And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Marine and Army field testing showed that silencers make a big difference on the battlefield. While it does nothing to reduce the crack of supersonic bullets, the reduction in noise from muzzle blast is significant. It reduces hearing damage and more importantly on the battlefield, makes it a lot easier to hear commands and communicate. New rifles, carbines, and machine guns will all be suppressed.
I don't know, but with mass quantities, the military can get them for a whole lot cheaper than anyone else. 3D metal printing has made more effective designs possible, and should drive down prices more. They're a wear item. On machine guns, you're already changing barrels frequently if you're firing a lot, so with a silencer attached to each barrel, it's 6 of one or half-a-dozen of the other. If you're in a situation where you can't change barrels, you'll be destroying the barrel anyway.
That picture is not real clear but looks like a US M-60 with a flash suppressor that looks a little longer tan the one I used in Vietnam. Could be a later version. I have seen my barrel glow red just behind that front sight at night. As I was sitting in the right door of a Huey gunship the air stream kept the barrel cool enough to not burn it out but we did carry spare barrels incase we were forced down. At times I carried a spait M-60 for the same reason giving a pilot something to shoot other than his S&W 38 revolver. Great times for a 21 year old kid from West Tennessee!
Its belt fed, possibly crew served. What is the point of the silencer except as a very effective heat sink for the barrel.
ReplyDeleteThe crew always forgets their hearing protection, just a guess. Look closely, it's not a heat sink.
DeleteMarine and Army field testing showed that silencers make a big difference on the battlefield. While it does nothing to reduce the crack of supersonic bullets, the reduction in noise from muzzle blast is significant. It reduces hearing damage and more importantly on the battlefield, makes it a lot easier to hear commands and communicate. New rifles, carbines, and machine guns will all be suppressed.
DeleteLarry- how long do they last on the battlefield?
DeleteI don't know, but with mass quantities, the military can get them for a whole lot cheaper than anyone else. 3D metal printing has made more effective designs possible, and should drive down prices more. They're a wear item. On machine guns, you're already changing barrels frequently if you're firing a lot, so with a silencer attached to each barrel, it's 6 of one or half-a-dozen of the other. If you're in a situation where you can't change barrels, you'll be destroying the barrel anyway.
DeleteOk, I can see that, thanks!
DeleteThat picture is not real clear but looks like a US M-60 with a flash suppressor that looks a little longer tan the one I used in Vietnam. Could be a later version. I have seen my barrel glow red just behind that front sight at night. As I was sitting in the right door of a Huey gunship the air stream kept the barrel cool enough to not burn it out but we did carry spare barrels incase we were forced down. At times I carried a spait M-60 for the same reason giving a pilot something to shoot other than his S&W 38 revolver. Great times for a 21 year old kid from West Tennessee!
ReplyDeleteIt's a silencer, which also eliminates flash, but that's not its main purpose.
DeleteThat's not a -60, it's a GPMG/M-240.
DeleteAnd the barrel isn't hot, as already noted, but the suppressor sure is.
I saw a video of Sig using a similar setup as a test/ demo basically showing their suppressors ability/ durability.
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