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SIG Sauer M17
The SIG Sauer M17 and M18 are service pistols derived from the SIG Sauer P320 in use with the United States Armed Forces.
When the requirements were formulated for a new handgun for the U.S. Army, one of the tenets of the proposal was that an existing model handgun was desired to fulfill the requirements laid out in the Modular Handgun System Request for Proposal, known as the XM17 Procurement.
SIG Sauer submitted a P320 with a number of modifications for the XM17 Modular Handgun System competition.
The Modular Handgun System has self-illuminating tritium sights for low-light conditions, an integrated rail for attaching enablers and an Army standard suppressor conversion kit for attaching an acoustic/flash suppressor. Every M17/M18 handgun is test fired before leaving the factory with 13 rounds -- three to break in the weapon and ten to test accuracy.
Though the pistol remained chambered in 9mm NATO rather than a larger caliber, the contract allowed the Army and other services to procure SIG Sauer's proposed XM1152 Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) and XM1153 Special Purpose/Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP) ammunition.
The ammunition is a "Winchester jacketed hollow-point" round; similar in appearance to the Winchester PDX1 round but with some differences to the design of the hollow-point petals.
One round is a standard 115 gr (7.5 g) ball/Full Metal Jacket (FMJ), designated the M1152, the other is a 147 gr (9.5 g) Special Purpose/Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP) round designated the M1153.
Olin Corporation (Winchester Brand) received a contract to produce approximately 1.2 million rounds of the ammunition.
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SIG Sauer M17
The SIG Sauer M17 and M18 are service pistols derived from the SIG Sauer P320 in use with the United States Armed Forces.
When the requirements were formulated for a new handgun for the U.S. Army, one of the tenets of the proposal was that an existing model handgun was desired to fulfill the requirements laid out in the Modular Handgun System Request for Proposal, known as the XM17 Procurement.
SIG Sauer submitted a P320 with a number of modifications for the XM17 Modular Handgun System competition.
The Modular Handgun System has self-illuminating tritium sights for low-light conditions, an integrated rail for attaching enablers and an Army standard suppressor conversion kit for attaching an acoustic/flash suppressor. Every M17/M18 handgun is test fired before leaving the factory with 13 rounds -- three to break in the weapon and ten to test accuracy.
Though the pistol remained chambered in 9mm NATO rather than a larger caliber, the contract allowed the Army and other services to procure SIG Sauer's proposed XM1152 Full Metal Jacket (FMJ) and XM1153 Special Purpose/Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP) ammunition.
The ammunition is a "Winchester jacketed hollow-point" round; similar in appearance to the Winchester PDX1 round but with some differences to the design of the hollow-point petals.
One round is a standard 115 gr (7.5 g) ball/Full Metal Jacket (FMJ), designated the M1152, the other is a 147 gr (9.5 g) Special Purpose/Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP) round designated the M1153.
Olin Corporation (Winchester Brand) received a contract to produce approximately 1.2 million rounds of the ammunition.