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==Aftermath==

Controversy over these trials lead to the XM10 trials in spring of 1988. These trials were boycotted by most of the arms manufacturers that submitted their designs in prior trials, with the only entrants being the Beretta 92F, slightly improved Smith & Wesson 459 and [[Ruger]] submitting their new [[Ruger P85|P85]]. Both Ruger and Smith & Wesson designs failed the trial perimeters, resulting in Beretta winning again.<ref>{{cite book |last= Neville |first=Leigh |date=2019-10-30 |title= Infantry Small Arms of the 21st Century: Guns of the World's Armies|url= https://wwwbooks.google.ficom/books/edition/Infantry_Small_Arms_of_the_21st_Century/ybcSEAAAQBAJ?hlid=fi&gbpv=0ybcSEAAAQBAJ|publisher= Pen & Sword Books |chapter=Chapter One: Combat Pistols|isbn=9781473896154}}</ref>

In the 2000s, a new joint service handgun was started, the [[Joint Combat Pistol]], which was the result of a merger of two earlier programs: the U.S. Army's Future Handgun System<ref>{{cite web|url= http://www.globalsecurity.org/military/systems/ground/fhs.htm |title=Future Handgun System (FHS)|first=John|last=Pike}}</ref> and [[United States Special Operations Command]]'s SOF Combat Pistol. However, the Army ultimately pulled out of the competition.

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=== Sources ===

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* {{cite book |last= Thompson|first= Leroy |date= 2011-09-20 |title=The Beretta M9 Pistol |url= https://wwwbooks.google.com/books/edition/The_Beretta_M9_Pistol/?id=YVbDCwAAQBAJ|___location= |publisher= Bloomsbury Publishing|isbn=9781849088374}}

*{{cite magazine |author=<!--Staff writer(s); no by-line.--> |date=January 1981|title= Toward a New Hand Gun!!!|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=fJFZtYNBzKUC |url-status= |magazine= Army R, D & A. Volume 22, Number 1 |___location= |publisher=Development and Engineering Directorate, HQ, U.S. Army Materiel Development and Readiness Command|page=1-4}}

*{{cite report |author= United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services. Subcommittee on Investigations|date= 1981|title= Proposed Procurement of 9--MM Handgun by the Department of Defense|publisher= U.S. Government Printing Office|url=https://wwwbooks.google.ficom/books/edition/Proposed_Procurement_of_9_MM_Handgun_by/Xz3qfuC7Y_IC?hlid=fi&gbpv=0Xz3qfuC7Y_IC}}

* {{cite report |author= United States. Congress. House. Committee on Government Operations. Legislation and National Security Subcommittee|date= 1986|title= The Beretta Pistol: Should it be the Defense Department's Standard Handgun? : Hearing Before a Subcommittee of the Committee on Government Operations, House of Representatives, Ninety-ninth Congress, Second Session, June 5, 1986|publisher= U.S. Government Printing Office|___location=University of California|url=https://wwwbooks.google.ficom/books/edition/The_Beretta_Pistol/hCdww_n0NtsC?hlid=fi&gbpv=0hCdww_n0NtsC |access-date=June 4, 2024}}

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