Modern sniper rifles are a cut above their forebears from the Second World War and Cold War. We’re talking about ...

From Reuters: COMBAT OUTPOST PIRTLE-KING, Afghanistan - U.S. Staff-Sergeant Joshua Danison cranes his neck to survey jagged ridges vertical and black above him on the eastern edge of Afghanistan ...

Adopted by the American military in 2005 ... by the U.S. Army and Special Forces in Afghanistan in early 2011. The Mk13 is a bolt-action sniper rifle that recently replaced the Marine Corps ...

He tells Business Insider how elite marksmen in the unit are trained for combat and describes the longest shot he took as a sniper in Afghanistan. He discusses his deployments to Iraq ... the Mystery ...