[fso301]

Hearing protectors.

[Savage Beast]

What’s a suppressor?

[AggregateThreat]

helps reduce the fog of war a little bit, which is a good thing, better control over your squad for sure. a bit more difficult for the enemy to figure out where you are. +++

[allendale]

Small unit combat is being revolutionized by technology. Drones equipped with technology that can identify, accurately target and attack any living entity on a field of contention. It is far more important for grunts to have devices on their persons identifying them as friendlies than almost any other equipment. It will be hard to shelter or take cover on a battlefield against a technologically sophisticated opponent.

[PIF]

“The intent is to suppress every M4, M4A1 and M27 in the infantry community,”

Enemy hearing protectors

[Afterguard]

Gosh! Just think how many of those precious $200.00 ATF stamps that’ll take! /s

[captain_dave]

Wait until they fit them on tanks and artillery!

[CodeToad]

The crack of the supersonic bullet is very loud. Suppressors help with the blast noise, taking it down to about 106db from 118db, but 106db is still loud and still leads to hearing loss.

A suppressor is also weight. Grunts already have heavy weights. Suppressors also need maintenance and get real dirty real fast.

I just measured the sound at the range various weapons and calibers. Suppressors are good but their use really needs to be weighed against their negatives.

[2banana]

100 year old technology.

Limited use on the battlefield.

And - ps - they don’t work that well unless you have subsonic ammo.

[Blurb2350]

Are silencers — suppressers — legal for private citizens who are otherwise lawful gunowners?

[Billthedrill]

It's an idea whose time has come (actually it's been here for a while, as the Special Forces and SWAT team kits attest). I took a low light/ no light course at an indoor range one time and a couple members of the class were using privately-owned suppressors. Huge difference. They ought to be mandatory for environments like that.

The only real downside is that they add length to the barrel, quite a bit of it, actually. The corresponding gain you do get in muzzle velocity (if any) tends to be offset by the fact that the chambers are trapping acceleration gases in order to work. Give and take - it's a design function, and it's the reason that the more effective suppressors tend to be larger. The real loss in muzzle velocity comes when you use subsonic ammunition in an attempt for maximum noise suppression. But in a tactical environment you're after quiet, not silence which you're not actually going to attain anyway. They can be a bugger to clean, too. Been there, done that. Just my $0.02.

[Leep]

Limited application?