Talk:Baza/@comment-83.23.131.97-20171124005306/@comment-25254386-20171124042045

Not sure why your're typing like silencer is the wrong term. Silencers and suppressors are the same thing and silencer is actually the correct term, not suppressor (though suppressor technically makes more sense).

Also, the average bullet travels well above the speed of sound already, no silencer will change that unless specifically designed to do so (in which case it would need to drop the velocity by at least 55%, which is ridiculous). Even the first silencers didn't decrease the velocity that much though.

The sonic boom created by a bullet is actually very small too. Even just 20 yards away it's barely more audible than the whizzing it makes. The main source of noise you need to worry about is the muzzle bang, which is the sole reason silencers exist.

In any case, modern silencers do not decrease muzzle velocity. In many cases they increase it (but only by about 10-20fps as mentioned before).