Beretta M9A3
Battle-Proven Upgrade
IN 2017, Beretta lost against Sig Sauer when the US military chose the Sig P320 as their new standard issue sidearm. Beretta’s entry was the M9A3, an upgrade of the M9 which has been the standard issue sidearm of the US forces for 30 years.
After losing out, Beretta Defence Technologies claimed its M9 pistol is about 10 times more reliable than the US Army’s new Modular Handgun System. Beretta maintains that the new M9 pistols tested at the company’s manufacturing facility in Gallatin, Tennessee, have continued to prove their world-record reliability. Beretta USA completed fourteen consecutive M9 Lot Acceptance Tests (LAT) with an average of only one malfunction in every 19 090 rounds. During this test, 42 M9 pistols fired 210 000 rounds, with resultant reliability “almost 10 times better than the rate of
