Unique ammo key to Ukrainian sniper making longest shot in history 

Some cool info: The rifle uses a new cartridge. 12.7x114. 12.7 is the metric equivalent to the .50 Cal. They wanted to increase the range of the rifle, so they looked at the 14.5mm round. That round is made for anti material ONLY, so it has no precision rounds in its caliber. .50 BMG however does have precision bullets. So, they took the 14.5 casing, which can hold 50% more powder than a standard .50 BMG case, and necked it down onto the .50 precision projectile. They basically added NOS to the .50 BMG. Add in the barrel length, which is 2-4 inches MORE than a standard Barret .50 cal, and you get a high velocity heavy round.

Jonathan Ferguson the keeper of firearms and artillery at royal armouries museum in the UK, which houses a collection of thousands of iconic weapons from throughout history.

A factual, calm, analysis of a very very pragmatic case/bullet choice/design, thank you Jonothan.

Distance is a suppressor in and of itself. So whilst the projectile is still breaking the speed of sound, they are highly unlikely to have heard the muzzle report at the claimed 3800 metres. Probably had a few goes at them, and they never knew what was happening until it was too late.

If I remember the report that this sniper fired, he made the hit on his third attempt. He said he got relatively close the first two times and the person did seem to take notice that something was occurring but he didn't recognize what it was.

At 3800 meters, it is extremely unlikely that the targets ever understood they were hearing someone shooting at them, specifically - it would have sounded like background noise.

here in Croatia we have developed RT-20(rt means ručni top/hand cannon) anti material rifle which fires anti aircraft Hispano 20mm rounds. and it can fire at 2000m distances

Skills will get you in the ballpark but a shot at this range requires a lot of luck.

Is the sniper related to the ghost of Kiev?

Quite something if true. And a lot of other kit needed - spotting scope, laser range finder, wind and air temp measurement, calculation tables for coreolis and spin drift. You'd expect to have to put a couple of sighters at least down range before achieving a hit.

I agree with the commentator on some points but as a competitive long range full bore shooter, you dont want a light projectile - it looses its energy quickly & gets blown around by any external forces. A big, heavy, fast moving boat tailed spitzer is the most efficient for long range accurate shooting.

Part of me is sad to hear that a Canadian lost the record. Then again, there's no shame in being second-best when it's for a good cause. What surprises me the most is that rifle doesn't look all that fancy. But if it works, it works!

Interesting as far as it goes, but it ignores the biggest factors affecting long-range accuracy: Wind and mirage. They play a role no matter how great the ballistics, the scope and the rifle. Another crucial factor is point of impact from a cold barrel. It always changes at least slightly as the barrel warms with firing, so Joe Sniper has to know where and how much. At such long range the difference will be considerable. I realize we don’t know the circumstances of the shot. I also wonder about barrel life. Throat erosion is likely to be severe with a cartridge like this. How many rounds before accuracy suffers? I’d love to know.

Longest shot? I think you mean longest kill.

Records are made to be broken. Fact of life , not limited to sports.

It has a Bartlien barrel same as AI uses which is premium. It also used machined solid brass bullets and stiletto AP rounds. very slow stick powder is now being used. I’ve been told that its original loads were very low pressure relative to case due to powders and bullet constraints. It can hit 3400 fps or 3300 depending on bullet weight. Glass used was Atacr 7-35x, Tangent Theta or Zero Compromise are also used. All three above have been used and are preferred by UA snipers.

I respect a country defending itself so don’t take this the wrong way, but I highly doubt this actually happened. Just like ghost of Kiev, they have to tell stories to keep morale high.

I thought this was the infamous Alligator rifle at first. Certainly very similar in appearance and application.

Actually open your clock app or find a clock with a second hand and watch how long 9 seconds is. Actually do it, because most people count seconds quite a bit faster than they actually pass. 9 seconds is how long it took for the bullet to travel from the muzzle to the target. That's such a long time in relation to the kinds of velocities bullets travel at. 2.3 miles, 3800 meters. No wonder the shooter stepped forward to claim his shot. Even with a high skill level, nailing that shot in one was a borderline miracle lol.

