At great looking infographic that provides interesting facts about silencers - Devices that suppress the blast created when a gun is discharged.
At great looking infographic that provides interesting facts about silencers - Devices that suppress the blast created when a gun is discharged.
The only major thing this infographic leaves out is the differences in subsonic vs supersonic ammo.
If you’re firing supersonic ammo you’re going to get the ‘crack’ of the round breaking the sound barrier no matter what, and it’s always going to be somewhere in the vicinity of loud as fuck.
If you fire subsonic ammo it’s not going to be incredibly quieter… until you combine that with a suppressor, at which point the loudest part of the firearm can actually be the cycling of the action- the US actually requested a .45 suppressed pistol for SOCOM that could have the slide ‘locked’ which basically made it a single shot that was basically silent. iirc that got scrapped because the gun having to sit there static and absorb the force absolutely mangled it over time.
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If you fire subsonic ammo it’s not going to be incredibly quieter… until you combine that with a suppressor, at which point the loudest part of the firearm can actually be the cycling of the action
a .45 suppressed pistol
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