Hide Your Wallet: Strategic Sciences MFMDs Are Coming

Back in April of 2024 I went to a hush-hush military event that was all about enhancing lethality for special operations forces. This was a range event with live fire demonstrations from all sorts of different companies ranging from small guys to the largest household-name military contractors in the world. We’re talking armed drones, missiles, breaching charges, gatling guns, advanced mortar technology, insane optics systems, and way, way more.

I saw the absolute craziest stuff there…the cutting edge of lethal military technology. The sorts of things that couldn’t show up on th Future Weapons TV show for another few years (if that great show was still on the air).

One of the things I saw was the MFMD — Multi-Function Muzzle Device — from Strategic Sciences, and it left a huge impression on me. I was very, very impressed.

Looking more like an artifact from the movie Stargate than something that attaches to your firearm, the truly revolutionary MFMD is a flash hider, suppressor, and muzzle brake all in one. It’s a high-flow, baffleless design that controls and redirects muzzle gases rather than containing or capturing them.

The MFMD nearly completely eliminates the addition of any additional backpressure into the firearm system while at the same time eliminating flash as completely as anything available.

Many of the MFMD units are modular and are available as just the MD (muzzle device) or as an MD plus SD (suppressor device) or SDX (suppressor device extended). The SD or SDX can be added quite quickly to the business end of the MD. Yes, in the case of an MD+SD(X) MFMD model, both units are considered silencers (two serial numbers, two registrations).

All models attain sub-140 dB performance on their intended host firearm(s). Generally speaking, an MD model is designed to be as short as it can be while just meeting this sound volume level threshold. Then the addition of an SD(X) increases sound suppression even further.

In no world did I think it was possible to run a suppressor that adds only 0.62 inches to the length of my rifle. That’s insane.

At that military event I heard a handful of different rifles fired with an MFMD attached, from 5.56 to 338 Norma Magnum. I was floored by the suppression performance. Some of those magnum sniper calibers sounded like 300 Blackouts. Truly incredible stuff.

The good new is, at least some models of Strategic Sciences MFMDs are about to be available on the civilian market. Like I said up top, though, you may want to hide your wallet. The least expensive models in the lineup (5.56 and 300 BLK) will start at $1,799, and go up fairly quickly from there to a bunch of MFMDs between $3,000 and $4,000. Then a couple of ’em get dangerously close to and even exceed $10,000.

Worse yet, we have a loaner on the way for review. Keep an eye out for that video and article in the near future, though if my experience from that event is any hint of what Dan and I will experience with this thing on the range, it just might be the worst news all of our wallets have had in years.