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The Joint Service Small Arms Program', usually just called JSSAP was a program run by the Air Force to select a 9mm Parabellum pistol in the late 1970s and the turn of the decade. Entrants included the Beretta 92S-1, Colt SSP, Smith & Wesson 459, FN DA, FN FA, FN High Power, Star M28, Heckler & Koch P95 and H&K VP70. The Beretta would be declared the winner, but the Army would contest the results. DOD then gives the job to the Army starting in 1981. Ball and hollowpoint 9mm Luger rounds are popular handgun ammunition. ...
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The first Army test resulted in all pistols failing. The standards are lessened and a retest is done, but again, none pass.
By 1983 a new program is started, now called under the XM9 name. These service pistol trials would result in adoption of the Beretta 92F as the M9 Pistol. Note that these later trials did not all have the same pistols competing. The M9 pistol The M9 pistol is a pistol of the U.S. military adopted in the 1980s. ...
Controversy over these trials lead to the XM10 trials- but these were boycotted by some makes, and resulted in the 92F again in any case.
One of the losers from the trial, SIG-Sauer, would have a model adopted in the form of the M11 Pistol in a later competition, though this was not for a joint service handgun. P226 The Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft (SIG)-Sauer P226 is a full-sized, service type pistol originally chambered for 9mm Luger. ...
In the 2000s, a new joint servies handgun was started, the Joint Combat Pistol which was actually the result of a merger of two earlier programs. The Joint Combat Pistol is the name for a US progam for a new military sidearm to replace the M9 Pistol. ...
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