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New airsoft muzzle flash technology?

Seen this earlier on facebrick... Still on the fence bout this. I'm just not sure if the flare looks right. Real steel flare is more burst of gasses look whereas this looks a little strobey to me. It might just be the cam doesn't pick it up very well or something. Ideally I'd wanna see this in the flesh

 
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Looks interesting to me. It's got potential, with a bit of work it'd be beautiful.

 
not bright enough to get a tracer working properly, better off putting a tracer unit on the end of your barrel if you want that function.

 
Ofc it's nothing like a real muzzle flash, then again I still thinks it's cool. Not worth £120 though!

 
Pretty pointless to be honest.

 
I looked at this and thought that initially it just looked like a glorified torch that attaches to the front of your barrel, but zero one released a video of it in a dark CQB environment and for a few scenes it actually looked pretty good, but I wouldn't pay £110 for a gimmick-y torch

 
What they should do is make it so it uses Co2 cartridges further in the handguards. Make it release a bit of gas on each shot somehow. Then the shape of the muzzle break can contribute to a bot of recoil?

 
What they should do is make it so it uses Co2 cartridges further in the handguards. Make it release a bit of gas on each shot somehow. Then the shape of the muzzle break can contribute to a bot of recoil?
You could be onto something mateSomebody get this guy a long white coat and some glasses

 
Can't see that working, you'll be creating a deliberately unstable bit of air right in front of the muzzle; that's going to affect your BBs.

 
You could pass the CO2 after the round, just a follow up of 10ms after detection would be sufficient. But it might start to interfere with the next round. At 800 RPM you only have 75 milliseconds between shots and that isn't a lot of time and follow on rounds might very well go through some amount of unstable CO2 so its only going to work well for single shots. Bullets don't get impacted too much by the dirty air as they are so heavy, but a BB could be enormously deflected by turbulent CO2.

 
Does it come with a neon "AIM HERE" sign to stick on your head? Because you'd get rinsed real fast using one of those at pretty much any game owing to the "giving away your position" factor.

No. Just no.

 
I know that Co2 along with the BB would of course interfere with direction of travel. But with a well designed Muzzle break you could theoretically separate the two by having the Co2 escape in a direction around 5 degrees away from the BB should be enough. There are some things which I'd love to see in airsoft but they'd never be improving the performance of any RIF so they are really pointless.

I would love to see a GBBR hybrid with an AEG. Use lowcap mags with a gas resevoir where all the gas goes to the bolt (awesome blowback) and the AEG drives all the BB. (If timed well in a good system could be a really interesting piece of airsoft engineering

 
All these technology yet we still haven't got a hopup/ mag that doesn't spew half a dozen bbs out when you mag change.

 
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Yes we have. PTW, TM recoil, any GBBR.

You can even get a madbull hop up with an o-ring that catches the BBs stuck in the hop.

 
Spewing BBs can either be fixed with a different hop unit that holds the extra BBs or alternatively you can get a magazine with a follower that makes it so every BB is fed and when you reload there are none in the chamber. If you do a tactical reload you'll still loose rounds but not on an empty.

 
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