If this report is that old (1984 ?), then it has no relevance. Materials and manufacturing techniques have changed a lot in 25 + years.
Have they significantly redesigned either pistol?
If this report is that old (1984 ?), then it has no relevance. Materials and manufacturing techniques have changed a lot in 25 + years.
The Air Force pushed hard for the XM-9 program, mostly because they wanted a more compact 9mm handgun. The Army had no real interest in the program, but Congress insisted. Ultimately the Air Force would get their compact 9mm as a Sig P228 over the Beretta Centurion. Kinda an odd turn of events.
Have they significantly redesigned either pistol?
Since then I believe the Beretta has gone through a few improvements, such as the thicker firing pin to prevent the rear of the slide from coming off, and I thought something to do with the slide to reinforce it? The Sigs, since I think the early 2000's, the slide is completely different. Except for the P228R and P225 (folded/pressed slide w/ removable breech block, the old style), all the new P220/226/229's and their variants have a CNC'd slide (again, IIRC, but not 100%), and now an external extractor for all of them. The frames are probably similar, but the other half is completely different, and in many ways improved.
The most reliable 1911's are the cheap rattle trap ones, lol...That really stuns me about the 1911A1 having such trouble. The first one I built (an econo rattle trap) went 500 rounds without oil or cleaning and no malfunctions...
18) Beretta USA at the time purchased the pistols from Italy for $178.50, and sold them at a retail price of $515.
Insane markup.
...$4.2 million dollar penthouse suite, etc.
That really stuns me about the 1911A1 having such trouble. The first one I built (an econo rattle trap) went 500 rounds without oil or cleaning and no malfunctions and is now at 2100 rounds with nothing but field strip cleaning and no malfunctions.
With the tests being swayed a little, would it have been possible that the test 1911's were tampered with a little to make them give shoddy results?
Don't forget the expensive "girlfriends", and also AVgas for the Gulfstream. That's how we roll.
Silly peasant ... you don't put Av-Gas in a jet engine. You use Jet A.
Hey whadda I know. I'm the one in the back with the girls, you're the one that gases it up and flies the damn thing! Now Po' me anotha gin n tonic!
The Air Force got us straddled with the M-16 because the Air Force General wanted a light weight weapon for his security types. Look how many troops are currently carrying M14s in battle.