Sidearms & Scatterguns Japan's military chooses HK vp9 over Beretta APX and Glock

[Milf Dots]

"On the 6th of December 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that they would adopt a new pistol, the Heckler and Koch SFP9 for the Japanese Self Defense Forces (JSDF). This marks the first time the SFP9 has been adopted by a national military; prior it was only bought by police organizations. The SFP9 is slated to replace the Minebea P9, a license produced variant of the SIG P220.

From the Japanese MoD’s Fiscal Year 2018 budget, we know that the H&K SFP9 competed against the Glock 17 and Beretta APX. Given the recent dominance of Glock at winning contracts worldwide, H&K’s win comes at a small surprise. But a look into Japanese small arms training provides a possible reason why."

Heckler and Koch SFP9: Meet the Gun That Beat Glock (At Least in Japan)

On the 6th of December 2019, the Japanese Ministry of Defense (MoD) announced that they would adopt a new pistol, the Heckler and Koch SFP9 for the Japanese Self Defense Forces (JSDF). This marks the first time the SFP9 has been adopted by a national military; prior it was only bought by police...

nationalinterest.org

 

[myronman3]

I didnt think japan was allowed to have a military?

 

[Milf Dots]

I didnt think japan was allowed to have a military?

Things have changed a bit:

Japan Ends Ban on Military Self-Defense

But the public worries that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is turning his back on the country's post-WWII pacifism

time.com

 

[Cheyenne Bodie]

God save us all.

 

[perttime]

Things have changed a bit:

Japan Ends Ban on Military Self-Defense

But the public worries that Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is turning his back on the country's post-WWII pacifism

time.com

Since 1954....

Japan Self-Defense Forces - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[cruze5]

good choice IMO

 

[sirhrmechanic]

What, no Nambu?

cheers, Sirhr

 

[Blue Sky Country]

JSDF originally was meant to be just a limited civilian police force, with a constabulary armed with nothing more than rifles. That was the original terms decreed by the Allied forces after the surrender of the IJA in 1945.

Cold War politics, and the threat of communist invasions and internal unrest sparked by communist sleeper cells changed that. Today the JSDF is a bonafide military entity with substantial wartime experience in Iraq and Afghanistan, as JSDF units have also been part of the coalition effort from 2001 to 2013. Very recently, they have started a relatively successful recruiting drive aimed at getting the younger members of the video game generation off of their feet and into a military career. In one of these attempts, an anime series titled Gate was made, featuring a modern JSDF-SF expeditionary force entering a fantasy medieval European world via a portal, defeating bad guys and rescuing damsels in distress, while also procuring resources and raw materials for a fledgling Japanese superpower state. The anime had received some criticism from reviewers in South Korea and China, citing the material as propaganda for a new wave of Japanese imperialist aggression. However, the story was expanded to feature both the ROK and the PRC as well as the United States as co-belligerents in the new universe. The series also unveiled many of the latest generation hi-tech military gear used by the JSDF.

 

[Blue Sky Country]

What, no Nambu?

cheers, Sirhr

Could be an even worse Nambu...

One second you are sitting down to a meal, unaware of the pistol you got on your hip. The next second, your balls are blown off...

The Imperial Japanese Army in China have been well known to ditch their Nambu's as soon as they got their hands on the far superior Brownings and Mauser C-96/712's carried by Chinese troops.

 

[myronman3]

see what happens when you are not careful? You up and learn something.