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  2. From: fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
  3. Newsgroups: sci.military
  4. Subject: Re: Sonic Sniper Locater
  5. Message-ID: <C1D8Kz.9yp@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  6. Date: 24 Jan 93 16:02:59 GMT
  7. References: <C0E5pq.6z9@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C0syvK.66v@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> <C17vxC.F8y@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM>
  8. Sender: military@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM (Sci.Military Login)
  9. Organization: University of Colorado, Boulder
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  11. Approved: military@law7.daytonoh.ncr.com
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  14. From fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary)
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  16. In article <C17vxC.F8y@law7.DaytonOH.NCR.COM> fcrary@ucsu.Colorado.EDU (Frank Crary) writes:
  17. >I suspect many calibers couldn't be silenced effectively. I've never 
  18. >heard of a silencer for an M-16, or anything else firing .223 Rem.
  19.  
  20. After I posted this, someone pointed out, in e-mail, that there is
  21. a silencer for the M-14 (.308 Win). It has no effect at all on the
  22. supersonic shockwave/report of the bullet, but apparently this
  23. doesn't matter for military purposes: Unlike the noise produced
  24. at the muzzel, the shockwave doesn't give away the location of the
  25. sniper (I assume because it isn't produced at the sniper's location,
  26. but along the line of fire.) With such a silencer, people would know
  27. there was a sniper _somewhare_, but they wouldn't know where, exactly,
  28. he was.
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  30.                                                       Frank Crary
  31.                                                       CU Boulder
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