He said hopefully... LOL, you’re a hoot. I doubt they have that foresight though. I suspect it’ll be 9mm as most (all?) of our current/potential allies use it. A better platform would nice though. The Glock or SIG DAO/DAK would be my choice but then again the military still lives back in the early 1900s where small arms are concerned. Im sure it’ll have to have a manual safety, be all metal and be hard and expensive to maintain. :(
I certainly understand youre tendency toward 357SIg. I like it myself very much with 40 S&W as a second choice then 9mm. I prefer a SIG DAK or Glock.
It's a wonderful caliber. It's high velocity, high energy, relatively small and light weight, and the bottle necked design makes for more reliable chambering (in theory).
It reminds me of the Tokarev round.