{"id":55252,"date":"2024-03-22T21:14:31","date_gmt":"2024-03-22T20:14:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/?p=55252"},"modified":"2026-03-22T00:13:24","modified_gmt":"2026-03-21T23:13:24","slug":"a-spectacular-video-of-spanish-soldiers-training-as-precision-shooters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2024\/03\/22\/a-spectacular-video-of-spanish-soldiers-training-as-precision-shooters\/","title":{"rendered":"A spectacular video of Spanish soldiers training as precision shooters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpshooters are among the best-trained soldiers in an army, due to the complex and risky nature of their missions.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p><rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2023\/06\/05\/the-spanish-army-achieves-the-first-two-places-in-a-nato-sniper-contest\/\">The Spanish Army achieves the first two places in a NATO sniper contest<\/a><\/rel><br \/>\n<rel><a href=\"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/2022\/12\/30\/val-de-diestro-this-is-the-shooting-range-of-the-spanish-armys-precision-shooters\/\">Val de Diestro: this is the shooting range of the Spanish Army's precision shooters<\/a><\/rel><\/p>\n<p>These missions not only include elimination of valuable targets or suppression of threats, but also reconnaissance and intelligence work in hostile areas. Their work requires a great capacity for concentration, stealth and patience. The <strong>Spanish Army<\/strong> has published today a spectacular video in which it shows <strong>the training of precision shooters of the \"Almog\u00e1vares\" VI Parachute Brigade (BRIPAC):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Brigada &quot;Almog\u00e1vares&quot; #paracaidistas, proceso de instrucci\u00f3n de sus TIRADORES DE PRECISI\u00d3N.\" width=\"665\" height=\"374\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ewayIMJf4GY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>You can see here some screenshots of the video with some notes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53604666085_222db52a2a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A shooter with his Barrett M-95 precision rifle<\/strong>. It is a very powerful 12.7x99 NATO caliber weapon, with a lethal range of up to 1,800 meters and anti-material capability.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53604666095_a3a0706e3a_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>In the video we see a stalking exercise<\/strong>, with the soldiers slowly crawling on the ground to reach their shooting position without being seen, for which they are <strong>camouflaged with ghillie suits<\/strong> like the one we see in this image.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53604543649_42c80034f5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A shooter aiming his Barrett M-95<\/strong>. This soldier wears a camouflage ghillie suit to mask his position.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/live.staticflickr.com\/65535\/53604203216_b4eea166e5_b.jpg\" style=\"width:100%; height:auto; border:0px;\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>A shooter aiming his Barrett M-95 from inside a building.<\/strong> To avoid being detected, these types of shots are fired from the inside, at a distance from the window, to take advantage of shadow coverage. of the enclosure. In this case the shooter rests his M95 on a tripod.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sharpshooters are among the best-trained soldiers in an army, due to the complex and risky nature of their missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[19536,11544],"tags":[15706,20795,11462,10557],"class_list":["post-55252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-we-said-yesterday","category-army","tag-barrett-m-95","tag-parachute-brigade-almogavares-vi-bripac","tag-spain","tag-spanish-army"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=55252"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55252\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=55252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=55252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.outono.net\/elentir\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=55252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}