Army Selects 10 Commercial Subcompact Weapons for Future Testing

[Thomas D'Arcy McGee]

Army Selects 10 Commercial Subcompact Weapons for Future Testing

Here is a list of sole-source contracts for the subcompact weapons:

•Beretta USA Corporation for PMX subcompact weapon. Amount: $16,000.
•Colt's Manufacturing Company LLC for CM9MM-9H-M5A, Colt Modular 9mm subcompact weapon. Amount: $22,000.
•CMMG Inc. for Ultra PDW subcompact weapon. Amount: $8,500.
•CZ-USA for Scorpion EVO 3 A1 submachine gun. Amount: $14,490.
•Lewis Machine & Tool Company for MARS-L9 compact suppressed weapon. Amount: $21,900.
•PTR Industries Inc. for PTR 9CS subcompact weapon. Amount: $12,060.
•Quarter Circle 10 LLC 5.5 CLT and 5.5 QV5 subcompact weapons. Amount: $24,070.
•Sig Sauer Inc. for MPX subcompact weapon. Amount: $20,160.
•Trident Rifles LLC for B&T MP9 machine gun. Amount: $36,000.
•Zenith Firearms for Z-5RS, Z-5P and Z-5K subcompact weapons. Amount: $39,060.

Anyone have an opinion, which one is best? I am surprised there is no Heckler & Koch UMP or Heckler & Koch MP7 entry!

 

[greentips]

Army Selects 10 Commercial Subcompact Weapons for Future Testing




Anyone have an opinion, which one is best? I am surprised there is no Heckler & Koch UMP or Heckler & Koch MP7 entry!

This is just a buy for things to study and looked at, ie " inform current capabilities for the Capability Production Document", someone is using taxpayers' money to buy toys so they can let a bunch of people shoot these guns, do a bunch of surveys and write a report.

 

[Kingjenky]

Why are the products so expensive.?

 

[Kratos]

Why are the products so expensive.?

In a service contract they have training, parts, maintenance, and future support priced in.

Some interesting choices, wouldn’t mind doing up a survey or report if I had some range time with that list.

 

[bfiles]

why are the products so expensive.?

tp9/mp9 $36,000!?!?!?!? You got a steal from me then

 

[onetwentyish]

I suspect they also intend to have a sample size much larger than just one of each... Probably more like 5 or 10 of each.

 

[Ebola]

I like the Beretta PMX.

 

[tjhaile]

This is just a buy for things to study and looked at, ie " inform current capabilities for the Capability Production Document", someone is using taxpayers' money to buy toys so they can let a bunch of people shoot these guns, do a bunch of surveys and write a report.

This seems to be the most reasonable explanation. My prediction is that this program will go nowhere, just like the Interim Combat Service Rifle program, and for the same reason. Pistol-calibre SMGs are obsolete for military use, just as are full-power rifles for general issue.

 

[greentips]

This seems to be the most reasonable explanation. My prediction is that this program will go nowhere, just like the Interim Combat Service Rifle program, and for the same reason. Pistol-calibre SMGs are obsolete for military use, just as are full-power rifles for general issue.

Some of these blogs are just sensationalizing things, probably to stir interests in products. One of these writers probably is subscribed to US government contract database and got an alert, so he/she wrote a fluff piece for traffic

Of course this is going nowhere. Somewhere someone has got money in the budget so they went to town with the money and write a report for their own interest. It is ridiculous this is anything semi important and really related to any procurement decision, come on, they even include some crappy turkish MP5 clones. They are actually spending 50K on MP5 clones.....some one should beat the guy with a stick.

He probably got a lot of stickers at SHOT SHOW......