Marine Security Guard students perform rapid-fire exercises on the Department of State pistol qualification course Feb. This is considered one reason for the adoption of the M11 Pistol. Users of this system may have difficulty firing accurately, often forcing the firer to adopt an off axis grip to reach the trigger in double action mode throwing rounds off target. This resulted in the adoption of a variant of the SIG-Sauer P226.Īnother concern is the large circumference grip coupled with a long double-action trigger reach. These incidents also resulted in the Naval Special Warfare Forces seeking "an improved 9mm weapon that (1) can withstand extensive training firings, (2) has a long service life, and (3) provides reliable functioning in life-threatening situations." (GAO NSAID-89-59 p. These failures included both military and civilian Beretta models with very high round counts and provoked a modification in the M9 design to prevent slide failure from causing injuries. Prior to its widespread adoption by the US military, questions were raised in a Government Accounting Office report regarding a number of incidents where slide failures caused injuries to Naval Special Warfare personnel and were later observed in additional testing.
This resulted in two different trials that were more limited, but resulted in the Beretta design being kept (with an update to it happening during the same time frame). Beretta won this competition but there was a new trial, the XM10 competition, in 1988. Another year later, in 1984, the trials started again with updated entries from S&W, Beretta, SIG-Sauer, H&K, Walther, Steyr, and FN. In the new test all the pistols were rejected, and in a second test a year later they were all rejected again. The result, however, was challenged by the Army and new tests were to be done (this time run by the Army rather than the Air Force). In 1980, the Beretta 92S-1 design was chosen over entries from Colt, Smith & Wesson, various Fabrique Nationale de Herstal models, the Star M28, and Heckler & Koch models. The 9 mm round was selected for compliance with NATO standardization.
Air Force, a number of 9 mm pistol designs were trialed in the late 1970s to find a replacement for the M1911. Under the Joint Service Small Arms Program which was run by the U.S. Additionally, a contract for 70,000 M9 pistols was signed in 2006 by the U.S. Marines have ordered large numbers of M9A1 pistols in the last year. The M9 has been modified as the M9A1, adding, among other things, a tactical rail for the attachment of lights, lasers, and other accessories to the weapon. In early 2006, the JCP was renamed Combat Pistol (CP), and the number of pistols to be bought was drastically cut back. It was scheduled to be replaced under an Army program, the Future Handgun System (FHS), which was merged with the SOF Combat Pistol program to create the Joint Combat Pistol (JCP). It officially entered Army service in 1990 according to the official Army website. Some other models have been adopted to a lesser extent (namely the M11 Pistol), and older, or different, models remain in use in certain niches. armed forces, beating out many other contenders.
It won a competition in the 1980s to replace the M1911A1 as the primary handgun of U.S. It is essentially a Beretta 92F (later the 92FS), built to U.S. The M9 handgun, formally Pistol, Semiautomatic, 9mm, M9, is a 9mm pistol of the U.S.