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Two Ukrainian-made Snipex Alligator anti-materiel rifles chambered for 14.5×114mm
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this post was submitted on 25 Oct 2023
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Are those massive silencers on the end or something else?
Never seen a rifle that large before.
*supressors
What's the difference?
"Silencer" is the older and frankly BS term. Silencers don't silence anything outside of video games and movies. They more "suppress" the noise and muffle it a bit.
Basically it's the difference of firing it outside and having your ears ring forever or just for a long time
It's not a BS term it is the patented term used by Percy Maxim when he invented it.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US916885
Fair enough, but it when most people hear the name, they expect what they see in media and not what it is in real life