Dfariswheel
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Didn´t Colt just make a deal for $22.5mil.with the USMC for a new M45 pistol?
I know that they were all cracking during testing. This was almost 3 years ago now, and just a couple years before that the Marines bought a bunch of Beretta M9A1's to replace the standard M9, so unless someone can chime in I am not sure if they went through with the deal.
The Colt M45 is ONLY for the use of MARSOC Marine Special Operations.
The standard Marines still use the M9 series.
The deal went through and the Marine Spec-ops are using the new Colt M45.
The early cracking problem was caused by a machining problem on prototypes, which was fixed and no more cracks.
This is why firearms (and most anything else) gets prototyped and tested before being bought and issued, just to turn up problems.
I know that they were all cracking during testing. This was almost 3 years ago now, and just a couple years before that the Marines bought a bunch of Beretta M9A1's to replace the standard M9, so unless someone can chime in I am not sure if they went through with the deal.
The Colt M45 is ONLY for the use of MARSOC Marine Special Operations.
The standard Marines still use the M9 series.
The deal went through and the Marine Spec-ops are using the new Colt M45.
The early cracking problem was caused by a machining problem on prototypes, which was fixed and no more cracks.
This is why firearms (and most anything else) gets prototyped and tested before being bought and issued, just to turn up problems.