The Marine Corps Has Started Fielding 30,000 Rifle Suppressors to Combat Units
After years of planning, infantry Marines are finally getting their hands on small arms suppressors aimed at helping combat units avoid detection while firing on enemy positions.
Adding a supressor will change the point of impact, but it doesn't take much training to learn the two different zeros. As far as affecting accuracy,a supressor will generally tighten your groups.
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Have they fixed the problem of a suppressor affecting accuracy?
ReplyDeleteAdding a supressor will change the point of impact, but it doesn't take much training to learn the two different zeros. As far as affecting accuracy,a supressor will generally tighten your groups.
DeleteWill the suppressors still allow a bayonet to be fixed?
ReplyDeleteFrom what i have seen and read lately they stopped issuing bayonets!!! grayman
DeleteNo bayonets? Then there's no point!
DeleteI would like to see if i can't hear the suppressors they are getting?
ReplyDeleteAs the article mentions, suppressors here are more for reducing hearing loss and improving communication than for keeping the enemy from hearing them.
ReplyDeleteAdded bonus: The anti-gunners can claim suppressors should be banned completely from civilian use because they're "Instruments of Warrrr!"
DeleteYou still get about 130 dB using a suppressor.
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ReplyDeleteI use mufflers on chain-saws, vehicles, lawn-mowers.
I think noisy equipment should be manufactured with mufflers as standard... not optional, not taxed or back-ground checked nor fussed with by bureaucrats.
" ... firing on enemy positions ... "
ReplyDeleteWho's the "enemy"?