The Brits just replaced the Hi Power with the Glock for their service pistol. I would be pretty surprised if we did not go with some type of polymer pistol.
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NO NO! SAY IT AIN’T SO!
“The Brits just replaced the Hi Power with the Glock for their service pistol. I would be pretty surprised if we did not go with some type of polymer pistol.”
It would be really easy for someone to just call out a Glock model 21SF, 22, 31, 17 or whatever and that would be a completely acceptable solution. But, that’s just not how the Army does things.
The good thing about the way the Army does things is that companies have to step up their game, jump through a bunch of hoops, and pass a bunch of tests for this particular, astoundingly large, brass ring. The process creates innovations and product improvements, that we all get to enjoy later on. Remember that 40S&W came about because the FBI wanted it to.
Those Hi-powers were great guns.