Pick One 🔴 Live Discussion 🔴 Feb 20th, 2024 -Tue- 16:00 (4pm) CST
Feat. special guest Ian McCollum from @ForgottenWeapons
👉 [Option 1] Kar98k Zf39 sniper with a mix of 53x sniper (Match 196gr Ss.) and 10x (incendiary “observation” ammunition)
👉 [Option 2] Mosin Nagant PEM Sniper with suppressor (Bramit device) with a mix of 150x decreased velocity ammunition and 150x standard ammunition
*Yes we know it's not a PEM Sniper here, the PU sniper is a stand-in*
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⚔️SCENARIO⚔️: Winter, 1943, Stalingrad, Russia
- Disclaimer at the end of this situation brief -
It’s winter 1943, and you’re a German sniper on the Eastern Front. You’ve been sent on a special military operation to deal with a Soviet sniper problem and you’ve been in the vicinity doing reconnaissance. Your target is a young Soviet sniper who has been heavily featured as a Soviet hero sniper in their propaganda.
While you can return to German lines, you have been spending weeks in the field at a time, deep behind russian lines to target and eliminate the enemy sniper problem.
So you carefully craft a trap in the department store to destroy him and his observer. Finally from your hide, you see a pair of snipers inbound and you slowly target them. You are able to eliminate one of them while they were displacing, and observed that the other sniper had withdrawn... so hours later, you went to assess your kill.
The deceased soviet sniper has a rifle that you had only heard of: the Mosin Nagant PEM sniper with a Bramit device on the muzzle. A device that decreases the noise signature of the rifle… and it matches what intelligence reports had been suggesting: that Soviet snipers were very difficult to locate, presumably they were using NKVD's field manufactured "decreased-velocity" loads for their Mosin snipers with suppressors as well.
You bring the enemy sniper’s rifle with you as a trophy or a useful tool as you begin to exfiltrate with a bandolier of ammunition that… the Soviet sniper didn’t need anymore, but at that moment you freeze. The rumble of a Soviet armored column echoes in the streets and as you look over, a shot rings out, barely misses you, and you drop to the ground.
Enemy sniper in the area!
You are now forced to slowly crawl out of the vicinity to safety and can only carry one rifle with associated ammunition back to safety:
👉 1, the Kar98k Zf39 sniper with a mix of 53x sniper (Match 196gr Ss.) and 10x (incendiary “observation” ammunition)
👉 2, the Mosin Nagant PEM Sniper with suppressor (Bramit device) with a mix of 150x decreased velocity ammunition and 150x standard ammunition
Though you survived the sniper shot, it will likely take you 24 hours of “slow” travel to safely return to German lines.
Both rifles appear to be serviceable, especially with the intelligence reports on the other soviet sniper eliminating german troops with such deadly accuracy, and that your rifle was spared from damage. Which option will you choose to survive and fight another day?
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Disclaimer: This fictional scenario is loosely based on historical events that serve to convey a tactical situation for discussion. This fictional setting, characters and historical examples of this scenario brief do not reflect the views or positions of any commenters and associated entities.
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Pick One 🔴 Live Discussion 🔴 Feb 20th, 2024 -Tue- 16:00 (4pm) CST
👉 [Option 1] Kar98k Zf39 sniper with a mix of 53x sniper (Match 196gr Ss.) and 10x (incendiary “observation” ammunition)
👉 [Option 2] Mosin Nagant PEM Sniper with suppressor (Bramit device) with a mix of 150x decreased velocity ammunition and 150x standard ammunition
*Yes we know it's not a PEM Sniper here, the PU sniper is a stand-in*
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⚔️SCENARIO⚔️: Winter, 1943, Stalingrad, Russia
- Disclaimer at the end of this situation brief -
It’s winter 1943, and you’re a German sniper on the Eastern Front. You’ve been sent on a special military operation to deal with a Soviet sniper problem and you’ve been in the vicinity doing reconnaissance. Your target is a young Soviet sniper who has been heavily featured as a Soviet hero sniper in their propaganda.
While you can return to German lines, you have been spending weeks in the field at a time, deep behind russian lines to target and eliminate the enemy sniper problem.
So you carefully craft a trap in the department store to destroy him and his observer. Finally from your hide, you see a pair of snipers inbound and you slowly target them. You are able to eliminate one of them while they were displacing, and observed that the other sniper had withdrawn... so hours later, you went to assess your kill.
The deceased soviet sniper has a rifle that you had only heard of: the Mosin Nagant PEM sniper with a Bramit device on the muzzle. A device that decreases the noise signature of the rifle… and it matches what intelligence reports had been suggesting: that Soviet snipers were very difficult to locate, presumably they were using NKVD's field manufactured "decreased-velocity" loads for their Mosin snipers with suppressors as well.
