The u.s. defense department has chosen the day of the inauguration of the new president, Donald Trump, and during the international trade fair for sporting arms, the Shot Show in Las Vegas, to communicate that the army of the stars and stripes to replace the Beretta M9. The gun “made in Brescia”, who for 32 years has been in the holsters of military, will be replaced by a weapon of the “Sig Sauer Sa” company born from the merger of the swiss Schweizerische Industrie Gesellschaft and the German Sauer & Sohn and produced in the us factory of the company in Exeter, New Hampshire. The contract, worth more than 580 million dollars, includes in addition to the supply of guns, accessories and ammunition necessary to replace the existing pistols, the M9 of Beretta, of Gardone Val Trompia.
Beretta loses the Usa wins the swiss-German
The process for the new award is the party from afar. The bids have been solicited from the ministry of Defence of the Usa already in 2011, but delays have moved the deadline to February last year. After having received nine proposals, in August of 2016 have been nominated three finalists, among which, once again, there was the Beretta, and then at the end she checked the Sig Sauer. “The details of the productions and the funds necessary for the purchase, we read in the press release issued by the Army Contracting Command, Picatinny Arsenal, New Jersey – will be determined with each order”. The date of conclusion of the contract scheduled for January 19, 2027, but already by the end of this year, the first copies will be distributed by the company of passport to the swiss headquarters, and German. Sites in the u.s., specializing in the field, give as the most accredited hypothesis that the choice has fallen on the evolution of a model a lready used by one-third of american cops.
new orders of Beretta
Lose a job by more than 580 million dollars in ten years is certainly not the pleasure but the company of Gardone Val Trompia, has recently closed important contracts like the one with the argentine Government, which provides an order of 150 thousand assault rifles Arx 200 and pistols Px 4 that will be at the disposal of the armed forces and of the police of Buenos Aires. More recently, the Beretta group has signed with the government of Warsaw for a supply of sniper rifles of the Finnish Sako, the company detected by the holding valtrumplina already in 2000.
A contract was won after knocking out the competition of a Polish company: the Zm Tarnow. An order from 7.6 million with deliveries starting from this year. Also the Italian army has received 432 assault rifles Arx 200, the same selected by the government of Buenos Aires, and ordered in 2014 for a total value of 2.5 million. It is then these days the publication of the ministry of Defence, the two-year program of purchases that could provide a second batch of rifles to the value of 3 million euros.
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January 21, 2017 | 09:07
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