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The M9 pistol is a pistol of the U.S. military adopted in the 1980s. It is essentially a Beretta 92F, or 92FS later. It won a competition in the 1980s to replace the M1911A1 as the primary handgun of U.S. armed forces. Some other models have been adopted to a lesser extent (namely the M11 pistol), and older, or different models remain in use in certain niches. It officially entered Army service in 1990. It was scheduled to be replaced under an Army program, the Future Handgun System (FHS), which was merged with the SOF Combat Pistol program to create the Joint Combat Pistol (JCP).
