AI troops suddenly appear and start shooting, when standing approximately the simulated ~100-200 feet away!
I believe I've also witnessed event when AI troops would shoot first, only to appear after your dead laying on the ground!
I have also seen very recently, when playing on a Official game servers with very few if any players, the AI troops will automatically pop-up from the ground after being significantly injured, where as injured human players on the ground require far much longer times to recover, mangle the keyboard trying to get the player to move upright, then to pick-up their dropped rifle. (Seems there are keyboard mangling player movement keys for simulating player grogginess after injury recovery, slowing their upright recovery. AI Troops sometimes obviously lack all of this!)