point, we follow down the descent to the bridges into the canyon. On the way we get rid of the Nazis. We will have a new task - to destroy the transformers at each level. They are found one on each side of the canyon. At the end we find the first one, build it into a barrel and destroy it. There is also a passage to the sniper position. From it we destroy enemies on the other side and on the bridge.

Side mission:

• Take the blueprints of German weapons

On the territory there will be rooms (next to the transformers) in which you can find blueprints.

We leave for the ammunition depot for the "Rat". We go up the stairs to the second floor and install explosives. We go down to the elevator. Let's watch the video.

We descend to the bottom of the canyon to the location of a huge tank. We need to install four charges on the supports around the tank. We move along the left side and set charges, get rid of enemies along the way. Gradually we rise up and reach the last place of laying. Then we climb onto the tower and set the charge there. It remains to go down from the tank and run to the exit from the hangar. Along the way, you will have to destroy several enemies. We take a sniper position and shoot at the crane-beam, highlighted in red.

Congratulations, General Valen is dead, game over!

What did they do with Chechen snipers (women) in the war.
As you know, in the first and second Chechen companies, mostly mercenaries took part, but sometimes there were female mercenaries who fought exclusively by killing with sniper rifles. And when they caught the so-called snipers, they did this to them, it was a war and cruel.
For example:
"Typhoon" special forces, said that in the well in the courtyard of the headquarters, especially militant staff colonels drowned a sniper.
The Marines chopped them up with sapper shovels. Here is a video where the Marine says:

Wolves in white pantyhose. Seventeen-year-old biathlete Lolita.

I will kill you slowly because I love you. I'll shoot you in the leg first, I promise to aim for the kneecap. Then a hand. Then eggs. Don't be afraid, I'm a candidate for master of sports. I will not miss, - the voice of the sniper Masha sounded clearly on the radio, as if she was lying somewhere very close, and not hiding hundreds of meters from here.

A seventeen-year-old biathlete who arrived in Chechnya for

earnings from a small Ural town. She had to shoot at her own. However, she didn't care who she aimed at. They just paid better on the other side. The contract soldier with whom she chatted on the radio every night out of boredom had already become accustomed to the caustic notes in her voice. Like the whistle of bullets from her rifle. How to "cargo 200". She didn't have time to kill anyone. And she didn't earn anything. I came across a stretch that ours put in the mountains. A day later they killed him. Shot in the head, bullet - 7.62. Sniper.
"White Pantyhose" - ruthless ghosts, hitting right on target. They are hated. They are afraid. They are being hunted. Only those who kill them know their faces.
Caught alive, these women perceive shooting on the spot, a bullet in the forehead, instant death as the greatest mercy. After them there is nothing left, not even a real name. Only legends and curses.

