Hero sniper kills ISIS fighter from TWO MILES away in longest confirmed kill shot EVER
A NEW kill record has been set by a sniper who took out an ISIS fighter from two miles away.
A Canadian soldier dispatched the Islamic State (ISIS) fanatic from a whopping 2.14 miles away - the longest distance for a confirmed kill.
The sniper fired the bullet from a McMillan TAC-50 rifle while stationed in a high-rise tower in Iraq.
Fired from 11,319 feet high, it took the bullet 10 seconds to reach its target.
The ISIS fighter was taken out as they launched an attack on a group of Iraqi soldiers.
Soldiers at front-line positions, alongside the Kurdish Peshmerga forces, came under heavy mortar and machine gun fire.
Brigadier General Michael Rouleau said the troops only fired back in self defence.
The Canadian's brief was to ‘neutralise’ the target without any additional casualties.
He is said to be part of Joint Task Force 2, an operation training Kurdish fighters against ISIS.
For security reasons the sniper has not been named, or the exact location of the kill revealed.
Responsible for training the Iraqi military, Gen Rouleau, said: “My troops had completed a planning session with senior Iraqi leaders several kilometres behind the front lines.”
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Details are scant about their operation, but their last known location was north of Iraq, where a battle for Mosul is underway.
The feat of precision smashes the previous record set by Briton Craig Harrison, who dispatched a Taliban soldier some 1.54 miles away.
Set in 2009 with a 338 Lapua Magnum, he fired it from a height of 8,120 feet.
My troops had completed a planning session
The kill was verified by a video, a source said, saying: “This is an incredible feat. It is a world record that might never be equalled.”
The third longest-record stands at 1.51 miles, and was set by another Canadian, Corporal Rob Furlong.
He shot an Afghani insurgent from a height of 7,972 feet during Operation Anaconda in 2002.
Canadian special forces are renowned throughout the world, and their snipers are among the best of the best.
The US snipers' kill record is 1.42 miles, and was set by Bryan Kremer in 2004.
He took out an Iraqi insurgent from 7,546 feet with his Barrett M82A1 rifle.
Last month British SAS sniper shot dead an ISIS fighter from 1.50 miles away, from a height of 7,920 feet.
It took three seconds to reach its target.
He used a CheyTac M200 Intervention gun, regarded as the most powerful in the world, and has a working range of up to 9,842 feet and holds the record for the world's longest shot.
Fighting has raged in the former ISIS strongholds of Syria and Iraq for years, as coalition force seek to crush the waning group.
Earlier this week the barbarians blew up a historic mosque in Mosul, Iraq, from where they first declared their caliphate.
The leaning al-Hadba minaret, which had stood there for the past 850 years, was obliterated by retreating ISIS forces.