Characteristics
Overview
Significantly reduces the sound of gunfire, and completely removes any visible muzzle flash.
Put it on your best rifle when you fight after dark and would rather face one group than three. A crew is walking back from Launch Site along the road at night, and you open up on them from the treeline with an assault rifle. Without a silencer, every burst throws a flash that marks your tree and a bang that carries across half the map. With one, they have to work out where the shots come from, and the clan farming nearby may never hear a thing.
It is the sturdy one of the three silencers: 100 durability against 60 for the oil filter silencer and 15 for the soda can, so it lasts an evening instead of a fight or two. The catch is getting it. Even a Level 3 workbench will not make one, and it cannot be researched, so every military silencer you own came from loot or a trade.
It also takes the muzzle slot. If your problem is the spray rather than the noise, a muzzle brake does more for you.
Watch out
Do not recycle a spare. It gives back only a handful of high quality metal, and you can neither craft nor research a replacement.
Recycling
At power grid stage 2 a green recycler works at 60% instead of 50%. Yields depend on the recycler.
