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Originally Posted by August
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THIS. ^
Very good reminder, August, thank you - I hadn't meant to slight the SEAL guys who pulled MV MAERSK Alabama and her crew outta the piratical fire. there's no doubt those guys made beyond the best of a bad go; shooting a guy standing in a boat, from another ship, with a large bore rifle, with a third guy's life on the line, is what you call the SEALS for, and they showed that beyond question.
Rather, I was attempting to point out that there are ways of disabling smaller craft fairly simply, "simply" in this case meaning uncomplicated in theory - shooting a moving boat on the seas with a large-bore rifle from a helicopter moving in the air is, I imagine, not easy.
Anyone behind the sights/scope of a sniper rifle is already engaged in some complicated geometry. Add in pitching watercraft & aircraft on both ends of the equation, over a surface that is notorious for goofing with humidity levels and thermals, and the average person's head explodes in a fine mist of pluses, minuses, multiplicands, divisors, roots, cosines, tangents, chords, and numbers.