You KNOW you want one.... to take to an Appleseed.
-Mike
But there's no Tech-Sights on it...Won't get through the gate....
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You KNOW you want one.... to take to an Appleseed.
-Mike
You KNOW you want one.... to take to an Appleseed.
-Mike
Find it unlikely they want a suppressed weapon for stealth shooting. The thing fires a freaking 20mm shell that travels way faster than the speed of sound which means it is going to have its own sonic boom. So anyone close to the firing spot is still going to hear a crack even if you suppress the actual firing. This is true with any silenced weapon unless you fire subsonic rounds...then the suppression is actually pretty good. Not quite like the TV version...but not bad. Highly doubt they are going for the stealth shot with subsonic 20mm (effective range very limited ) My guess is the suppression is just to save the ears of the shooter and anyone standing next to him. That thing has got to have a pretty good roar without the suppressor.
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EDIT: Oh, and I had one in my Ferrari but it was stolen last week while my hot wife was driving through the Italian Alps.
How DOES one suppress a 20MM rifle?
"Well, I suppressed it, so now they'll only hear me coming if I shoot at them closer than 20 miles"
My assumption is the longer the suppressor, the quieter it is (subject to the law of diminishing returns at some point...), but eventually you'll either run out of barrel to turn into suppressor or you'll have a gun so long you'll have to vehicle mount it. Either way...
..They will do wound analysis
If by "wound analysis" you mean spending countless hours blasting various things apart and careful analyzing the slo-mo footage while yelling "WOOOOA!" Yes, I imagine they will.Hey, just because it will be on small pieces, doesn't mean they won't do it...
If they are only buying two it's to play with them and figure out their characteristics. They will do wound analysis, ballistic analysis (casing and bullet), etc. When they order 10-20 then you can expect they are heading into the field.
20MM rifles were first manufactured by Armscor (Lyttleton Engineering Works), in South Africa. Because of the arms embargo, the South Africans became quite adept at "rolling their own" in terms of military weapons and vehicles. The only advantage that 20MM would have over .50 BMG would be in stopping a (stolen?) Level 5 police-type tactical armored vehicle, such as the Lemco B.E.A.R. and B.E.A.R.C.A.T. These vehicles will stop up to .50 BMG, but could be defeated by anything greater. For anti-armor use, I would skip the rifles altogether and go straight for a compact rocket launcher, such as the 66MM L.A.W. or the AT-4. The FBI's latest toy is simply a solution looking for a problem that does not exist and will likely never exist. Very expensive and very impractical.
Actually, 20mm rifles have been around longer than that... The Finns made use of them in WW2. Zero Hour has one.
I want one of these. Do you think Coakley may allow it in state?
They are going to use it in testing taking down planes.
"Like tossing a hot-dog down a hallway"a .22 rimfire conversion kit?
Were they 20MM? I thought they were like .52 or something - or am I thinking of the Soviet AT rifles?