Pentagon Weapons Testing Office Report on the SIG MHS / XM17

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The DOT&E Annual Report’s apparent statement that, sometime prior to April 2017, the Army directed the ECP as a result of failures during drop fire testing, which resulted in the lightweight components being adopted, is incongruent with previously public descriptions of the same events. As described on Soldier Systems in August 2017, “While the MHS passed DoD’s TOP 3-2-045 test with the trigger currently in the commercial P320, SIG proposed an enhanced trigger via Engineering Change Request E0005.” It is, of course, possible that both parties simultaneously discovered the drop fire issue and further simultaneously and separately directed (on the part of the Army) and requested (on the part of SIG) the ECP to address drop fire test failures. However, it does not explain the DOT&E description of the drop fire issue as apparently being known sometime before April 2017.
Pentagon Weapons Testing Office Report on the SIG MHS / XM17 - Omaha Outdoors

We attempted to film a video with Phil Strader to discuss the P320 upgrade program on the floor of the 2018 SHOT Show, but he declined, stating that there was nothing new to discuss and that everything we needed to know was on SIG’s website.

Pentagon Weapons Testing Office Report on the SIG MHS / XM17 - Omaha Outdoors
 
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