On September 1, 1939, Nazi Germany launched their invasion into Poland marking the beginning of World War II. Among those ...

The Soviet soldier never saw him. Neither did the one after that, or the next, or the hundreds who followed. Simo Häyhä killed more enemy combatants than any sniper in recorded military history, and ...

Not much is known about Ivan Ivanovich Larkin. However, in the 10 years preceding WWII, the Soviet Union uniquely established specialized sniper units. The high level of proficiency of these Soviet ...

Roza Shanina was a 20-year-old girl, having worked in a kindergarten to make ends meet and support herself through school. When the Nazis invaded the Soviet Union, leading to her brothers' deaths, she ...

As soon as the sniper entered the battlefield in World War II, warfare changed forever. The idea that a single soldier could hold back entire military units out of fear of being shot by an unseen ...

WW2 introduced rugged telescopic scopes that held zero after repeated firing and withstood battlefield conditions. Standardized match-grade barrels and quality ammunition made precision reproducible ...