You bring the enemy sniper’s rifle with you as a trophy or a useful tool as you begin to exfiltrate with a bandolier of ammunition that… the Soviet sniper didn’t need anymore, but at that moment you freeze. The rumble of a Soviet armored column echoes in the streets and as you look over, a shot rings out, barely misses you, and you drop to the ground.
Enemy sniper in the area!
You are now forced to slowly crawl out of the vicinity to safety and can only carry one rifle with associated ammunition back to safety:
👉 1, the Kar98k Zf39 sniper with a mix of 53x sniper (Match 196gr Ss.) and 10x (incendiary “observation” ammunition)
👉 2, the Mosin Nagant PEM Sniper with suppressor (Bramit device) with a mix of 150x decreased velocity ammunition and 150x standard ammunition
Though you survived the sniper shot, it will likely take you 24 hours of “slow” travel to safely return to German lines.
Both rifles appear to be serviceable, especially with the intelligence reports on the other soviet sniper eliminating german troops with such deadly accuracy, and that your rifle was spared from damage. Which option will you choose to survive and fight another day?
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Disclaimer: This fictional scenario is loosely based on historical events that serve to convey a tactical situation for discussion. This fictional setting, characters and historical examples of this scenario brief do not reflect the views or positions of any commenters and associated entities.
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Pick One 🔴 Live Discussion 🔴 Dec 6th, 2023 -Wed- 18:00 (6pm) CST
👉 [Option 1] P90 w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
👉 [Option 2] MP5k PDW w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
⚔️SCENARIO⚔️: 21st October, 2023, Israel / Palestine
Two weeks ago, Hamas infiltrated Israel and inflicted one of the worst attacks to Israel since it’s existence.
After you’ve left your U.S. SOCOM outfit, and multiple deployments in the ME, you have now found post-military employment as the chief of security and primarily operate an executive protection contract for a prominent tech giant’s family.
On the fateful day of the Oct 7th attack, your CEO’s 19 y/o daughter, Sarah, was attending a music festival in Re’im, Israel. Hamas fighters flooded the music festival during the early morning hours and massacred up to 260 civilians and took a number of civilian hostages into the Gaza Strip.
Initial proof of life emerged of Sarah being held at an unknown location in Gaza during the first days of the abduction, and you have temporarily relocated to a safehouse south of Tel-Aviv and started to work with local assets to locate the subject.
However you do not have any IDF authorization to operate in armed security operations, so your work has been limited to intelligence gathering and preparing for negotiations. Israeli AF bombings and power outages have made it very difficult to keep in touch with your free-lancers and undercover security contractors on ground.
You’ve just received two credible proofs of life and a very probable indication that Sarah is being held at an underground location in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. She is suspected to be held in a partial tunnel network under an abandoned school.
Intel suggests that Palestinian insurgents have been busy moving casualties, ammunition and weapons to an alternate location, since the tunnel network that Sarah is held in, had been partially damaged by IDF JDAMs.
Your security element in Gaza agrees that you currently have a 48 hour window as the insurgent strength in Sarah’s location has decreased about 70% to help move supplies and set up at their alternate location.
Your primary mission is to extract Sarah from her location as insurgent security is lowered… and your secondary mission is to exfiltrate your undercover contractors from the budding warzone.
Your 3x security contractors in Gaza will rendezvous for a hasty extraction of Sarah as a part of their exfiltration.
The plan calls for a covert infiltration into Gaza. Remember you do not have authorization from the IDF for an armed extraction. You must travel under-cover to an olive grove near Erez to meet a ranking IDF officer who will ferry you through CP Erez as an NGO representative.
Once crossed into Gaza, you will meet your on-ground team at ‘Izbat Beit Hanoun and penetrate through 200-300m of a low-security tunnel network to Sarah’s location and breach to extract her. Upon extraction, you will meet a smuggler on the shore side to penetrate the IDF Sea Blockade for safe transport to Cyprus and safe passage home through the local U.S. Embassy.
This is an extremely high risk security operation, but the CEO has raised a USD $7.4 million payout for you and your team upon mission success.
Since you are relying on bribes and covert action in this mission, any weapons selected must be concealed.
As you prepare to leave your safehouse, you grab a civilian bag and pack your primary weapon:
👉 [Option 1] P90 w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
👉 [Option 2] MP5k PDW w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
You may carry as much ammunition as you can manage, a PVS14 night vision unit, two flash bangs and one smoke grenade. As armor is considered a norm for NGOs in a warzone, wearing armor should not raise suspicion. Your contractors all have PVS14 night vision units as a part of their basic surveillance kit that they have on them.
Your under-cover security contractors in Gaza are currently armed with pistols only, but who knows what you can find in the tunnels… as long as you make sure that they are not booby trapped.
