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ed that HWS with magnifier or Elcan Specter DR will be primary optics. For the 11" barrels we went with HWS alone. In the meantime the unit provided us with other sights, such as the Trijicon MRO which were installed on some "shorties". Again, such sights had their pros and cons. Low weight and mounts with adjustable height were definite- ly an advantage - the higher mounts are far more comfortable when shooting with NVGs or gas masks. The 2 MOA red dot reticle was dis- advantageous for shooting on lon- ger distances. Still, MRO is a nice sight for CQB/DA operations and it was used with H&K MP-5 SMGs. Another subject of our studies were the B&T Rotex III suppressors. There were two variants in our ar- mory - short (for 14.5") and long (for 11" barrel). Suppressors are awesome, no doubt. They look great and are just cool. But they increase the length of the rifles, add weight, change the bal- ance, decrease the reliability, increase temperatures and pressures and your gun gets dirty way faster. If you're not using subsonic, they are not suppressing the noise or flash. Sup- pressors heats up very quickly and become clearly visible in thermals. And they affect your zero. From our experience we can confirm that ev- ery time you place/take off the sup- pressor from the barrel you should check your zero. We started looking for a muzzle device which would meet our re- quirements. As you know, there are multiple of them: compensators, flash hiders, blast diffusers, etc. We needed one tool to rule them all. After trials it became obvious that such a device does not exist… We al- ways believed that if there is some- thing we are looking for, first we must check how Yanks solved the problem.We found the Surefire prod- ucts very convincing. After some testing we have decided to choose Warcomp flash hider paired with Warden blast diffuser. In our opinion, Warcomp is a great combination of recoil reductor and flash hider for use in the open areas and excellent for close quarters when combined FIREARMS