
In World War II, a phenomenal sniper shot was something like 1,100 meters. The German marksman Matthäus Hetzenauer is generally credited with the longest confirmed kill of the war at roughly that distance, and at the time it was the stuff of legend. A kilometer. Through iron-and-glass optics, with a bolt-action rifle, in the dirt, with nothing but your own eyeballs and a lot of math done in your head.
The current record is 4,000 meters. That’s about two and a half miles. And the shot was guided by a drone and a computer running artificial intelligence.
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