The True Story of Lolita

A terry pink dressing gown is tightly tightened at the waist, a transparent white scarf is on her head. She either fiddles with him in her hands, then brushes away a tear with him. Dyed blond hair, golden teeth, faded gray-green eyes and white, almost matte skin, it doesn’t seem to be ugly, but it will pass and you won’t notice.
Every evening, when dozens of convicts gather in front of the TV after work in the sewing shop to watch the evening news, she hides in the farthest corner of the cell. "Well, he did the right thing, that he killed. So she, bitch, should be!" the women shout excitedly when they see the trial of Colonel Budanov on the screen. "Yes, crush them, bastards! Wet in the toilet!" - the president's favorite quote is heard from everywhere.
- In the zone, no one knows that she was a sniper in Chechnya and shot at Russian soldiers. And in her criminal case there is not a word about this, - they immediately warned me in one of the women's colonies in the Krasnodar Territory. She doesn't shy away from anyone, but she doesn't make friends with anyone either. If you write her real name, she will be killed immediately.
It was about Lena that a terribly romantic story went around Chechnya during the first war. For her extraordinary beauty, youth and ability to shoot accurately, the militants called her Lolita. In the detachment of Shamil Basayev, she appeared in 1995. She came from her native Ukraine to earn ... for her wedding and a dowry. However, she quickly forgot her fiancé, because she fell in love with a real "wolf", field commander Sulima Yamadayev. Under the roar of battle and the whistle of bullets, their happiness did not last long - the "wolf" was killed, much later Aslan Maskhadov posthumously awarded him the rank of brigadier general, and the inconsolable "wolf" began to take revenge. Moreover, it was aimed at our fighters at the "causal place", below the belt. So, at least, the legend went.
“I don’t know anything about Lolita and “white tights,” Lena rolls her eyes theatrically and immediately brings her handkerchief to them. - And I got to Chechnya long before the war, in the very beginning of the 90s. She lived with her parents and little brother in Konstantinovka, Donetsk region, studied well. Mom worked then as a warehouse manager, and my father also did not sit without work. True, often applied to the bottle. After the 8th grade, together with Marinka, my school friend, we went to Nikolaev to study as a cook. For the spring holidays, Marinka offered to go to Chechnya, to trade in clothes. We got to Prokhladny by train, from there we got to Grozny by bus. On the train, our birth certificates were taken away from us, and I wasn’t even 16 then. They locked me up for four days in some apartment, they said that we wouldn’t work the road with just clothes. We worked out ... They would take them out to the field, then into the mountains - who shoots, who else does what - they amused themselves as they wanted. My girlfriend periodically disappeared somewhere, and I was sold to a new tormentor. I can’t remember all this ... - and she cries. “My torment ended only when Musa heard about me and saved me. He didn't know anything about my past. For some reason I believed him.

From the dossier "MK".

Musa Charaev, field commander. An active participant in the hostilities of 1994-1996, together with his detachment, "lit up" in many bloody skirmishes. A friend of Basayev, who often visited his house. And if Charaev before the war was a simple rural tractor driver who earned money by selling wine brought from the Kalinin winery, then after that he was the owner of a decent "piece" of the Baku-Novorossiysk oil pipe, generously presented to him by the President of Ichkeria Aslan Maskhadov.
As investigators were assured by numerous witnesses, during the first Chechen campaign, Lena walked with her head held high and a sniper rifle at the ready. About that combat period of her life, about which she does not want to talk about anything, the only documentary evidence has been preserved. A red book with a photograph and her real name. Next to Basayev's signature is a modest position - a nurse. During the investigation and trial, Lena did not hide the fact that in March 1995 she joined a detachment in Argun, field commander Abdul Khadzhiev-Aslambek. Although she was listed there only as a nurse, in fact she did everything that they would say: she washed, cooked, and sometimes, out of old memory, appeased the bearded freedom fighters. However, she did not stay long in Abdul's detachment.

"If only you were alive"

