AK Concepts DNTC AR-15 compensator
There are typically 3 different common types of muzzle devices – flash hiders, comps/ brakes and combinations of the two. A flash hider is designed to suppress the flash coming out of the muzzle, for the purpose of reducing the signature of the shooter to the enemy. Compensators/brakes can be designed to reduce felt recoil, and/or muzzle ‘jump/rise’. This is usually achieved by redirecting the expanding gases leaving the barrel at an angle to the bore. The expanding gases act like ‘jets’, and exert a force on the compensator and barrel. The idea is to figure out how the muzzle moves when the weapon is fired, then engineer the compensator to counteract and reduce that movement as much as possible. Every movement of the barrel requires a corrective/reactive movement on the shooter’s part. Reducing that means less time spent getting back on target or moving on to the next one.