Hooded Muzzle Brake Flash Suppressor

A hooded muzzle brake for dissipating a recoil force created by the discharge of a firearm having a muzzle, while substantially decreasing the noise heard by the shooter, resulting in a reduced muzzle flash signature and the attendant dust cloud generated by typical muzzle brake devices for use in the field or military applications. The muzzle brake is an enclosed device with at least one opening radially disposed from a central bore. The radial opening(s) help to dissipate recoil force-causing gasses away from the muzzle end of a firearm with limited reflection of gasses back towards the shooter since the gases are contained by the hood of the muzzle brake in the expansion chamber(s). The Hooded muzzle brake may have more than a single expansion chamber to allow the hot gasses to expand internally, compressing the oxygenated air within, allowing any unburned gunpowder to burn more completely during a short expansion and cooling before being diverted 90 degrees and released less explosively out the front of the muzzle brake through forward facing gas port(s) and the muzzle and away from the shooter. This metered delay of the expanding combustion gasses decrease the perceived recoil, the muzzle flash signature, dust cloud signature blown into the air associated with traditional muzzle brakes, the amount of gas reflected back toward the shooter, and the amount of noise the shooter hears.