December 21, 2018
The Ultimate Mistake?: Introducing the Gun the U.S. Army Said No To
Why?
by Kyle Mizokami
Key Point: Shooters can take advantage of the research and development that went into further developing the classic Beretta 92 design.
In 1985, the U.S. Army made an abrupt shift, aging fleet of World War II-era handguns for a foreign model. The Italian-made Beretta M92 was classified the M9 handgun and served with the U.S. Armed Forces for more than thirty years. The U.S. Army recently chose a new handgun, the M17 Modular Handgun System, and excluded a new, updated M9A3 from the competition. Although the proposed M9A3 failed to gain traction, it is still available on the civilian market and its improvements, adopted by Beretta for the twenty-first century battlefield, are worth examining.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/ultimate-mistake-introducing-gun-us-army-said-no-39502
