So much for the joint combat pistol?
Army buys 450,000 new Beretta 92s. 20K to go to Iraq.
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February 5th, 2009 at 3:57 pm
Dude, the JCP has been dead for years now. (…and it was DOA as anything other than a SOCOM-only gun, it never would have made it as an across-the-board M9 replacement. It was just a bone to toss to HK ’cause they were all butthurt over the OICW and XM8 flops.)
February 5th, 2009 at 5:43 pm
More the shame. If there was one piece of hardware I hated the most from my time in, it was not the 40-year-old ships, the steam plants, the spare parts that did not exist… it was the gorramed M-9. Craptacular weapon, buoyed by the momentum of governmental bureaucracy.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:01 pm
The Beretta works. It feels good. I guess there’s the whole logistics issue of changing the NATO standard round too. Gotta have a really good reason to do someting like that.
February 5th, 2009 at 6:07 pm
My father in law used the 1911 when he was in the service, and he hated it too. Different strokes I guess. Can’t please everyone. I might say let each person use what they like, but there’s that whole supply issue again. It’s been an issue since the invention of the club, I guess. Some people like a slim, light club and others prefer a thick, heavy one.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:11 pm
My 92FS will serve me until I die.
Further affiant sayeth not.
February 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm
Maybe blessings ought to be counted. They could always have decided go to the FiveseveN with its lightweight polymer frame and ability for the soldier to carry about eleventy-billion rounds of ammunition.
February 5th, 2009 at 9:24 pm
It took 4 different M9s during my qualification for expert with it. One would go down, I would release the mag, put it down, and pick up another from the armorers box next to me. Load mag, rack slide, **release the f-ing safety**, and resume hitting the black 10 ring. I mean really, I can understand a heavy, unreliable, ugly POS being given to us, but I can’t understand a gun that blocks itself from firing after you chamber a round. It’s like it doesn’t want to fight. Has there been a confirmed hostile kill with it even?? Please just give us G17s, and I hate glocks.
February 5th, 2009 at 10:38 pm
20,000 going to Iraq? Well I hope the insurgents get them, so that when they jam up we can kill them easier!
February 5th, 2009 at 11:42 pm
Y’know, that’s f*cking hilarious.
I hate the 92FS, but if there’s one thing I wouldn’t accuse it of, it’s being unreliable on the feeding cycle…