Posted on 01/19/2017 10:22:37 PM PST by iowamark
The U.S. Army on Thursday awarded Sig Sauer a contract worth $580 million to make the next service pistol based on the company's P320 handgun.
Sig Sauer beat out Glock Inc., FN America and Beretta USA, the maker of the current M9 9mm service pistol, in the competition for the Modular Handgun System, or MHS, program.
"We are both humbled and proud that the P320 was selected by the U.S. Army as its weapon of choice," Ron Cohen, chief executive officer of Sig Sauer, said in a statement to Military.com here at SHOT Show, the world's largest gun show, taking place this week in the city.
"Securing this contract is a testimony to Sig Sauer employees, their commitment to innovation, quality and manufacturing the most reliable firearms in the world," Cohen added.
The Army launched its long-awaited XM17 MHS competition in late August 2015 to replace its Cold War-era M9 9mm pistol.
"By maximizing full and open competition across our industry partners, we have optimized private sector advancements in handguns, ammunition and magazines, and the end result will ensure a decidedly superior weapon system for our warfighters," Army Acquisition Executive Steffanie Easter said said in a press release...
(Excerpt) Read more at military.com ...
(CNN)After a long and much-criticized search, the US Army has chosen Sig Sauer to produce its next generation of handgun, eventually replacing the current standard issue sidearm, the Beretta M9 pistol."Following a thorough operational test, fielding of the modular handgun is expected to begin in 2017," the Army said in a statement announcing the decision Thursday. The M9's three decades of service since 1985 has occasionally made it the subject of derision among members of the armed forces.
"The joke that we had in the military was that sometimes the most effective use of an M9 is to simply throw it at your adversary," Sen. Joni Ernst, a former officer in the Iowa Army National Guard, said last week during the confirmation hearings for Ret. Marine Gen. James Mattis to be secretary of defense.
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Oh well. Nice gun. I have P320 full size and subcompact, both 9mm.
Obama strikes again. /s
Is this manufactured in the U.S.?
Seems fishy the decision coming down less tha 24 hours before Trump is sworn in.
That’s a massive contract.
I’ll bet he would have gotten a better price.
That was an Army Times article, which, it turns out, is not allowed to be posted on FR.
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Thank you. I looked it up.
I am glad to see our citizens will be working to produce these weapons.
What is wrong with the 1911?? It’s made in America.. From a good old Reliable Company..
>>What is wrong with the 1911?? It’s made in America.. From a good old Reliable Company.<<
Too big a gun for the ladies and homos.
The 1911 pistols in service were plumb wore out. So they had a field trial. Somebody made the decision they should/had to go with a NATO round, meaning .45 was out, and 9 mm was in. Then, politics got involved, too, in the ultimate selection. Also, the claim was made that recoil was too much in the .45 though stopping power wasn’t an issue anymore. Apparently.
5.5 lb trigger and DAO with no manual safety.
Hmmm. I’d rather have a P229 DA/SA with 9.5/4.5 lb trigger. Less room for shooting your foot IMO, but then, I don’t own any pistols with manual safties...
Great choice. Sig Sauer is my sidearm of choice. P250.
I want a P210. Or dual HK PM13s.
Colt and S&W sold their souls to the anti-gun left. Hardly a surprise a US company didn’t qualify since we have been so neutered in the Obamanation. Since we are forced to go elsewhere for sidearms I would have gone for CZ. A fantastic firearm with NATO designation.
How ironic anti-gun Europe provides our military sidearms. Reminds me of one of the final scenes of “Band of Brothers” where the German Colonel is allowed to keep his Luger sidearm even after surrender. Now, the Obamanation defense force is begging Germany (HK, Sig) Austria (Glock), Italy (Beretta) to provide the USA with sidearms.
AND Obamanation picks Sig. I guess Ruger, Para, and Kimber didn’t give enough to the Obamanation library. And heaven forbid we pick an Israeli firearm....
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Heavy. Rusty. Not enough bullets.
I know the 1911 is a beloved and comfy handgun. It is obsolete with modern designs. That poor XD (at the bottom on the local lake), shot perfectly, was 1/2 the weight as the other Kimber at the bottom of the same lake, and had twice the firepower in the same foot print.
I sort of expected this candidate would be selected: the big selling point is the modular sub-reciever which is the serialized component, allowing the soldier to select one of several grip frame choices. The polymer grip is just a shell that enshrouds the metal reciever that contains the firing mechanism.
Its a novel idea and is probably “the way of the future” in handgun design. Unfortunately I held one of these new Sigs and it felt like a top heavy problem pistol. Notice how low the web of the hand sits when the pistol is gripped. Every other sidearm designer has been engineering their pistols to reduce the bore axis to grip orientation as much as possible but the Sig 320 feels like a throwback to the old 1980s-era Smith and Wesson automatics where the slide and sight picture is oriented three inches higher than the web of your hand. This diminishes the natural pointability of the pistol and also enhances it’s perceived recoil on firing.
I don’t know if it will make for a particularly accurate sidearm. The DAO striker with a 6 pound break intended for safety’s sake due to no mechanical safety isn’t going to really help accuracy either.
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