The world's top ten snipers, the Soviet Union occupies 4 of them, two men and two women!
The second-ranked Ivan Sidorenko, who sniped about 500 enemies with a Mosin Nagant rifle during World War II, was nicknamed "Ghost in the Dark" to show his superb sniping skills. Ivan Sidorenko was able to retreat from the battlefield every time until the end of the war, when he died in 1995.
The third place is the Hero of the Soviet Union, Nikolai Yakrivich Ilyin, this heroine is also very violent, personally sniping 494 people, creating a female sniper kill record, no one has been able to break it so far, but unfortunately she died in battle shortly after creating this record, and there is relatively little information about her.
In fourth place is the Hero of the Soviet Union Vasily Zaitsev, who was filmed on the basis of the film Soldiers in the City, known as the "German sniper nemesis", Vasily sniped 225 German soldiers in the Battle of Stalingrad, including 11 top German snipers. Vasily also retired from the battlefield and died in 1991.
In fifth place is the Hero of the Soviet Union Lyudmila Mikhaillovna Pavlichenko, a veritable "sniper queen" sniped a total of 309 German soldiers, including 36 snipers, she is a world-renowned sniper star, was received by the United States ** Roosevelt, after the war, she was promoted to rear admiral officer, died in 1974.
Next up is the number one sniper in the world, the king of snipers, Simon Haye, who sniped 542 Soviet Red Army with a Mosin Nagant rifle, making the Soviet Red Army almost collapse, you wear a white camouflage uniform, cruising in an environment of more than minus 20 degrees, known as the "White Grim Reaper" by the Soviet Army. He also killed more than 200 people with submachine guns. Simon Hayer was wounded in combat and had his jaw crooked, but survived and died in 2002 at the age of 97.
In sixth place is Matthias Heizenor, the greatest sniper in the history of the German army, sniping the enemy 345, he believes that the first purpose of a sniper is not to kill, but to influence the attack by sniping the opponent's key figures, so as to turn the tide of the war!In the Normandy landing battle, his concept was put to good use, he used a K98 sniper**, sniped the opposing commander by name, repelled 8 Allied attacks, and one person held a position. Matthias Heitzenor died in 2004.
Ranked seventh is the American "cold-blooded killer" Chuck Mawhini, during the Vietnam War, with an M40 sniper rifle in 19 months, sniped 319 Vietnamese soldiers, he once sniped 16 people in 30 seconds, this record has not been broken so far!He died in 2004.
Ranked eighth is the American "white feather" Carlos Haskak, during the Vietnam War, he stuck a white feather in the jungle and killed a total of 93 Vietnamese soldiers, and the unofficial kill statistics reached more than 300 people. Its battle with the Vietnamese sniper "Cobra" is a classic!Carlos died in 1999.
Ranked ninth is Zhang Taofang, the "Cold Gun Hero" and "Shangganling Sniper God" of the Chinese People's Volunteers, who used a Mosin Nagant M1944 cavalry rifle without an optical scope, with 436 bullets, to kill 214 enemies This was created by him in 32 days, and the most powerful thing is that this is the sniper technique he learned on the Korean battlefield, which can be described as a god. After the war, Zhang Taofang became the first generation of fighter pilots in my country!Mr. Zhang unfortunately passed away in 2007.
The tenth German Konings, the principal of the sniper school, was sniped by Vasily in 1943, just as the soldiers came to the city.