Complex sentence: He then fired a third shot and hit the Taliban's PKM machinegun in perhaps the most prodigious feat of marksmanship in military history, although it took him nine initial shots to range his target.
Split into simpler sentences: He then fired a third shot and hit the Taliban's PKM machinegun in perhaps the most prodigious feat of marksmanship in military history. Although it took him nine initial shots to range his target.