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Mission: Camouflage
Intelligence:
one of the techniques that snipers rely on heavily is camouflage. There are certain elements that must be remembered when preparing tactical camouflage: movement, outline, color and pattern. The key in slipping undetected past humans and animals is outline and movement. Without conscious thought, our eyes are tuned to immediately draw our attention to movement when trying to discern our surroundings. For that reason, military snipers practice movements such as low crawling, and moving very slowly and deliberately, while making use of shadows and backdrops. It is also best to break up the outline of something, so that it doesn’t look like its actual shape.
Another crucial element of camouflage is outline. A sniper never wants to silhouette himself against the sky by walking along the top of a ridge. He always wants to walk along it half-way down, or at it’s base. If anything, he’ll crawl along through the shadows, very slowly, so as not to be seen. Outline and shadow are significant elements of camouflage and concealment. And this mindset applies not only to wooded areas, but urban settings as well. In M.O.U.T. (Military Operations in Urbanized Terrain) situations snipers will practice such tactical awareness as hanging cloth over windows during the daytime, so that they can see out through the cloth, but no one can see in at them. What the |
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sniper does is hold the muzzle back a few feet from the window, so that neither the barrel, the muzzle, nor the shockwave of the shot can be seen from outside the building.
Camouflage also pertains to sound. Maybe you’ve heard the sniper phrase – “One shot, one kill”. The reason for this is that if you only hear one shot, it’s hard to tell where it came from. If you hear two or three, you can get an audible bearing on where the noise is coming from. In cities and urban environments, to a large extent, this is negated, due to the sound bouncing around among the cement and brick and cement of the buildings. |
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