The end of the 95th. Bloody raid of Salman Raduev's gang on Kizlyar and Pervomaiskoye. For two weeks the whole country did not leave the television screens, watching the development of dramatic events. Capturing the helipad. Shooting people. A swift "visit" to the hospital, which almost ended with a repetition of Budyonnovsk. Solemn departure to Pervomaiskoye in a convoy of buses along with the captured hostages. And, finally, the mysterious disappearance from the village, which was practically demolished by artillery from the face of the earth and surrounded by Russian troops in a triple ring. Among several women who participated in that famous Radevsky campaign was Lena.
This fact became known only after the arrest of Salman Raduev himself. An interesting document was found in his archives, in which he asked the head of the Oktyabrsky district of Grozny to allocate a two-room apartment for Elena P. "as an active participant in the hostilities in Kizlyar and Pervomaisky." She got an apartment. Then she met Musa Charaev. "Wolf" and "she-wolf" fell in love with each other - and this was true in the legend about Lolita.
“There was a war,” Lena continues. - Musa and his guys hid in the mountains, and rarely came to Ishcherskaya (a large border junction station, where militants sometimes lay in bed after being wounded. - E.M.). I spoke Chechen very well. My mother-in-law immediately somehow accepted me and even fell in love - she became like a mother. She prayed all the time. Looking at her, I also converted to Islam. And soon a mullah married Musa and me.
Having arranged her personal life, Lena finally called her parents in Konstantinovka. Her mother, who had known nothing at all about her for several years, fainted when she heard her voice. "If only you were alive," she said, and burst into tears. After this call, she began to drink with her father. And six months later, in the summer of 1996, the whole family was poisoned by mushrooms bought at the market. Father and brother were pumped out by doctors. Lena saw her mother already in the coffin. As an active militant and the wife of a field commander, Lolita got into all operational reports. And she immediately received new documents. "To pull less," explains Lena. According to them, she came home for the funeral. After the war, a son was born in the fighting family of the Charaevs. Musa still did not part with the machine gun and his fighters, guarding the piece of the oil pipeline entrusted to him. Lena was given a solid position in customs. “I cleared goods through customs, processed papers, took money to Grozny. Nothing special,” Lena is obviously modest, because the treasury will not be trusted to just anyone. But Lena was valued not for this - she checked freight and passenger trains, looking for "FSB agents" in them. If a person seemed suspicious to her, he was removed from the train and taken away in an unknown direction. "She-wolf", - peaceful villagers were afraid of her. "Our she-wolf! The commander was lucky," the former militants approved. In March 1999, Musa was killed. He was found in his own car, not far from the "pipe", with the same machine gun in his hands and two dozen bullets in his back and neck. He never found out that Lena was pregnant again - she wanted to please him the next day.
By order No. 101 of the President of the CRI, Maskhadov, Charaev was posthumously awarded the rank of brigadier general and renamed his native village of Severnaya in the Naur region - the very one where he plowed the land for so long - into Musa-yurt. It turns out that the legend did not lie again.

Fake calculation

Baltic women, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Siberians, Urals, Leningraders, Muscovites and, of course, the Chechens themselves—there is no end to the terrible stories about ruthless mercenary snipers who have been roaming the trenches, hospitals and newspaper pages for many years now. True, it is worth noting that the militants themselves are afraid of some fantastic Ossetian women who terribly hate them, allegedly fighting on the Russian side. The most persistent myth about "white tights" is that most of them are biathletes, and from the Baltics. If we put together all the stories about blond beauties who speak Russian with a pleasant light accent and shoot at our soldiers, it turns out that not a single athlete who has ever held a weapon in her hands has long been left there - or has already been killed, or still fighting. However, in the first Chechen war, our law enforcement agencies still tried to check one chilling story about a Baltic sniper dropped by wounded paratroopers from a helicopter with a grenade into her vagina. officers. Maybe some girl fell, reaching for a cigarette, from a Russian "turntable", only the corpse was never found. As they did not find any traces of a biathlete by the name of Trankautene in the Baltic republics ... The very name "white tights" came from a white leotard, tight-fitting hips, in which biathletes perform at competitions. Before Chechnya, they flashed in almost all the "hot spots" of the former Soviet Union, from Transnistria to Nagorno-Karabakh. However, then the stories about the mercenaries caused only surprise among the military. And the snipers themselves could be counted on the fingers. Chechnya is another matter. Here is a big war and, accordingly, completely different money. In most cases, the Chechens entered into a contract with the newcomer for a month. According to the captured militants, before the crisis, snipers were paid up to 10,000 dollars. Sometimes they paid "without exception" from 500 to 800 bucks "unfastened" for a killed officer and 200 for a soldier. However, such fees were more likely to lure new mercenaries than actually pay them - either the dollars turn out to be fake, or the field commander will consider that the lady wants too much and it’s cheaper to just kill her. But all the same: in half a year in Chechnya - unless, of course, the feds caught it or sewed their own militants - one could earn for the rest of his life. "Fatima - 170 thousand rubles, Oksana - 150 thousand, Lena - 30 (for two killed scouts)" - this "pay slip" was found in the pocket of a killed sniper near the village of Bechik.

