Turkish Sniper

Turkish sniper scene from the Russian movie of Turetskii Gambit (Turkish Gambit) (2005)

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• Turkish
• Sniper
• Turetskii
• Gambit
• Russian
• War
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• movie

[FASOaga69]

dont mess with the turk

[ssuunniiee]

turkish sniper wouldn't miss for that times. It isn't realistic.

[pancholom]

@sa4ir & @SKAAFive Finally, Turkish artillery fielded Austrian made Gatling machine guns, whilst the Russians didn't field any machine gun at all.

Tus, I wonder: where was the Russian technological advantage you were talking about?

P.S.: I'm not Russian

[pancholom]

@sa4ir & @SKAAFive

Actually, Turkey had the technoligical edge on her side on this war. Both the Martini-Peabody and the Snider (not to mention the Winchester) were better rifles than the Russian Krnka that armed most of Russian infantry. The Berdan II was on par with the Martini-Peabody, but it was just entering service in the Russian army.

Also, Turkish artillery's Krupp steel rifle breechloading field guns which were way better than the Russian bronze breachloaders.

[pancholom]

@sesquiculus

As for American weapons on the Russian side, besides the S&W revolvers, the Berdan II or Berdanka was designed by US Col. Hiram Berdam, though the service rifles were made either in England (a first batch of 30,000 by BSA) or Russia.

Besides, the Romanian infantry used Peabody rifle made by the Providence Tool Company (R.I., U.S.A.) the same company that made the Turkish rifles but of a different model.

[pancholom]

@sesquiculus actually the Turkish soldiers were mostly equipped with either the .45 Martini-Peabody single shot rifle (U.S. made, pretty similar to the btitish Martini-Henry) and british surplus Snider Enfileds. They also had some Winchester repeaters, but far from being "armed mostly with Winchester lever action rifles".

The Remington Rolling blocks were used only by the Egyptian army fighting on the Turkish side.

[pancholom]

@Kasakkasotnia partially wrong: the russian berdanka was a bolt-action rifle, though a single shot one =P but you are right in that the mauser shown here didn't exist back then

[pancholom]

@harrubacool there were telescopic sights back in the day (though vey few, expensive, rather heavy and primitive), but mauser repeaters like this one would only appear 15 years later

[pancholom]

@Kitteh2006 that's exaclty the same I was thinking

[SamagarNoyan]

gay russian soldiers... LOL

[MRoKiLLaa]

who is the other guy??.. russian rambo? ^^

[TheTimur360]

good shot!!!