About: Arron Perry

An Entity of Type: animal, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Arron Perry is a former master corporal in the Canadian Forces who in March 2002 broke the 34-year-old record for the longest recorded sniper kill in combat, completing a kill at a range of 2,310 metres (2,526 yd) during the War in Afghanistan. This shot exceeded the previous record of 2,286 m (2,500 yd), set by Carlos Hathcock in 1968 during the Vietnam War. Perry's record was surpassed a few days later, in March 2002, when another soldier in his unit, Corporal Rob Furlong, bested Perry's distance with a kill at a verified range of 2,430 m (2,657 yd).

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Arron Perry is a former master corporal in the Canadian Forces who in March 2002 broke the 34-year-old record for the longest recorded sniper kill in combat, completing a kill at a range of 2,310 metres (2,526 yd) during the War in Afghanistan. This shot exceeded the previous record of 2,286 m (2,500 yd), set by Carlos Hathcock in 1968 during the Vietnam War. Perry's record was surpassed a few days later, in March 2002, when another soldier in his unit, Corporal Rob Furlong, bested Perry's distance with a kill at a verified range of 2,430 m (2,657 yd). Perry was a member of Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry at the time of the record shot, but began his military career with a Halifax Militia unit, the Princess Louise Fusiliers. (en)
  • Arron Perry est un ancien caporal-chef des Forces canadiennes qui en mars 2002 a détenu brièvement le record du tir longue distance au combat avec un ennemi abattu à une distance de 2 310 m. Ce tir dépasse de 24 m le précédent record de Carlos Hathcock qui avait été établi en 1968 pendant la guerre du Viêt Nam. Le record de Perry a été battu en mars 2002 par un autre membre de son escouade, le caporal Rob Furlong, qui tua un taliban à une distance de 2 430 m. Perry était membre de Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, mais commença sa carrière militaire dans une unité militaire d'Halifax, la Princess Louise Fusiliers. (fr)
dbo:allegiance
  • Canada
dbo:award
dbo:battle
dbo:militaryBranch
dbo:militaryUnit
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 2448195 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4971 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1103165146 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:after
dbp:allegiance
  • Canada (en)
dbp:awards
dbp:battles
dbp:before
dbp:branch
dbp:name
  • Arron Perry (en)
dbp:rank
dbp:title
dbp:unit
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dbp:years
  • 2002 (xsd:integer)
  • 2,310 m (en)
  • ( long-range sniper weapon (LRSW) w/ Hornady A-MAX .50) (en)
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Arron Perry is a former master corporal in the Canadian Forces who in March 2002 broke the 34-year-old record for the longest recorded sniper kill in combat, completing a kill at a range of 2,310 metres (2,526 yd) during the War in Afghanistan. This shot exceeded the previous record of 2,286 m (2,500 yd), set by Carlos Hathcock in 1968 during the Vietnam War. Perry's record was surpassed a few days later, in March 2002, when another soldier in his unit, Corporal Rob Furlong, bested Perry's distance with a kill at a verified range of 2,430 m (2,657 yd). (en)
  • Arron Perry est un ancien caporal-chef des Forces canadiennes qui en mars 2002 a détenu brièvement le record du tir longue distance au combat avec un ennemi abattu à une distance de 2 310 m. Ce tir dépasse de 24 m le précédent record de Carlos Hathcock qui avait été établi en 1968 pendant la guerre du Viêt Nam. Le record de Perry a été battu en mars 2002 par un autre membre de son escouade, le caporal Rob Furlong, qui tua un taliban à une distance de 2 430 m. (fr)
rdfs:label
  • Arron Perry (en)
  • Arron Perry (fr)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Arron Perry (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is dbp:after of
is dbp:before of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License