SAS sniper 'shot ISIS militant from 1.5 miles away' using world's most powerful rifle
A BRITISH special forces sniper shot dead an Islamic State jihadi from almost 1.5 miles away using the world's most powerful rifles, according to reports.
A British SAS sniper shoots an ISIS jihadi to death from 1.5 miles away
The SAS sniper reached his jihadi target in three seconds, using the CheyTac M200 Intervention gun, which holds the record for the world’s longest shot.
Priced at an astonishing £10,500 ($13,800), the rifle produced is only produced in California.
A source told the Star on Sunday: “It was a classic counter-sniper operation. The ISIS gunman was moving all the time to get into the best position to get a kill.
“It was like a game of cat-and-mouse and at one point the SAS almost gave up, believing that the terrorist had gone to ground.
“Just as the light was beginning to fade the gunman moved into what he thought was a safe location and lifted his rifle up into his shoulder before the SAS shot him dead.”
It was like a game of cat-and-mouse
The incidentally reportedly took place two weeks ago in Iraq's war-torn city of Mosul as the jihadi was leaving a burned-out building.
Noticing the nonconformist militant, the gunman reportedly pulled the trigger to shoot the terrorist. The incident is now logged in the sniper's books as his "most difficult kill", reports have claimed.
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The dead jihadi was reportedly a sniper himself, and had gunned down one of his comrades shortly before he himself was killed, the Daily Mail reports.
The British sniper witnessed the jihadi shoot his counterpart and decided to lay low for an hour before opening fire.
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The news comes amid claims that the terror network are designing a new range of hi-tech explosives.
Their bomb project which was based in the now destroyed Mosul University, featured plans to create explosives that can pass through airport scanner’s undetected.
Conflict Armament Research (CAR), a conflict group, previously said that ISIS were in the process of "promoting the development of “own-brand weapons" to provide its insurgents with otherwise unavailable armaments.