1:27 it's the Eargesplitten Loudenboomer

So no proof this shot actually hit the target.

Yeah...This is probably as legit as "The Ghost of Kiev" pilot.

I believe Ukraine because Ukraine has no reason to lie to gain support

You would need to be shooting at a very high arc to allow the projectile to travel for 9 seconds. Gravity is the same for a projectile in flight and if you dropped it. If I fire a projectile flat and dropped one at the same time at the same height to the ground they would both hit the ground at the same time. 9 seconds in flight is more than twice the time of a punted football and look at the arc on a football. Mathematically it is very hard to believe a bullet is in flight for 9 seconds and is accurate.

I want you to go on YT to search through top long range competitions. Just watch a few that explains things and youll quickly see that this guy is talking out of his ass and how moronic it is to believe he made that shot. They have scopes now that can give you a trajectory but at 3000 meters you're out of its range for accuracy, theres too much that you cant account for and id like to know what kinda range finder they were using that would give you an accurate range, id like to know what engineers that were behind him doing the insane calculations to even get it close to that soldier... this is literally impossible

Remember that suppressors can add velocity.

Fake af

Flat earth people can't shoot with this gun 😂😂😂

There is still no evidence this shot ever occurred, it is still an unverified claim.

Ukrainian weapons superb!

Very interesting that, although the shooter is right handed, the bolt is on the left hand side. I suppose that means he doesn't lose the sight picture as he reloads.

It was the ghost of Kiev reporting that shot in between shooting down 10 Russian jets a day…🤦‍♂️

JTF2 had held the record for some years now. Congratulations to the Ghost. I wonder what the receiver is made of and how heavy it is overall.

It doesn't seem like this would be a useful gun for a sniper to have, the big fireball leaving the gun is a dead giveaway of your location

Very interesting. More Jonathan Ferguson please.

Nanomachines SON!!

That is a hell of a gun. I bet I gives some backlash.

I wonder if the Ghost of Keiv made this shot?

If BBC / SUN reported it, it'd definately be called a game changer. 😂

Almost as impressive as the “Ghost of Kiev”

Propaganda,

Wildcat means the cartridge design has not been registered at SAAMI.

At that point, the dude is basically shooting a shoulder mounted mini artillery round

Legend has it, after this, the entire Russian army reinforced every soldier with extra plastic in their helmets and body armor xD

Jonathan, the UK's Gun Jesus.

Shot was fired by the Ghost of Kiev

I have no evidence, but it honestly just felt like propaganda when it was announced. The video isn't even proof as it can be time stretched and use frame interleaving (which AI does incredibly well now, it's built into the top editors like Resolve and Premiere). Let's see it repeated in controlled conditions, even with 3 or 4 wind meters along the path. I had to laugh at the 45mm spread on 200m grouping, that is appalling for super high precision shooting, Hell, air rifles can do 1" at 100m with a decent shooter, just watch some vids. At upto about 50m with my own (sub 12ft/lb air rifle) I mostly expect to keyhole groups with the odd flyer as I don't use precision/match pellets.

I did some napkin math on this shortly after the claim was made... A 0.1 of a mph error in wind estimation would have been a miss and 1 mph was something like 20 feet.... They had a 4% probability of making a hit and funny enough I did all the calculations using the 750gr 50bmg with 3,000 fps as it's velocity The skill was knowing what math he needed to get in the ball park... The rest was pure unadulterated luck... I still have doubts that it was first round regardless of what the military report says simply due to the propaganda factor...

WHOA ! 6 CM = 2.4 inches!! At 200 meters ! Absolutely TERRIBLE. .75 moa = 3/4 inch Read the ruler. 1 bullet hole diameter is 1 cm, .4 inch

One problem with fielding this type of 'mega rifle' is that modern technology has made them obsolete. FPV drones have re-written battlefield tactics. I don't know the actual weight of this particular rifle, but it's overall size and bulkiness would be a burden on the individual sniper to transport it up to the front lines for deployment against enemy personnel. The claimed 3800 meter kill shot is well within range of even the smallest FPV drone equipped with an explosive charge and they can be launched clandestinely without a large signature report and they have become very affordable. Standard sniping platforms are still very useful on the modern battlefield (especially when equipped with thermal optics) that can create a tactical advantage for both offensive and defensive applications.