*** Ashley, a U.S. Army Infantry officer turned simulations officer, will join us on this discussion, she was our SME in our podcast episode on subterranean warfare and has academic publications on the topic of subterranean military operations ***
Hurry, the 48 hour window will be up fast, and you have no idea when the IDF plans on a ground attack in Gaza, which will eliminate any opportunity to complete your primary and secondary missions.
Pick One 🔴 Live Discussion 🔴 Dec 6th, 2023 -Wed- 18:00 (6pm) CST
Pick One 🔴 Live Discussion 🔴 Dec 6th, 2023 -Wed- 18:00 (6pm) CST
👉 [Option 1] P90 w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
👉 [Option 2] MP5k PDW w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
⚔️SCENARIO⚔️: 21st October, 2023, Israel / Palestine
Two weeks ago, Hamas infiltrated Israel and inflicted one of the worst attacks to Israel since it’s existence.
After you’ve left your U.S. SOCOM outfit, and multiple deployments in the ME, you have now found post-military employment as the chief of security and primarily operate an executive protection contract for a prominent tech giant’s family.
On the fateful day of the Oct 7th attack, your CEO’s 19 y/o daughter, Sarah, was attending a music festival in Re’im, Israel. Hamas fighters flooded the music festival during the early morning hours and massacred up to 260 civilians and took a number of civilian hostages into the Gaza Strip.
Initial proof of life emerged of Sarah being held at an unknown location in Gaza during the first days of the abduction, and you have temporarily relocated to a safehouse south of Tel-Aviv and started to work with local assets to locate the subject.
However you do not have any IDF authorization to operate in armed security operations, so your work has been limited to intelligence gathering and preparing for negotiations. Israeli AF bombings and power outages have made it very difficult to keep in touch with your free-lancers and undercover security contractors on ground.
You’ve just received two credible proofs of life and a very probable indication that Sarah is being held at an underground location in the northern part of the Gaza Strip. She is suspected to be held in a partial tunnel network under an abandoned school.
Intel suggests that Palestinian insurgents have been busy moving casualties, ammunition and weapons to an alternate location, since the tunnel network that Sarah is held in, had been partially damaged by IDF JDAMs.
Your security element in Gaza agrees that you currently have a 48 hour window as the insurgent strength in Sarah’s location has decreased about 70% to help move supplies and set up at their alternate location.
Your primary mission is to extract Sarah from her location as insurgent security is lowered… and your secondary mission is to exfiltrate your undercover contractors from the budding warzone.
Your 3x security contractors in Gaza will rendezvous for a hasty extraction of Sarah as a part of their exfiltration.
The plan calls for a covert infiltration into Gaza. Remember you do not have authorization from the IDF for an armed extraction. You must travel under-cover to an olive grove near Erez to meet a ranking IDF officer who will ferry you through CP Erez as an NGO representative.
Once crossed into Gaza, you will meet your on-ground team at ‘Izbat Beit Hanoun and penetrate through 200-300m of a low-security tunnel network to Sarah’s location and breach to extract her. Upon extraction, you will meet a smuggler on the shore side to penetrate the IDF Sea Blockade for safe transport to Cyprus and safe passage home through the local U.S. Embassy.
This is an extremely high risk security operation, but the CEO has raised a USD $7.4 million payout for you and your team upon mission success.
Since you are relying on bribes and covert action in this mission, any weapons selected must be concealed.
As you prepare to leave your safehouse, you grab a civilian bag and pack your primary weapon:
👉 [Option 1] P90 w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
👉 [Option 2] MP5k PDW w/ Red dot, Light, Laser, suppressor
You may carry as much ammunition as you can manage, a PVS14 night vision unit, two flash bangs and one smoke grenade. As armor is considered a norm for NGOs in a warzone, wearing armor should not raise suspicion. Your contractors all have PVS14 night vision units as a part of their basic surveillance kit that they have on them.
Your under-cover security contractors in Gaza are currently armed with pistols only, but who knows what you can find in the tunnels… as long as you make sure that they are not booby trapped.
*** Ashley, a U.S. Army Infantry officer turned simulations officer, will join us on this discussion, she was our SME in our podcast episode on subterranean warfare and has academic publications on the topic of subterranean military operations ***
Hurry, the 48 hour window will be up fast, and you have no idea when the IDF plans on a ground attack in Gaza, which will eliminate any opportunity to complete your primary and secondary missions.
Pick One 🔴 Live Discussion 🔴 Dec 6th, 2023 -Wed- 18:00 (6pm) CST
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10 years ago during a snow storm, stuck at FOB Sharana (I remember that this was an old Russian airbase before we got there) with my trusty Colt M4A1 Block 1.
There’s a reason why it’s our main rifle and there are reasons why SOCOM loved the SOPMOD Block1 program so much.
The M4A1 Block 1 gives me all the feels when I pick one up, much like the M16A2.
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