Britain’s almost silent rifle engineering the De Lisle commando carbine

Описание: At first glance it looks wrong: a standard rifle stock, a bolt handle from an old service weapon, and then a swollen tube stretching almost to the muzzle. The proportions are off, the weight is all in the front, and yet when it fires there is almost no sound. This is the story of a carbine built to be heard less than its own bolt.

Wartime planners in Britain needed a tool for a very narrow task: remove sentries, guards, and animals without betraying the presence of small specialised units. Rather than design an entirely new arm, engineers were told to reuse what industry already understood. That meant Lee-Enfield actions, pistol ammunition already in service, and manufacturing that could fit into existing workshops without disrupting higher-priority production.

The result was an integrally suppressed hybrid, combining a modified bolt-action receiver, a .45 ACP barrel drilled with gas ports, and a large baffle stack housed in a permanent steel tube. It was heavy, slow to cycle, and expensive to build, but astonishingly quiet at the muzzle. This film follows its design, testing, and limited service as one of Britain’s strangest carbines.
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