Silencer (firearms): Difference between revisions - Wikipedia

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[[File:ReflexSuppressor-WP-Drwg.png|thumb|Cross-section drawing of a centerfire rifle silencer, showing expansion chamber "reflexed" (going back around) the rifle barrel, and four sound baffles. The diffractor and baffles are carefully shaped to deflect gas.|alt=]]

[[File:Vaime-Suppressor-22-WP-Drwg.png|thumb|Cross-section drawing of a rimfire rifle silencer, showing short expansion chamber and thirteen plastic baffles. These baffles use alternating angled flat surfaces to repeatedly deflect gas expanding through the silencer. In the actual silencer, baffles are orientated at 90 degrees to one another about the axis of bullet travel. (The illustration does not demonstrate this well.)]]

[[File: Huntertown Kestrel 5.56 disassembled.JPG|thumb|left|Firearm suppressor disassembled to show blast chamber, baffles, and sections of the outer tube]]▼

[[File:Navy-HushPuppy-WP-Drwg.png|thumb|Cross-section drawing of a pistol silencer, showing expansion chamber wrapped around inner suppressor assembly, and four wipes. The bullet pushes a bullet-diameter hole through the wipes, trapping propellant gas behind it entirely until the bullet has passed through the wipe completely]]

▲[[File: Huntertown Kestrel 5.56 disassembled.JPG|thumb|left|Firearm suppressor disassembled to show blast chamber, baffles, and sections of the outer tube]]

[[File: Patent DE1553874 07-Oct-1971 Handfeuerwaffe mit Schalldaempfer Heckler und Koch.png|thumb|Cross-section of a silencer integral to the firearm]]