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Old October 18th, 2015, 01:33 PM

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Default Re: Germany OOB 16: miscellaneous comments

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Originally Posted by DRG View Post
notice they claim the Vgren coy HQ included a sniper group of six men.
Yes, I have been pondering for a while about how that would have worked in practice.

Especially interesting is the idea that they were to be armed with semi-automatic G43 rifles (with telescopic scopes), rather than bolt action sniper rifles. There certainly was quite a number of G43 with telescopic sights produced historically - though I am left wondering what was the level of marksmanship achieved by the men they were issued to.
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