Snipers in Airborne Operations

[Mac679]

okay, this is a question I thought about in Airborne School. A sniper in the 82nd is going to be Airborne qual'd so if he and his spotter get a mission that should require Airborne insertion, is the M1951 weapons case used? I don't think I'd want to put a scoped weapon in that thing, I can just see all sorts of nasty things happening to the zero? Is there another type of case that would be used ( I'm hoping there is )?

[sylntgrn1999]

Im not a sniper but i do know that when you jump a scope or anything sensitive they bubble wrap it.But that doesnt make it safe ive seen Peq-2s shattered with the bubble wrap on.

[Sharky]

I've jumped the M-24 in a 1950 several times and never had a problem. The system was designed to withstand the impact. They get banged around much more during day to day Ops than they do on a jump.

------------------
F.I.D.O.

[c130streamer]

I also have made a few jumps with the sws in a 1950 after the jump we did a live fire move to contact found my zero was pretty close but didnt engage any targets out past 500 meters.

[Ranger Manges]

With the XM-21 we jumped the scope (ART-II) in it's case in our rucks with the PVS-4, 9 times out of 10 the scope held a zero, the PVS-4 maybe 50% of the time. The M-24 jumps just fine in the 1950