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Technomancer's Merlin-1 is an alternate history.
It specifically states that unless they mention it, history runs as it did in our world.
I've made an alt of an alt... Where the chimera veterans of Vietnam decide that, rather than return home to where they're subject to bigotry, they sign on in significant numbers to help keep the filthy Commies from taking over in Rhodesia. They win here too.
It's my my world and I can change it if I want to...
And it's a small change.
In 1956 the United States Army adopts the S&W model 39 (X100 to get technical) as the Pistol, 9mm M4.
Did you have to make it M4? Couldn't you have picked a less common M number?
ReplyDeleteIn 1956, M4 was the next number. I actually researched this looking for missing M's in the series. M3 and M4 are missing from the pistol series, and might have been assigned XM3 and XM4 from the 1954 pistol trials that led to no pistol being adopted to replace the M1911A1.
DeleteThat makes M4 doubly accurate then since it fits the history and the habit of duplicating M numbers. What was issue that used up the numbers before M9 which applies do a dozen different US items
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DeleteM1 is missing, but could be a 25mm Very Pistol Mk 4.
M2 is a 37mm flare gun.
M3 and M4 are missing.
M5 is a 10ga Very Pistol.
M6 and M7 are missing.
M8 is a flare gun.
M9 is the Beretta model 92FS.
M10 is missing.
M11 is the SIG-Sauer P228
M12 is missing.
M13 is a Colt Aircrew Revolver.
M14 through M16 are missing.
M17 is a SIG-Sauer P320 with a full size frame.
M18 is a SIG-Sauer P320 with a compact frame.
M10 would be the guns for the XM10 trials to find a compact gun. That led to the M11. The 459 came close to winning it as the XM10
DeleteI think it's possible that the High Standard T3 and Colt T4 could be the M3 and M4 slots from the '54 trials. The S&W X100 and the Inglis alloy frame Hi-Power were late entries.
DeleteThe second "M9" trial that led to the M11 is even more sordid than the first that gave the M9. Basically SIG complaining they didn't win and getting a second trial where someone came up with a consolation prize of exactly what SIG had entered as an alternative pistol for troops with small hands.
It's one of the reasons we were still using M1911A1's in 1989 in a forward deployed tank unit in Germany.
After how S&W kept getting treated in these trials, I was surprised to see them put in an entry for the XM17 competition.