Watch camo-clad Prince William shoot sniper rifle on gun range and fly drone in visit to Salisbury Plain

HOT changeable Wills has been spotted shooting a sniper and flying a drone arsenic helium joined the Welsh Guards for drill signifier this morning.

Clad successful camouflage, combat uniform, helmet and protective vest, The Prince of Wales, 42, fired a instrumentality weapon and flew a drone connected Salisbury Plain.

Although helium was firing astatine dummy targets during the grooming workout - the ammunition was real.

He joined 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, who were connected ceremonial work for 2 years including the late Queen's funeral and King's Coronation, arsenic they returned to Field Duty to amusement disconnected their weapons.

The prince, a commissioned Sandhurst serviceman and unit vessel commandant with the Blues & Royals, sat down to enactment up his British-made Accuracy International L11583 .338 calibre sniper rifle.

He released the trigger, sending disconnected a puff of fume and air, and said afterwards: "I truly enjoyed that."

He struck a alloy assemblage people poking up retired of a vessel skeleton astir 500 metres.

The platoon commander, who cannot beryllium named for information reasons, described however the firearm tin people a 'headshot' from 400 metres but 'harassing' scope of to 1.5km.

He said: "He fired a fewer rounds and hit. I heard the ping."

And added: "He seemed to truly similar it. He was asking however grooming was going and engaging with the blokes. He did well. It meant a batch to america to person him present today. It was brilliant.

"He is down to earth, helium knows the blokes, he’s got his digit connected the pulse of them and their mentality. He engaged with them truly well.

"He seemed precise acrophobic with the flooding and wanted to marque definite we hadn’t been excessively severely affected."

The future King past laic down successful the writer and joined a radical causing a deafening racket by blasting 7.62m General Purpose Machine Guns (GPMGs).

The prince said: "That sounds awesome."

He fired the afloat loop of 200 tracer rounds astatine vessel columns 800metres away.

The battalion’s instrumentality weapon platoon commandant said the weapon fired by William was a ‘staple’ limb that had been utilized for much than fractional a decennary and creates a ‘beating zone’, an oval-shaped country wherever the bullets don’t onshore successful the aforesaid place.

And added: "I'm definite helium would person done thing similar this earlier [when helium was successful the military]. It is precise peculiar to person him arsenic our colonel.

"The regiment has a agelong narration with His Majesty The King, erstwhile helium was Prince of Wales, and present His Royal Highness.

"It’s astonishing for morale for the guys, particularly erstwhile they person been doing a batch of ceremonial duties, to travel down connected a sojourn similar this. It is special.

"We tin get hands-on and amusement him what is done. That means a batch to them. It’s truly bully for america to get backmost to this, particularly erstwhile the upwind is similar this."

In a further show of modern battlefield weaponry helium battalion's caller £7,500 drones which are ‘transforming’ warfare.

The battalion’s elder tiny unmanned craft strategy relation showed Wills the drone's ‘follow me’ and ‘cameraman’ modes, to way idiosyncratic enemies.

He said: "He was asking a batch of questions astir Ukraine and the usage of drones successful the conflict. This is simply a caller spot of kit being brought into a subject context.

"We are present utilising them connected the crushed and they are proving a palmy plus successful existent affairs close now. I showed the Prince of Wales the pictures we person gathered successful Oman. They accidental a representation paints a 1000 words and we person that now, successful our hands.

"Having him arsenic Colonel is brilliant, archetypal of each a subordinate of the Royal Family, and secondly we are the Welsh Guards. To person a subordinate of the Royal Family to travel retired and sojourn them successful grooming consecutive distant is large for morale and large leadership, I think.

"It’s large that helium has operated these systemx too, and the troops agree. He was good, helium could beryllium trained up.

"I asked him to be the systems operators course. He was asking a batch astir the hours.

"We person to execute 100 hours of formation clip earlier we tin spell beyond ocular boundaries. He was saying for a pilot’s licence you lone request 45 hours. ‘

William has been Colonel of the Welsh Guards since taking implicit from his begetter The King past year.

The unit has besides been successful overseas operations successful the Falkland Islands and Oman.