sniper war

It's only in cheap movies that the sniper works alone. In the worst case, he has one assistant - and he will provide cover and count the dead. In the best and most common in Chechnya - "an ambush hunter" (translated from English. - E.M.), a couple of submachine gunners, a machine gunner, grenade launchers and an ammunition carrier cover. By the way, the role of the last member of such a mobile group is generally difficult to overestimate - thanks to him, the militants can "peel" for two hours without a break. "It's better to undereat than not sleep" and "you need to shoot like a waltz: one-two-three - and change position, sitting still is not recommended" - the "golden rules" of every sniper who knows both on that and on that side . Before "lighting up", a good "hunter" prepares 5-8 positions in advance and only then opens fire. "Find and neutralize" an enemy sniper, signalman and senior officers - the combat mission has not changed since the middle of the 18th century, when the first mention of "skirmishers" appeared in archival documents. According to the number of wounds to the head and chest, military doctors dubbed the current war in Chechnya a sniper one. But it begins only when the troops are engaged in positional battles. - Previously, snipers were looked for among professional shooters. It was believed that marksmanship in such work is the most important thing. But lately, especially after Chechnya, we have become convinced that strong nerves and the ability to hide well are still more important, - Colonel Alexander Abin, author of the book "Tactics of using snipers in the city", immediately classified by the FSB, a teacher at the department of tactical and special training, is sure St. Petersburg University of the Ministry of Internal Affairs of the Russian Federation. - A real sniper works primarily with his head - he knows engineering, topography, and medicine. There are few such professionals, and they improve all their lives. Aleksey, a sniper from the elite St. Petersburg special forces, is one of them. "The most self-possessed and calm person, he never conflicts with anyone," they say about him in the detachment.
- To aim, I need 2-3 seconds, a maximum of 10, - says Alexey. “I only worry when I can't see the target. As soon as she is in front of my eyes, I instantly calm down and pull the trigger. A good shot comes between heartbeats, and in women, the heart rate is less frequent. They are lighter, so they shoot better. By and large, biathletes need to be taught only tactics, technique is already disappearing. Athletes are hardy, and without it, nowhere in the mountains. Yes, and they are better armed. They also have SV-94 sniper rifles of 12 mm caliber, and "screw cutters", and the same our SVDshki (Dragunov sniper rifle, the "workhorse" of Russian snipers. - E.M.), only modernized. In addition, all optics are anti-reflective. For now, we can only dream of such weapons.

A lieutenant colonel and an ensign tell how they captured a Lithuanian sniper. How she asked not to kill her. She allegedly has two children.

- They tied a grenade to the head, - says the ensign, - they pulled out the pin and let go. Only cowards flew in different directions.

Dear friends, we offer you a detailed and complete walkthrough of the game Sniper Elite 3. In the new part of this shooter, the developers have put an emphasis on freedom of choice. You will be shown a large and diverse world, where you can use any game styles and tactics.

Mission one: Siege of Tobruk

Our first war will begin in Tobruk - a city that is located in northern Africa, at one time there were fierce battles here. After watching the video, immediately the first task is to kill the snipers that are scattered around. Go outside, sit down under the wall, then destroy the targets, they will be marked with a marker. Next, we are looking for a spotter, after his death, the mortars that interfered with the city were neutralized.

Our next task is a machine gun on a car. Here you will need the "special vision" mode, by turning on this mode, aim at the gas tank or the engine compartment.

Next, you need to neutralize the roadblocks. They are located in the north, be sure to look at the map to get there without any problems. Pass quietly through the gorge, we kill two freaks, and now you can already neutralize the roadblocks. Don't forget that there are 3-4 Germans at each post.

Where you need to go in the end, the game itself will already tell you, showing a video. In the video, the plane will destroy the gorge and the passage that will appear there and will be our new goal.

Mission two: Gaberun

In this task, you will need to hunt for General Valen - a very important bump among the Germans. Carefully and accurately remove the first target, then take a comfortable position from which the location of the Germans will be visible. Your target is an officer, there are only two ways to get to him. The first is that the camp is very easily protected from above, and the second is that it is possible to go down, then to the left, and further along the path, find a place where you can work perfectly on targets. Do not forget that you need to search the corpse of an officer.

The ultimate goal is a convoy. You can neutralize it by planting mines and shooting at weak points of equipment.

