Whoa, Canada. A Canadian special forces sniper has broken a world record for longest confirmed kill shot in Iraq, per The Globe and Mail.
Sources told the newspaper that last month, a member of Canada’s Joint Task Force 2—a highly classified branch of the Canadian Armed Forces—hit an ISIS target from a distance of 2.14 miles. The sniper was perched atop a high-rise building, and the kill shot took a full 10 seconds to reach its victim. The record-breaking kill was verified by multiple sources.
The anonymous military source also noted that the shot helped disrupt an attack on Iraqi forces, and “instead of dropping a bomb that could potentially kill civilians in the area, [the shot was] a very precise application of force and because it was so far way, the bad guys didn’t have a clue what was happening.”
The previous world record for a confirmed kill shot was held by British sniper Craig Harrison, who hit target from 1.5 miles away in 2009.
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