Silencers

[dreamingAboutS3]

With the maps so big and many places to hide, It's going to be impossible to know where they are. From what I know I'm not going to like SOCOM 3 a whole lot, hopefully I'm wrong.

[Spike]

Look, supressers are the best things you can use, but only when the oppurunity allows it. Use them only on camoflaugy and dark maps.

[Canz]

yea, like in S2, theres no point in just running out in the middle of a level balls to the wall sprayin with a silencer, especially with a silencer, they are made more for stealth/camping

[Ctu-Nelson]

http://www.fortliberty.org/military-...pressors.shtml

Hi, here's some info I picked up off google.
With a good suppressor you:
- reduce recoil
- increase accuracy
- eliminate muzzle flash (at night time they can't see where their being shot at)
-dampen the sound of you gun.
-A good silencer will not slow down the bullet
To fully silence you gun though, you need to use sub-sonic ammunition, you don't have to, but in order to reduce you gun even more you must.

The sound of a gun come from the housing(all the gears working), the bullet exploding, muzzle flash, and the sonic crack of the bullet. The guns shell dampens the housing and bullet going off, and naturaly only the shooter will here this. The suppressor dampens teh muzzle "crack" flash. And if you use sub-sonic ammo, you are fully suppressed. If not, they cant see where your coming from.
And just to let you all know, you can silence and gun you want. The m60, the .50 cal sniper, the desert eagle, a grenade laucher(just not the nade, lol), anything. The only thing we cant silence is a shotgun that is using buck shot ammo(to my knowledge). The ammor messes with the sd. But if you use slugs with your shotty, then you covered.
Why doesnt the military all use suppressors. I dont know. I can only guess. According to my site, you can put them on wrong and sometimes sound is more deadly than no sound(scarring the enemy).They also add length to the gun, which in urban warfare, room to room you want a smaller gun. On D-day the M-1sd wouldn't have helped out much. The german Mg's acted as the sd's.
Ok sorry for the long post.

[~DaFlip~]

i thought the silencer was shooting faster then the M4A1 its self. plus the sd is so freaking accuarate its not even funny

[Canz]

its hard to tell, m4a1 and m4a1 silenced, doesnt it say in S2 which one has a fast fire rate?

[Jimdalf]

An M203 can be suppressed, but only be removing the propellant from the round, so it is liable to drop and smoulder at your feet...

In this day and age with body armour being the norm, you either want a high velocity round to hit and basically nulifuy the body armour (only 1-2 more rounds needing to shed his guts), or hit the guy a lot (3-6 times) with out him shooting back... this is when the M4A1SD comes in...

This comes into play in SOCOM because bullets snowball with the damage... shoot a guy with an M9... the first round does nothing, or very very little... but the second round does noticably more damage, and by the sicth, the killing slug, it can take about a third of a guy's health off... this is due to the armour weakening...

And yes, .50 cal guns can be silenced, but you should see the size of the thing!!!

[Ctu-Nelson]

I know there is a differecne between suppressors on muzzle breaks( i think i ment muzzle crack, but you can silence just about everything(when a say silence i dont mean you wont hear anything), it may not be worth it. And yes shooting to long will ruin a silencer. So you can suppress anything you want but, sometimes its not worth it. The .50 cal sniper is long enough, adding a sd will only make it longer and more unweildly. That goes for the pistols too, it will take you longer to draw you pistol because of a sd. But who wouldn't want a m4sd w/ m203sd and a modle 18sd or a MGLsd for single player. :D

[Spike]

Silencers are the most usefull tool for camping or dark places, its a commonly known fact.

[Jimdalf]

Suppresing a weapon does reduce the velocity of the bullet, but against a foe without body armour it will still be lethal

The SAS and many other organisations use suppressed rifles not for stealth, but for damage...

When assasinating a target, propellant is removed so the bullet is slower, and when it hits it does massive damage because it doesn't have enough force to be a through and through shot, it just minces the entire chest cavity, and god help you if he is going for a tip of the ear shot...

hehehe... that was off topic, but I don't think spamming