Changes: M9

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The M9 is the current standard issue sidearm in use in the U.S. Army today. It is a 9mm pistol with a magazine capacity of 15 rounds. It replaced the 0.45 cal M1911.

Background

The M9 is a light weight, semiautomatic pistol manufactured by Beretta with has redundant automatic safety features to help prevent unintentional discharges. It can be fired in either double or single action mode and can be unloaded without activating the trigger while the safety is in the "on" position. The M9 pistol has a 15-round magazine, and may be fired without a magazine inserted. This weapon can have the hammer lowered from the cocked, "ready to fire," position to the uncocked position without activating the trigger by placing the thumb safety on the "on" position.

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-The '''M9''' handgun, formally Pistol, Semiautomatic, 9mm, M9, is a 9x19mm Parabellum pistol of the U.S. military and is often assigned to [[Ghost Recon]] operators.
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+The M9 is the current standard issue sidearm in use in the U.S. Army today. It is a 9mm pistol with a magazine capacity of 15 rounds. It replaced the 0.45 cal M1911.
-==Trivia==
-===Real-world development===
-It is essentially a mil-spec Beretta 92F, later the 92FS.
+==Background==
-It won a competition in the 1980s to replace the M1911A1 as the primary handgun of U.S. armed forces, beating out many other contenders. Some other models have been adopted to a lesser extent (namely the M11 Pistol), and older, or different, models remain in use in certain niches. It officially entered Army service in 1990 according to the official Army website. It was scheduled to be replaced under an Army program, the Future Handgun System (FHS), which was merged with the SOF Combat Pistol program to create the Joint Combat Pistol (JCP). In early 2006, the JCP was renamed Combat Pistol (CP), and the number of pistols to be bought was drastically cut back.
+The M9 is a light weight, semiautomatic pistol manufactured by Beretta with has redundant automatic safety features to help prevent unintentional discharges. It can be fired in either double or single action mode and can be unloaded without activating the trigger while the safety is in the "on" position. The M9 pistol has a 15-round magazine, and may be fired without a magazine inserted. This weapon can have the hammer lowered from the cocked, "ready to fire," position to the uncocked position without activating the trigger by placing the thumb safety on the "on" position.
-The M9 has been modified as the M9A1, adding, among other things, a tactical rail for the attachment of lights, lasers, and other accessories to the weapon. The U.S. Marines have ordered large numbers of M9A1 pistols in 2006. Additionally, a contract for 70,000 M9 pistols was signed in 2006 by the U.S. military.
 ==Appearances==
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 *''[[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Advanced Warfighter 2]]''
 *''[[Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon: Predator]]''
-==See also==
-{{Weapons-GRAW}}
 [[Category:Pistols]]
 [[Category:US military]]