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I'm not sure if this is the forum to discuss guns technically, rather than just legally, but it seems the closest one to the subject.
Here's a video of a VSS that Brandon Herrera cobbled together from kits, with a more cusom silencer baffles.
As the video describes, the VSS is a rifle that uses heavy, subsonic ammunition and a built in silencer, to acheive true -- I'd say Hollywood-esque -- silencing. It's pretty interesting. The one weakness of this kind of solution is that while a heavy weight round will carry the same power as a lighter, faster round, the speed of the round will reduce the range considerably. In street fighting like we see in Ukraine, it would be deadly since there would be no audible cue or muzzle flash to pinpoint the sniper. Likewise a shooter in ambush and full cover would be able to get off a lot of shots before the ambushed soldiers had any clue what direction the shots were coming from.
A very specialized weapon, with a very limited use case, but is one of the best at what it does.
Here's a video of a VSS that Brandon Herrera cobbled together from kits, with a more cusom silencer baffles.
As the video describes, the VSS is a rifle that uses heavy, subsonic ammunition and a built in silencer, to acheive true -- I'd say Hollywood-esque -- silencing. It's pretty interesting. The one weakness of this kind of solution is that while a heavy weight round will carry the same power as a lighter, faster round, the speed of the round will reduce the range considerably. In street fighting like we see in Ukraine, it would be deadly since there would be no audible cue or muzzle flash to pinpoint the sniper. Likewise a shooter in ambush and full cover would be able to get off a lot of shots before the ambushed soldiers had any clue what direction the shots were coming from.
A very specialized weapon, with a very limited use case, but is one of the best at what it does.