Acoustic & Mechanical Test Engineering
Standardized impulse-noise measurement for suppressors and firearms — MIL-STD-1474 methodology, full per-shot waveform capture, and engineering-grade reports you can put in front of customers, reviewers, and program offices.
Experience spans private industry and government programs across consumer goods, aerospace, and defense.
Suppressor and firearm evaluation using MIL-STD-1474 methodologies with calibrated instrumentation — muzzle and shooter's-ear measurement positions, repeatable rig geometry, documented conditions.
We bring the lab to you. Portable data-acquisition and microphone systems deploy to your facility or range for on-site test campaigns.
Customized instruction on impulse-noise test systems: configuration, calibration, and real-world application techniques for your team.
Physics evaluations beyond acoustics — force, pressure, and temperature testing to support design validation.
Comprehensive analysis of acoustic and mechanical test data, including datasets you've already collected on your own equipment.
Every campaign follows the same disciplined sequence, so results are comparable across hosts, ammunition, and test dates.
Suppressor performance is always reported against a measured unsuppressed baseline on the same host wherever possible — the honest way to state a reduction number.
Headline acoustic metrics, suppressor peak-level reduction, and hearing-hazard findings on a single page — readable by non-specialists.
Every shot tabulated at every microphone position: peak SPL, A-weighted sound-energy fluence, and shot-to-shot statistics.
MIL-STD-1474E hearing-hazard assessment computed on each recorded waveform, with allowable-exposure context.
Host, barrel, ammunition, environmental conditions, and equipment chain documented so the test is reproducible and defensible.
Methodology notes, test campaign write-ups, and answers to questions we hear at the range. Comments are open — moderated before they appear.
Boomstick Diagnostics is built on more than twenty-five years of test engineering across private industry and government programs — consumer goods, aerospace, and defense. That background shapes everything we do: methodology is standardized, results are reproducible, and claims are only made when the data supports them.
Tell us what you need tested.
Suppressor campaigns, baseline characterization, mobile test days, training, or analysis of existing data — we'll scope it with you.