Advanced Rifle Integral External Suppressor (ARIES) system
Shooters Depot have developed an interesting suppressor design called the ARIES system. The actual suppressor is held two inches ahead of the muzzle by a free floating over-barrel heat sink.
The Carbon Fiber heat shield tube attaches to the threads in the back of the barrel (by the receiver) and the front of the tube has 4 metal protrusions to keep the tube aligned. These protrusions are touching the barrel also working as an effective stabilizer for the barrel's harmonics and the extended tube is also working as a flash hider when the suppressor is not attached. The major benefit of the system is that the suppressor is attached to the threads inside the tube and stays 2 inches away from the barrel, not adding ANY weight to the muzzle (the weight is transferred to the thread near the receiver) so there is NO POINT OF IMPACT CHANGE.
This design does not come cheap with prices starting at $2500!
Big thank you to Jesse for the link.
I do wish that surpressor manufacturers would put up some sort of decibel info when describing their new products. No offence, but with a You Tube video, even unsurpressed weapons don’t sound that loud.
I’m sure the A.R.I.E.S. is a great system, but I have no idea how well it eleminates noise or how it compares to other surperessors.
Seems quite effective, although i don’t like carbon fiber on anything I’d use in battle. When i used to play paintball i spent good money on a very light-weight carbon fiber barrel. Half way through a match I face planted and snapped the end of my brand new barrel off. Carbon Fiber is a great way to save weight, and look trendy, but in my experience it doesn’t have a place around barrels. I do like the design of this suppressor, although I’d be a little worried about a piston driven AR interfering with that barrel shroud, but maybe they thought of that I don’t know.
I can’t imagine this method can hold the suppressor anywhere near the same tolerance as directly to the muzzle.
The latest suppressors have been getting quieter because they have a tighter bore. Without baffle strikes I would think this method would almost have to be louder than attaching to the muzzle. Not to mention the likely hood of gas escaping between the muzzle and can without a threaded mount.
And for what? No poi shift? My .308 suppressed is a .5MOA shift, it’s not a big real world deal. The better rifle cans now have indexing and adjustment just for POI shift, or are so light it doesn’t matter, they are way cheaper than this, and they can still be used on all your rifles.
Unless this thing metered in the high 120dbs / low 130dbs, I’ll stick with a normal can.
SpudGun,
Even db numbers don’t mean anything. It’s like dyno numbers on engines, they are bull for absolute numbers, only for comparison data.
However, for comparison data they work well. To get a real number you need to compare two or more products at the same time.
It would be possible to meter a suppressor at sea level on a rainy day in the summer, and another indoors across the country and you could get completely different results. THAT, and mfgs LIE.
There is a site that offers reviews, however I’m getting more and more skeptical the guy is impartial so I will not list his site here.