Military T&E?

[EVP]

I don’t think you need to delete your post. It was a innocent question and the response was very detailed and gave links to those threads. I think it is a good resource for others that maybe had the same questions or did not know.

I know M9s were pulled and tested to failure periodically. Frames were good for about 35K rounds, slides 70K, blocks 22K IIRC?

The M9 slides range went from 5-35Kin the late 80s to 55-95K in the late 90s.

What changed? The guns, the ammo, the testing, or all of the above?

I am curious about this as well purely for education on the m9. You don’t hear a lot about 92 frames cracking.

If any others that have high round counts on Beretta 92s I would like to hear their thoughts.

[medmo]

Am I the only one whose brain read SIG Traverse and Elevation when seeing SIG T&E? This thread is about something completely different.

[DueSpada]

Thanks for bringing this up MikeO. Never a bad idea to get folks looking at the workings of these huge bureaucracies
and the Mandarins that live in a off them.

[DocGKR]

One of the worst procurement debacles and failures to occur in recent times....

Just about everything that could be done wrong was. Very poor test protocols and incomplete testing.

As a result, the best pistol and best ammunition was not selected.

[Dave Williams]

As a result, the best pistol and best ammunition was not selected.

Doc, I'm not up on this, what were the best pistol and ammo?

Thanks