Yeah, yeah. Ghost sniper of Kiev.

This is what you get, when civilian competition shooters are forced to enter a combat zone. The modern military complex is not capable of producing this kind of "innovation" due to its procurement system and strict regulations. In the civilian world generational cycles are much, much shorter and thus the evolution infinitely more rapid. With the conflict in Ukraine one meets the other.

Another case of worlds #1 elite armed forces super soldiering being carried out by its regular troop being reported on this front again. WOW.. who needs tactical operations and special forces Corp in today's armies.

Hey thats Jonathan Ferguson, keeper of firearms and artillery at the royal armory museum in the UK whitch houses a collection of iconic weapons from throughout history.

Theres scopes that can give you better quality of shots but by the nature of how scopes are you will never be able to get an accurate crosshair at that distance. This is all lies a propaganda. I remember them doing a story on an old farmer taking down an attack helicopter with his shotgun hahaha kid you not.

"Get that Slav a cannon. Slavs love cannons." - Alucard

Extremely expensive guns ammo and optics supplied by the American taxpayer

Those are not A-max bullets, this is clearly A-tip. their flagship alluminium tipped match bullets

Some more useful information for the Russians to adopt..seems to be a lot of RU-vid contributors willing to help them!

The shooter in the video is not a sniper, or at least he is not a well trained sniper. His thumb is wrapped around the pistol grip and his spine is way off line to mention but a few things he is doing that need to be improved to make him a good, consistent shooter.

Then don’t zoom in on the pink. But there’s NO REASON not to show what war really is.

LOL! Propaganda. Prolly the same guy is the ghost of kive fighter pilot lol lol lol lol

I heard this sniper was the brother of the "ghost of Kiev" and an nephew of the dood who took down the Russian helicopter gunship with birdshot......

At a mile is almost impossible to hit a target. Double it and add a half a mile......wtf

The man said suppressors help with recoil😂 🤡

Bullflighttime 3 sec 😂😂😂 This is never ever a shoot about this distance.

The Guy says this is not a big game changer for the Ukrainian Battlefield; however, this sniper rifle has twice the effective range of all the Russian Sniper Rifles. So we need to ask, what are the means of countering Snipers on the Battlefield? You fight Snipers with your own Snipers, if their Rifles can reach, or by calling in Artillery strikes on the sniper's position. But this Ukranian Rifle is outside any squad's tactical mortar range, meaning that they would need to call in Air Support or Howitzers just to counter some Rifleman. But imagine just 10 such Sniper Rifles on a ridge looking over a Russian Battalion. It'd be a Panic. They'd be 'pinned down', having to make Life or Death choices to do anything that requires stepping away from Cover. But, historically, no Army has ever fully utilized Snipers, and this because nobody wants to escalate with Snipers. So we've seen General Commands from both Sides coming to agreements on limiting deployment of Snipers, which I suppose is because neither side wants their Officers to be shot dead while in their Camps. Ukranians are famous Anarchists and so maybe they don't even have Officers they worry about. Oh, there is also the problem of how Snipers can not just Surrender like everybody else, once they find themselves in a terminally losing situation, because they'd be mutilated to death.

Mustache made Lillith from cheers sound good.

Can we neglect the coriolis-effect while shooting in East-West or West-East direction ??

As the commentator rightly pointed out, this had to be a lucky shot. No doubt Russian snipers get these lucky shots every now and then. And as the commentator again rightly pointed out, "this is not a game changer", for either side.

Seems like classic ukrainian nato propaganda.

New evidence shows that the other soldier died from covid.

The target would go down before anyone heard the shot.

