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[unixronin]

<Brain>  "PINKY!  ...Are you thinking what I'm thinking?"

<Pinky>  "Uh, I think so, Brain, but where are we going to find a silencer big enough to put on a tank?"

I gotcher tank¹ silencer right here.

[1]  Yes, I know it's not technically a tank, it's an M109 self-propelled 155mm howitzer.  But do you really think Pinky knows the difference?  He's barking² insane.

[2]  And that's not easy when you're a mouse.

Comments

[johnkzin.livejournal.com]

As silencers/suppressors don't 100% silence a shot, I wonder how loud that thing actually sounds when it's fired. Turn an immediate huge rumbling BANG into a distant soft rumble, even if you're right near it? (probably still makes your bones shake, though)

I'd love to see/hear/maybe-even-feel-from-being-100-yards-away a shot with and without one of those. I'd settle for a video comparison with sound wave graphs for comparison, though :-)

[unixronin.livejournal.com]

I've been twenty yards from a British 5.5" gun (approximately 140mm) during live fire, which has to be pretty comparable to the 155mm. It's ... pretty loud. I have no idea how effective the suppressor is. I would expect it to damp most of the report of the gun itself; of course, there will still be the supersonic shockwave of the shell, but that's a lot quieter.