Sniper aerial platform course
Course training statement: “To teach sniper operatives the knowledge & skills required to plan, prepare & fit aerial platforms for sniper missions in order to deliver effective small arms precision fire onto an identified target”
Course description: “The course teaches the students how to plan & excute sniper missions from aerial platforms. It covers the pre-mission preparation of the helo platform, how to control it during flight & how to deliver accurate precision small arms fire onto an identified target”.
Course title: Sniper aerial platform course
Qualification: Sniper aerial platform operator
Course duration: 2 weeks
Teaching periods per day: 8
Length of teaching period: 40 minutes
Course entry standards: Qualified basic sniper
Block syllabus
- Introduction to sniper aerial platform work
- Setting up of aerial platforms
- Mildot shooting techniques
- Engagement techniques aerial platforms
- Communications aerial platforms
- Load master and pilots brief aerial platform
- Safety regulations aerial platform
- The aerial platform sniper box
- Inclined shooting techniques
- Operations – aerial platforms
- Practical engagement aerial platforms
- Reception and lift-off aerial platforms
- Future equipment aerial platforms
- Tactics, techniques and procedures – aerial platforms
- Introduction to sniper aerial platform work – night-time operations
- Practical setting up of aerial platforms
- Practical engagement techniques from aerial platforms
- Practical communications aerial platforms
- Load master and pilots brief aerial platform
- Safety regulations aerial platform
- Final written test