Take away all of the misery, human life loss etc. etc. isn't it interesting watching the modern day battlefield in terms of innovation 👍

Considering the sophistication of modern weapons, the odds of surviving a battle must be very small. This makes war unaffordable. After all you can mass produce weapons much faster than you can train soldiers. The paradigm of troops vs troops is obsolete. The next big war will probably cyberwarfare. Heavan help us all because NOBODY has a clue how that would turn out.

Nein, diese Distanz ist eher nicht möglich zu treffen... Glaube ich nicht..! Ich schieße Longe Range, weit über einen km... selbst mit diesem Kaliber ist das superextrem schwierig... müsste absolut kein Wind sein, was es fast NIE gibt... Ich glaube das niemals .... 😂😂😂👎

You WOULDN'T HEAR IT COMING. The bullet travels faster than the speed of sound. That's why you don't hear the sonic boom until the jet is gone.

At these kinds of distances it is nothing more than pure luck! The riflescopes cannot even give a good picture of the target at these distances, not to mention any corrections that need to be made due to the wind position of the sun and possible mirrage and the spotter will also need to have very good equipment. I have more of the idea that this is a propaganda story to support the moral.

Key word. CLAIM!

awesome and professional comment

I'm pretty sure that shot was made from the right side of Dnipro river to the pedorushkas positions on a left side. Distance is legit.

Just a bit of top trumps really

2 world sniper records set with that shot. The guy who made the shot for the longest shot ever And the guy who got shot for being the receiver of the longest shot ever.

surprised theyve not made an electric magnetic sniper rifle yet cant see why that shouldnt work

whole gun is just a barrel

What is more or less a new precision version of Raufoss round is under development, based on the profile of the same Hornady A-Max projectiles. Rounds are made from forged rods of an alloy of alumina bronze, then individually machined, IIRC. There have been challenges making these rounds as accurate due to the variations in weight caused by the explosive fill. Projectile is basically three components, the projectile body, the explosive fill (compressed pellet, thermo-molded) and the aerodynamic tip/initiator (various hardened metals have been tested, including DU, carbide, aluminum). Every time one of the components changes, the balance of the round changes, and everything else has to be tweaked. Unlikely that these rounds will ever match the precision of the current rounds, but will offer enough precision (and oomph) be increase the anti-materiel capability.

This would make an awesome weapons system if coupled with an AI sighting and shooting apparatus.

He used the magic bullet

Very informative

Wonder what tthe muzzle velociy is?

Any good sniper won't be insulted by your mention of the luck factor!

Gaaaay. Show the footage

Oh my word, that round hitting personnel. I think the environment helped set this up. Still, what a insane shot!

You would want a rubber but pad on the stock, it would kick like a mule.

NORMA ammunition must have been involved in this. 🧐

One of the most important things to avoid recoil affecting accuracy is having the center of gravity of the whole thing be as close as possible to the center of the bore. With artillery pieces this is achieved by having the whole barrel slide freely backwards until the projectile exits the barrel, at which point the hydraulic dampers start to slow down the barrel. With a rifle that's not a practical option, though apparently it's been tried. The alternative is to make sure everything attached to the barrel is balanced in such a way that as the barrel is accelerated backwards there are no lateral moments exerted on it. This ensures that to the greatest extent possible the barrel moves only backwards along its axis in the recoil. Something that surprises me in this respect is how often sniper rifles seem to lack this balance, though of course it may be just a visual thing as it is not really that easy to estimate the balance of something by just looking at it. This particular rifle though does look very balanced in that respect, even visually. Another thing which helps a lot is a smooth bore as opposed to a rifled one as spinning up the bullet causes a twisting rotation in the opposite direction in the barrel which also interacts with the various attachments to the barrel in a rather unpredictable way inducing small but significant lateral motions.

Suppressors are worse for recoil than a muzzle brake. Shooting that far I wouldn’t worry about muzzle flash…

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1:20 22 Eargesplitten Loudenboomer

Erm, you can fully serpress the sound of a round like that, company in the US does it, they did it with the 50 cal when everyone said that couldn't be done either