The accomplishment is one thing. The reaction is strange and curious.
It's being celebrated as if was a Nobel prize or a landmark in space exploration 
when in fact it's national pride in shooting someone from a record breaking distance.
It's used in this article as a reflection on the skill of the entire Canadian military and even has the  'better than the U.S.'  component. 
If America had done this it would be described  in terms of 'killing machine' or cowardliness because of the distance. If any other country had done this it wouldn't be news here.