Episode 254 - Dead Air Wolfman Testing and MP5 Performance Research (09-APR-2025)

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Episode 254 - Dead Air Wolfman Testing and MP5 Performance Research (09-APR-2025)

Today’s Topics:

  1. Sound Signature Review 6.182 – the Dead Air Wolfman on the HK SP5 – in both long and short configurations. Prolific (and also misunderstood) submachine gun silencer. Let’s dive into the technical discussion of the data and analysis published last week.

    a. Introduction (00:07:46)

    b. Physical Characteristics (00:17:31)

    c. Technical Performance – Long Configuration (00:27:10)

    d. Technical Performance – Short Configuration (00:44:04)

    e. MP5 Suppression Performance Comparisons (00:51:09)

  2. Pending Member Research – MP5 suppression. The Quietest 9mm Subgun Silencers. We all know and love the MP5 platform. It is, perhaps, one of the most famous and refined subgun silencer hosts that we have in small arms. So, which silencers help it to perform at its greatest potential? Which have the best signature reduction and tone? Ongoing in-depth signature research that will be delivered exclusively to PEW Science Members. Thank you for your support! (00:58:35)

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Episode 253 - Dead Air Wolfman Testing, Echo Zulu Defense, OSU, and PEW Anniversary (02-APR-2025)

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Episode 253 - Dead Air Wolfman Testing, Echo Zulu Defense, OSU, and PEW Anniversary (02-APR-2025)

Today’s Topics:

  1. The Silencer Sound Standard is now 5 years old! Thank you for supporting PEW Science all of these years and helping make this the industry standard for silencer sound suppression performance. (00:09:05)

  2. Big thanks to Oklahoma State University! Engineering faculty and students attended our seminar last week – a very welcoming group of people who are learning about fire, explosions, and protecting the public! A great degree program for folks that are interested. (00:30:06)

  3. Sound Signature Review 6.181 – the Echo Zulu Defense X1R556-Ti on the 5.56 standard untuned mid-gas 14.5-in barrel M4A1. Another hybrid design. Let’s dig into the technical talk for this report published last week. (00:42:45)

  4. Sound Signature Review 6.182 – the Dead Air Wolfman on the HK SP5 – in both long and short configurations. Prolific submachine gun silencer? Absolutely. Misunderstood? Clearly. Let’s do a quick introduction to this technical report published concurrently with this episode. (01:28:29)

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Episode 185 - Surefire SOCOM556-RC2 on 14.5 Mid and PTR VENT 2 on the MP5 (01-NOV-2023)

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Episode 185 - Surefire SOCOM556-RC2 on 14.5 Mid and PTR VENT 2 on the MP5 (01-NOV-2023)

Today’s Topics:

  1. Sound Signature Review 6.128 – the Surefire SOCOM556-RC2 on the 5.56 M4A1 Mid-Gas with both 3-Prong and WARCOMP! This is the technical discussion covering the white paper published 22-OCT. (00:09:57)

  2. Sound Signature Review 6.131 – the PTR VENT 2 on the HK SP5 (MP5 analog) – introductory discussion for this white paper that is live right now! Purposely Induced Porosity (PIP) technology – does it work? Yeah, apparently. (00:47:32)

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Episode 127 - 9mm Submachinegun Silencers: The GSL Phoenix and the MP5 (24-AUG-2022)

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Episode 127 - 9mm Submachinegun Silencers: The GSL Phoenix and the MP5 (24-AUG-2022)

Today’s Topics:

  1. Member Research Supplement 6.85 – Unsuppressed Subguns; the HK SP5 and SP5K-PDW as Silencer Test Hosts (Public Article) (00:08:11)

  2. Sound Signature Review 6.86 – GSL Phoenix on the MP5! Well, SP5. Regardless, how cool was that? And, third party engineering peer review! What a time to be alive. (00:53:15)

  3. No time for a SCAR update today (we’ll do one on the Mototech SCARburator next time). I updated the website for PEW Science Members. Now you have your own Rankings table, so you can get directly to your articles from the table itself. Thank you for your support, and for your patience! (01:35:41)

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