A sniper is a trained sharpshooter who operates alone, in a pair, or with a sniper team to maintain close visual contact with a target and engage the targets from concealed positions or distances exceeding the detection capabilities of enemy personnel.
Some notable military snipers include 63 (confirmed) According to Seyyed Ahmad Mousavi, his friend and Intelligence Commander of the Younis Diver Battalion of Imam Hussein army asked Zarrin how many kills he had, and he said more than 3,000 kills.
The Jamejam newspaper agreed on this number.
Not all snipers are highly trained professional soldiers.
The term is sometimes ambiguously used to describe criminals firing from cover at long range with a rifle, as well as police sharpshooters.