Abingdonboy
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I have great respect for snipers and i had the pleasure of meeting a sniper once.I asked him many questions specially about the training and how tough it is...He like many others didnt share a lot of details but told me that we have a sniper school which was surprising for me coz not many people know about it...cant tell you the exact location though but its located in central India and the training is very tough..he said that a lot of people are unsuccesful which is similar to 80%.
The thing is these guys are really smart and know how to avoid questions.I have done my schooling from a military school and had access to all the Army/AF/Navy magazines in our school library..so once in the library while checking out the "sainik samachar" magazine i saw a picture of a US instructor training Indian snipers somewhere in central India and i knew that there are some excercises specially for snipers which doesnt get reported in the media...Now when i asked him about this he is like "No i havent ever seen a foreigner in my life" even when i knew he was comming from Sniper school of the IA which was having some foreigners(cant tell their nationality).
Most of the things are kept secret man..like we were having a chat that day about the IAF.
Anyways,if its in the interest of our nation then we shouldnt complain.
Cool info man. Yeah I knew there was an IA Sniper school. Something cool I recently learned from a friend was that the IN has been training up aircrew (not the pilots but the guys who operate the winch or MGs) to act as airborne snipers on helos. Apparently this is something that the IN felt needed after deployments in the Gulf. Apparently these guys have got brand new state of the art rifles from abroad and are being trained by IN SFs. And apparently there have been a number of sniper ranges set up purely for hese guys around india but he best one is the one in A&N! My friend didn't tell me what rifle it was though as he didn't know himself.
Still good to know.