Today I’m at B&T in Thun, Switzerland taking a look at the whole history of the company’s suppressors. They began back in the 90s when founder Karl Brügger was working as a machinist and had spare time available – so he started making silencers for himself and his friends. That grew into a small business, then a larger business getting contracts for Swiss police departments and making commercial sales, and eventually into the major industry player it is today. B&T is not the best-known name in the United States, but they have a long history of making OEM suppressors for major European arms companies like H&K.
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Had to check myself – 4.3mm, yep never adopted but interesting that B&T was making a suppressor for the HK 36. Great vid.
HK36 (not to be confused with Bundeswehr G36 which originally was called HK50 if I remember correctly) fired a 4.6 mm x 36 cartridge.
I was going to say that I wondered why the project was so short-lived but the energetics of that round probably tell the whole story. ~1k J v 5.56 @ 1.7k and my favorite “forgotten” 6.5 Grendle @ ~2.5k
12:09 – I think brain surgery might be easier than attaching this can?
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