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German Copies the Soviets: L23 & L27 Silencers (ad-free)
🕑 Added 2022-09-12 12:01:02 +0000 UTCThe German L23 silencer was essentially a copy of captured Soviet Bramit silencers, complete with the attachment system locking around a rifle front sight. Two hundred of these made for the K98k rifle for German trials. These resulted in a desire for a better attachment method, and this led to the L27 design. The L27 was essentially the same wipe-based suppressor but attached using the locking clamp of the German rifle grenade spigots. A full thousand of the L27 silencers were ordered for production, although a shortage of rubber for the baffles (this was late in 1944) forced production to end early.
The L27 was intended to be used on basically all German 8mm small arms - the K98k, G43/K43, and MP44/StG44. Like the Soviet Bramit, it was intended for subsonic ammo, and a range table was engraved on body of can to give rear sight settings for ranges out to 250m with subsonics.
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Guido Schriewer
"E"ntfernung and "V"isier. range and sights markings.
YouTube being not okay with full-auto shooting, but suddenly comfortable with displaying a Nazi flag (despite both being in an actual educational/historical context), seems kind of backwards. Never can tell what they're actually thinking.
Forgotten Weapons
It appears so, although with YouTube anything can change at any time, retroactively, without warning.
Hypnotoad
Has youtube gotten better about having to blur the swastika in thumb nails?
Mr. Metzger
Seems like subsonic ammo was the only use case where you could actually exploit the optimistic range settings most sights provided back then.
Paul Beck
I wonder if they tried to substitute leather?? 🤔
