Testing of M9 replacement to start next year

[BjornF16]

Pistols suck at ending fights unless you get a good head shot most of the time, or saturate the center of chest with a Bill Drill. It's about time they looked at getting rid of the M9-what an abortion of colossal proportions. In the SF CQB course, they break about 3 locking blocks per day, but again, they are running 500rds through each blaster per day.

Glock would be an easy fix, but I like the M&P. A lot of units have been using .40 S&W for a while now, believe it or not. I would prefer a certain cartridge, but there's no way they will even entertain it-it makes entirely too much sense for a military sidearm and potential PDW system. (7.62x25 or 6.5x25)

As to pistols in an offensive CQB environment, way too little firepower. 5.56 carbines have less over-penetration because of frag threshold. CAG figured this out decades ago, and started dumping the MP5's in favor of Colt Commando carbines for CQB.

From Wikipedia:

The 7.62×25mm Tokarev cartridge is a Russian bottle-necked pistol cartridge widely used in former Soviet and Soviet satellite states, China and Pakistan among other countries. The cartridge has since been replaced in Russian service by overpressure versions of the 9×19mm Parabellum.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7.62x25mm_Tokarev

Strange the russkies would dump it for 9mm +P