Mission Three: Halfaya Gorge

Since General Valen is not dead yet, we continue to hunt for him, but this time our friends will help us. We move forward, along the way we destroy enemy points and their anti-tank guns, thus helping the advance of the allies. In the first position, be sure to shoot the barrel. Thanks to this maneuver, the first target will be destroyed by one bullet. We move on, passing all the obstacles. The next point will be visible through the hole, the goal is the same - a barrel.

We move on, holding on to the mountains. On the way we will meet a checkpoint and 4 enemy, they must be carefully eliminated, rising even higher, it will be necessary to remove the sentry. From his corpse we take the "beauty - rocket launcher." With the help of such a baby, we destroy the last target, which is located in the gorge. At the end of this task there will be a battle with the tank, so make 4 shots at the weak points of the tank.

Mission Four: Fort Rufigio

In this mission, our colleague is captured, so we need to free him. This is a normal stealth mission. There are a lot of Freaks, so going into battle with them is just crazy. Therefore, we practice in covert penetration into the enemy base.

Our goal is the fort. All the guards that we come across along the way can be killed in hand-to-hand combat, thereby not making a fuss. You need to enter the fort on the left, we kill the first batch of Germans with a grenade. We keep the path to the tower, do not forget about the guard in the room on the right, he needs to be searched. You need to move to the tower, which is farthest from all the others. Having risen upstairs, we open the chamber, while the comrade-in-arms leaves, we provide him with cover.

Mission Five: Siwa Oasis

We go to a small town, which is cut off from the whole world. We are looking for a convenient hill in the center - this will allow us to conduct convenient observation. Next, we descend into an ingenious web of moves, along the way we kill freaks. Going upstairs, you will immediately notice three German officers, they need to be marked. When we determine the main goal, we observe the officer from binoculars. We must wait for the moment. When the officer receives a pack of documents, after that you can safely “remove” him. After looking at his corpse, we go to pick up the documents. From the corpse of the German we go to the right, we compare the tank with a pile of metal and meet with the allies.

Mission Six: Kasserine Pass

Here our goal is the military base of General Valen, we need, as always, very important documents. You can get to it through a narrow gorge, but first you need to fill up a couple of enemies. Climb up, and at the top you will see three roadblocks. At each post there will be a barrel of explosives, I think everyone understands what needs to be done with it. We move further forward to the headquarters. Clearly, documents are stored here that need to be picked up, but there is a problem, they are in a safe. You need to find an officer and find out the codes. When found, be careful on the way back, there will be new freaks. When they dug up the safe, we go to our partner, he is waiting near the mountain. The mountain is the one on which the fire was fired at the beginning of the mission. Sadly, the partner is killed. Next, we destroy the tank and the soldiers who follow him. We bury a friend.

Mission Seven: Pont Du Fa Airfield

We start our way to the barracks, after the barracks we go to the bunker, we need to open the gate. We bring down all the enemies, in this task they can no longer call for help, move forward, take the documents found and, of course, free the allies.

We move back to the beginning of the game. We pass the fences and take a firing position a little higher. We are engaged in covering the allies who came under fire from the enemy. In the final, as always, we destroy tanks, a couple of machine-gun points and then run to the hangar, where the final comes in the form of a truck exit.

Mission Eight: Ratte Plant

Our target, General Valen, has settled at this plant. We move along the gorge, killing all the Nazis on our way. Having reached the premises, we kill the opponents who were inside, we pass along the iron "bridge" to the other side of this gorge. Here we begin cleaning the hangar, go further and destroy the first electric unit.

We go down using the elevator, the new task is to lay five detonators. We start walking along the left edge and immediately put two installations. We return to the elevator, there are guards, we kill them, having risen higher, we put the 4th and 5th installation. Again, run down, to the right to the tank, up the stairs and put the last installation. On the street you need to destroy the last batch of Germans.

After killing everyone, we go to the top of the mountain, where we activate the explosives. A big bang, the plant was destroyed, congratulations on the passed game, thanks and other honors.