A man, a gun, quietly lurking, finding the right fighter, aiming at the target, killing with one shot - this is the sniper, known as the "harvester of life" of infantry and enemy commanders, the "terminator" on the battlefield. Throughout the history of human warfare, the names of the following snipers are enough to go down in history.
1. Simon Haye (Finland)
Known as the "White Death," he sniped 542 people in four months during the 1939 Soviet-Finnish War, in addition to nearly 200 with light machine guns. The Soviets sent two anti-sniper teams, both of which he killed. You know, these group members were strictly selected by the Soviet army. On March 6, 1940, he was hit in the head, and he came back to life without half a head, and the war ended on that day.
2. Ivan Sárenko (former Soviet Union)
One of the top Soviet snipers in World War II, sniping more than 500 people. Someone once described him this way: When Sarenko's sniper scope is aimed at you for a moment, it is futile to do anything but wait for death...
3. Matthias Heizanoor (Germany)
During World War II, the "gun king" in the German army, the ghost of the dead who fell under his sniper rifle, reached 345 people, and the longest sniper distance reached 1000 meters. He once said: "The measure of a sniper's success is not how many people he shoots, but how much influence he can have on the enemy." ”
4. Nikolai Yakrivich Ealing (former Soviet Union)
An extremely mysterious sniper who never showed his face. He snipeed 494 people in the Great Patriotic War of the Soviet Union. In the historical data we know, except for a cold number of people who shot and killed, nothing else is known, it is a mystery, he seems to have evaporated from the human world.
5. Carlos Hayscoek (USA)
He had a nice nickname — "White Feathers." He sniped 93 people during the Vietnam Campaign, or more than 300 if you count the more than 300 who were not confirmed. To the world's astonishment, his highest shooting record was 2250 meters.
6. Vasily Zaitsev (former Soviet Union)
A sniper who specialized in snipers sniped 225 and 11 snipers in the Battle of Stalingrad, including the headmaster of the most famous German sniper school, The King of Snipers, Konings. The "Six-Man Hunting Squad" sniper combat plan created by him is still in use today.
7. Cornings (Germany)
The king of snipers in the German army, the principal of the Berlin sniper school, and the prototype of the same name in the movie "Soldiers In the City", he has trained many excellent snipers for the German army. He was known to his subordinates as the "Teacher of Death".
8. Chuck Maweeney (USA)
The real "cold-blooded killer" was basically killed by one shot, and did not even have the opportunity to rescue him, and in the US war against Vietnam, he sniped and killed 319 enemies. For the Vietnamese army, what is more terrifying than death is that they do not know when they will die...
9. Lyudmila M. Pavlitchenko (former Soviet Union)
The famous "Sniper Queen", in the two defensive battles of Odessa and Sevastopol, snipeed 309 German troops, and more terrifyingly, included 36 snipers. "When beauty looks at you with a scope, it's not that you're attracted to your handsomeness, but that you've been called by God!"
10、 Zhang Taofang (China)
Chinese minist of the Volunteer Army, the first place in the record for single-handed killings on the Korean battlefield, and in the Battle of Shangganling, he sniped 214 enemies with 436 rounds of ammunition. What we want to emphasize is that he used an old Soviet rifle without any optical sighting equipment, and the sniper strength was unpredictable, which was the most frightening to the enemy.