| From: | The Bookworm <Thomas.M.Price@*******.EDU> |
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| Subject: | Supressed weapons (was: Sniper rifles) |
| Date: | Sat, 27 Dec 1997 13:14:10 -0600 |
> IIRC, silencers reduce the velocity of the gasses produced by the firing,
> keeping them subsonic as they exit the barrel, but do not reduce the
> bullet's velocity (otherwise, why not simply reduce the powder used int he
> round so it never gets to super-sonic velocity?). If there's someone on
> the list with better knowledge of silencers, please chime in now. My info
> comes from my Dad, who did serve in the army for years and picked up a lot
> there, but it's possible he's not entirely correct.
Ok there are Two parts to Supressing a weapon. 1) Containing the noise
from propelent gasses. 2) Making the round subsonic so you dont get the
sonic crack as it wizes along. Your dad probaly explained part one to you
fairly well from what youve said but ill try my well read laymans had at
number 2.
Sure you can just load ammo that is lower in propellent so that
the bullet never goes super sonic but then you probaly have to design a
special weapon for it. A round with lower amounts of propelent will
probaly not have enough power to operate the loading mechanism thereby
turning your FA Supressed SMG into a one shot manual cock weapon.
The other reason for just bleeding off the propelent gasses to
keep the round from going supersonic is a logistical reason. Its a lot
easier to give everyone the same ammo than to make sure the supressed
weapon has the subsonic 9mm and the normal pistols and smg has the
supersonic 9mm ammo. You cant grab ammo off of your teamates when you get
low to:).
Thomas Price
aka The Bookworm
thomas.m.price@*******.edu
tmprice@***********.com
