The JHP cartridge is required for use in situations where limited over-penetration of targets is necessary to reduce collateral damage.” In case you didn’t catch it, “Special Purpose” equals “jacketed hollow point.” There are actually four, and they are described in part in government documents as: “Ball, Jacketed Hollow Point (JHP), Drilled Dummy Inert (DDI) and Blank.” While it is pretty obvious what the dummies and blanks are for-I’ll skip them-the uses for the M1152 and M1153 are given as “The Ball cartridge is intended for use against enemy personnel, for training, and for force protection. The ammunition accompanying the M17 includes the M1152 FMJ and the M1153 Special Purpose loads. “We are honored to work with SIG Sauer as part of the MHS contract,” Ron Cohen, president and CEO of SIG Sauer, Inc., said, “Winchester has a long history of supporting our service members, and we are honored to collaborate with them on this project.” military, just as we have for decades,” said Brett Flaugher, president of Winchester Ammunition, when the announcement came in January 2017. “This is a significant opportunity for Winchester to continue its steadfast support of the U.S. And that someone was Winchester, which runs huge quantities of 9x19 mm NATO, 5.56x45 mm NATO, 7.62x51 mm NATO and. If you want to go to the winner’s circle, partner with someone who has been there before. SIG Sauer makes its own ammunition, but at the start of the trials in 2015, it was nowhere near ready for a big military contract. M882 9x19 mm NATO cartridge since the adoption of the Beretta M9 in 1985. ( Winchester Ammunition) for the ammunition-a solid decision as Winchester has been the prime contractor of the U.S. SIG Sauer, the lead contractor on the winning MHS bid, selected Olin Corp. What the Army was looking for, among other things, was a 9 mm load whose projectile would penetrate 14" of ballistic gelatin at 50 meters. One of the RFP requirements was “increased lethality” relative to the existing platform without changing the chambering or increasing barrel length. 45 ACP, might have been adopted-the Army opted to stick with 9x19 mm NATO.
While the original Request For Proposal (RFP) did not specify a chambering-which led to speculation that the. W hile much ink has been spilled on the “kinetic platform” (what most of us would call a “pistol”), when it comes to the adoption of the M17 MHS, there is one aspect that has not received much attention-the ammunition. jacketed-hollow-point bullet, and the M1152 Ball (r.) with a 115-gr. The Winchester loads adopted with the MHS system are the M1153 Special Purpose (l.), with a 147-gr.
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