{"id":63295,"date":"2015-12-14T13:12:59","date_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:12:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=63295"},"modified":"2015-12-14T13:23:14","modified_gmt":"2015-12-14T18:23:14","slug":"sas-sniper-conserves-ammo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63295","title":{"rendered":"SAS sniper conserves ammo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us link from the UK&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.express.co.uk\/news\/world\/626351\/Hero-SAS-sniper-foils-terror-attack-by-killing-five-extremists-with-just-THREE-bullets\">Express <\/a>comes the story of an experienced SAS sniper who took out five ISIS cowards who planned to detonate their suicide vests in a crowd of civilians near Mosul, Iraq with just three rounds;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The sniper shot the first jihadi in the chest, detonating his explosive device and killing him instantly, along with two ISIS guards sat in a nearby car. <\/p>\n<p>The second terrorist was killed with a headshot, as he and the third man tried desperately to get back into the locked factory. <\/p>\n<p>The third jihadi also died when his explosive vest was set off by a third and final well-aimed shot from the colour sergeant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>According to the Express, the SAS sniper had been observing the bomb factory for weeks prior to the sucessful operation. The article also mentions that the targets were eliminated at about  range of 800 meters. the article doesn&#8217;t mention the type of rifle, but I&#8217;m guessing that it was the L115A3 in .338 Lapua Magnum which has been in service with the SAS since 2008.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bobo sends us link from the UK&#8217;s Express comes the story of an experienced SAS sniper &hellip; <a title=\"SAS sniper conserves ammo\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=63295\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">SAS sniper conserves ammo<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":61566,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-63295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-terror-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=63295"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63295\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/61566"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}