Chapter 3955: Desert Warrior Pistol

Lin Rui smiled and picked up the gun, and explained to Bamley. "In 1907, the U.S. military began bidding for the development of .45 large-caliber revolvers and semi-automatic pistols as its new-generation standard pistols.
The well-known Colt Company also participated in this tender, and the M1910 semi-automatic pistol submitted by it passed the selection test with its simple structure, sturdiness, durability, safety and reliability.
Under the request of the US military for further improvement, the new Colt sample gun participated in the new round of US military pistol selection in 1911, and with its outstanding performance, it defeated all opponents and won the military-standard pistol contract. In the same year, the US military officially adopted this gun and named it the M1911 pistol; it was equipped with troops in April 1912 and became the first semi-automatic pistol equipped by the US military.
This is the traditional model of M1911 pistol. This model of pistol experienced World War II, the Vietnam War. Until 1985, the U.S. military decided to replace the M1911A1 with a 9mm caliber M9 automatic pistol produced by Beretta.
When the Congressional order was issued, the US Marine Corps strongly opposed it, and many special forces in the Navy, Army and Air Force continued to use the M1911 pistol as an auxiliary weapon. Many people believed that the M1911 pistol was the best combat pistol.
Now, various M1911 pistols are still produced by many companies. Although the standard pistol of the US military is a 9mm×19 M9 pistol, in fact, the elite special forces fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan still use the M1911 pistol that is almost identical to the design a century ago. "
"I know a little bit about this, so what's the matter with the Desert Warrior?" Bamley hesitated.
"The so-called Desert Warrior model is a government M1911 pistol produced by Kimber Corporation. It is specially customized for the elite naval task force under the US Special Operations Command, so it has some characteristics that the traditional M1911 does not have." Lin Rui Explained to Bamley.
"I've seen M1911 before, but I don't seem to see any difference." Bamley said in a daze.
"This starts with Kimber. Kimber is a small company established in New York in 1979 to manufacture sports rifles and shotguns.
In 1996, Kimber began to get involved in the M1911 pistol manufacturing field. Initially, its products were produced semi-manually, with low output, high price and high quality, just like Rolls Royce in the field of automobile production.
Due to the excellent quality of Kimber's M1911 pistol, it has established a good reputation in the American gun industry; after several years of development and growth, Kimber has now become the undisputed overlord in the M1911 pistol market.
The type and number of M1911 pistols developed by Kimber Company tops the North American market, and they have become the world's largest manufacturer of M1911 pistols.
Kimber company relies on the excellent production quality of its pistols and high reliability in actual combat. The Desert Warrior pistol is one of them.
You see, the magazine opening of this gun is a bevel to facilitate changing the magazine. The steel beaver-tail grip is a hollow design to reduce the weight of the pistol. There is a small protruding tooth at the bottom of the grip safety to ensure that if the user does not press the grip safety, the trigger cannot be pulled.
Compared with the traditional M1911 pistol, the design of the tail grip safety of the Desert Warrior has been improved. The upper part of the grip safety can completely buckle the knocked down hammer, so as to prevent the falling hammer and sleeve seat from clamping the user's hand holding the gun during shooting.
Moreover, the grip safety of the Desert Warrior is thinner than that of the traditional M1911 pistol, so that the center line of the shooter's grip is closer to the barrel, which can reduce the shooter's perceived recoil and increase the shooting speed and accuracy. "Lin Rui explained to Bamley while pointing at the various parts of the gun.
Bamley nodded at his hearing, he didn't even know what the gun said.
Lin Rui smiled and said, "In fact, these are all details, and you won't be able to see it if you don't look at it. And some invisible features are the real core of this gun."
"Oh?" Bamley asked quickly, "What is it?"
Lin Rui quickly disassembled his pistol, and the fast-moving Bamley was stunned.
Lin Rui pointed to a pile of parts on the table and said, "Some small parts with complex shapes on the Desert Warrior's pistol, such as the hammer, iron block, empty warehouse hook, single shot lever, grip insurance, manual insurance and rear sight, etc. All are manufactured by metal powder molding process.
This processing technology was developed by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration NASA, and was first used in the manufacture of Kimber's 82-caliber edge firing rifle.
This processing technology is to mix chromium alloy steel metal powder with a polymer carrier and inject it into a large mold. During the sintering process, the polymer is precipitated at high temperature, and the remaining chromium alloy steel shrinks to a pre-calculated size.
The molecular density of firearm parts produced by this process is much greater than that of parts produced by conventional production processes. After another heat treatment process, its strength is much higher than that of conventionally produced parts.
The parts of this pistol have a service life of at least tens of thousands of rounds, which is much higher than that of the conventional M1911 pistol. The firearms experts who evaluated this gun used the Kimber Desert Warriors to fire thousands of rounds of various types of ammunition without a single firearm failure.
So you generally say that this is an M1911 pistol, and it is not wrong. But in fact, it is a special model of the M1911 pistol, which is quite rare. "
Looking at Bamley in surprise, Lin Rui fully assembled the pistol and handed it to him. Holding the pistol, he couldn't put it down.
"This is really a good gun, Captain Bamley." Lin Rui smiled.
"Mr. Rick is really knowledgeable. I only know that this gun is an M1911 model. I don't know there is so much attention to it." Bamley was a little overjoyed playing with the pistol in his hand.
"Most people may not know the difference, but we are in this business. Different products have different prices.
If I sell the Desert Warrior as a normal m1911 pistol, or other low-quality imitation M1911 pistols, I will lose my money. "Lin Rui shrugged.
Bamley and the village chief and others laughed together. They thought this arms dealer was at least a sincere man.
Lin Rui took a look at it, and changed the front of the conversation. "It seems that Captain Bamley may have doubts about my identity, so he deliberately asked me a question. In fact, this is no wonder, after all, this is the first time. meet."
Bamley was a little embarrassed, but still shook his head, "This is not entirely true, and I really don't know the origin of this gun."
"Then, let's get back to business. I wonder if you have any needs for arms?" Lin Rui blinked.
Bamley thought for a while and said, "We want American equipment, mainly rifles and grenades, and at best, rocket launchers."
"All American equipment? It's not cheap. Also, I can't give you a big discount for American equipment. Why don't you choose cheaper Soviet Russian equipment?" Lin Rui deliberately probed.