Army shopping this month to replace the Beretta (No, really…)
Later this month the U.S. Army will be meeting with a number of firearms makers to see what the industry has in mind for Big Green’s first new pistol in almost 30 years.
Called the Modular Handgun System (MHS) program, the Army is looking to replace some 239,000 M9 and several thousand M11 pistols. These guns, the Beretta 92-F and Sig Sauer P228 respectively, have been the standard military sidearm used by the Army since 1985, replacing the much-loved (but worn out) M1911s that the military had stockpiled from a half-dozen manufacturers during World War Two.
The 9mm M-9 service pistol (USMC M9A1 version seen here) is the U.S. military’s current side-arm of choice. For now
Is this just going to be another Beretta?
Although the Marines recently bought some updated M9A1 Berettas (basically the Model 92 with a rail on it and a 17-shot magazine), they want something that is not the 92 moving forward, saying that it doesn’t meet the Army’s MHS requirements.
Read the rest in my column at Firearms Talk
That pic is not M9A1, it is M9 with a rail adapter. Old post I know but details still matter to new eyeballs