Danish Sniper Training [EN SUB]

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In the Oksbøl Camp, 14 chosen soldiers are training to become "marksmen", like it is called in the Danish Army. Abroad, they say "sniper". A marksman must be able to hit his enemy with surgical precision at unbelieveable distances. Regardless of how much the pulse is pumping and how nervous he is. Their job is to kill - in the service of a higher cause.

Based on experience from the Iraq War and the need for longer range fire without endangering civilians, the first Danish conventional snipers were trained in 2006, and first deployed in Afghanistan. However, the Danish special forces had snipers prior to this.

Danish military terminology distinguishes between friendly and enemy snipers.
Friendly snipers are termed "Finskytte" (fine-shooter), which I have translated as marksman.
Enemy snipers are termed "Snigskytte" (sneak-shooter), which I have translated as sniper. "Snigskytte" has connotations to war criminals and terrorist, who fire upon civilians etc.
I use these different translations, to capture the nuance, even though it is more correct to translate both words into "sniper" in English.

The main sniper rifle in the Danish Army was the SAKO TRG-42 .338 Lapua Magnum, designated as Finskyttegevær M/04. According to the Danish Army, the effective range is 1.300 m.
The SAKO TRG-42 has now been replaced by the Accuracy International AXMC .338 Lapua Magnum. In addition, the HK417S, later replaced by the Colt Canada C20, in 7.62 NATO is used by spotters of sniper pairs and the sharpshooters of the light infantry squads, with an official effective range of 800 m. The Accuracy International AX50 in .50 BMG is used as an anti-materiel rifle, with an effective range of approximately 2.000 m.

Shabas was deployed as leader of a sniper section in 2nd Light Reconnaisance Squadron of the Guard Hussar Regiment, part of ISAF 8 from August 2009 to February 2010.
As of 2022, Lauge is leader of the sniper section in the Schleswig Regiment of Foot.

This documentary has a different flavour compared to most of the other, since it's part of a series where the hosts visits different places in society and tries to understand them.
So it's not really a military documentary first and foremost, and might have a few civilian cliches.
Nevertheless, this is the only documentary specifically about the Danish sniper program.
It was particularly difficult to translate, since the host has a habit of long poetic sentences, that he does not finish. So if anything is unclear, please write it in the comments, and I will try to make a less direct and more understandable translation.

Danish documentary from 2017 made by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation.

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