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Ultralight Silencer: the Carbon Research CR9T (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2023-04-17 12:00:02 +0000 UTCOne of the cool new products we found at SHOT Show this year was the CR9T from Carbon Research. This is a small research company that has figured out how to bond metals to carbon fiber in a way that allows them to build a complete suppressor body and baffle stack out of ultralight carbon fiber and then armor the tips of the baffles to give them long term durability. They make a .22 caliber can that weighs just 2.3 ounces, and their 9mm/.300 Blackout can is just 7.3 ounces. That is the CR9T, with titanium internal plating and kevlar integrated into he body tube for greater strength - good for 9mm and .300 Blackout. They also make the CR9A which is the same thing using aluminum, and rated for only 9mm (a 5.56mm version is currently in development).
Carbon Research sent me two of the CR9T cans to try out, and we are taking them out to the range today. My hypothesis that they won't heat up as much as metallic cans was mostly disproven (although they do cool down faster than metal), but we had no problems running them and the light weight is really nice!
Comments
Guido Schriewer
that's a brit tropical blouse or..? 150 it was I think. got some rounds of the stuff leftover, too.
TheNetsrac
excellent stuff as always, thank you Ian
David T Klein
The blouse is very flattering for you (although in a couple of shots, you do fade into the desert background, which I presume is the point). Just curious, is the blouse in this video a safari jacket, or is it from a military uniform? Once this technology matures a little bit, I would love to see H&K make an MP5-SD with a carbon-fiber sound-suppressor and a carbon-fiber handle (which is also the housing for the trigger-pack) and carbon-fiber forward grip/hand-guard. It seems like this could make the already fairly light-and-handy MP5 even lighter and easier to carry around.
Mrgunsngear
Interesting. I reviewed the Small Arms Technologies (out of business now....) carbon fiber silencers years ago and they were WAY cooler than a metal can but not as quiet. This one seems to be very different on both fronts...
