Counter terrorist sniper operators course
Course training statement: “To teach officers, soldiers and police operatives the knowledge & skills required to be a member of a ct sniper team. To have the ability to plan and execute a sniper response to a terrorist incident within a domestic environment”
Course description: “The course teaches the students the roles & responsibilities of a counter terrorist sniper. It provides the operator with advance shooting techniques enabling them to deliver precision fire within a stressful environment. It covers the different types of terrorist situation that the operator may respond to and includes all detail, planning & training required in order to be a member of a counter terrorist sniper team”
Course title: Counter terrorist sniper operators course
Qualification: Counter terrorist sniper operator
Course duration: 4 weeks
Teaching periods per day: 8
Length of teaching period: 40 minutes
Course entry standards: Employed within a counter terrorist military or government agency.
Block syllabus
- Introduction to counter terrorist sniping – the impact within global community
- Roles and responsibilities of a counter terrorist sniper team
- The sniper team kit and equipment counter terrorist sniper team
- Weapon training test – theory
- Weapon training tests – practical
- Construction of a ct detailed range card
- Deployment procedures of a ct sniper team
- Real-time reporting intelligence gathering ct environment
- Different natures of ammunition
- Defeating barriers
- The ct sniper open air option
- Practical real-time reporting& brevity codes
- Practical demonstration – ammunition penetration
- Target indexing a ct environment
- Establishment of grouping capacity 100 – 500 metres – rules of engagement tables
- Incapacitation & vital organ engagement
- Construction of a ct sniper op screen – improvised urban environments
- Team orbat of a ct sniper team
- Construction of reporting assist cards – counter terrorist environment
- Practical application of the co-ordinated volley ct environment
- Introduction to sniper co-ordination systems
- Counter terrorist operations – snipers supporting strongholds/assault
- Counter terrorist operations – snipers supporting ships alongside assault/underway assault
- Counter terrorist operations – snipers supporting high-rise assault
- Counter terrorist operations – snipers supporting aircraft assaults
- Counter terrorist operations – snipers supporting coaches/vehicle intercept assault
- Conducting counter terrorist sniper team survey – hotel
- Practical application limited exposure shoot
- Cold bore shooting
- Construction of a ct sniper mission planning room
- Responsibilities of the sniper ct mission management cell
- Counter terrorist sniper team orders
- Delivery of ct sniper orders
- Construction of ct sniper team orders books
- Ct range estimation
- Ct observation drills and procedures
- Employment of sniper screens within a ct environment
- Construction of a ct sniper survey report
- The psychological effects of taking a precision shot onto a long-term surveillance target
- Specific shot placement – cavitation, incapacitation and vital organs engagement
- International rules of engagement – domestic counter terrorism
- Conduct sniper survey practical – airfields
- Sniper survey report construction
- Conduct practical sniper survey shipyards
- Conduct cold shots 100 – 300 metres
- Stress shooting – advance application of fire
- Conduct practical ct sniper team deployment procedures
- Establish ct sniper matrix and initial reporting schedule ct sniper screen
- Target indexing& profiling
- Preparation support emergency response and deliberate action options
- Practical prepare coach option
- Practical prepare aircraft option
- Practical real-time reporting
- Post operational de-brief procedures
- Final written examination ct sniper course
- Ied awareness & recognition
- Moving targets
- Inclined shooting