I'll bet a month of my military retirement that in 20 years the M9/M9A1 and the M11 will still be the standard pistols.
Excluding the Special Operations Command who will be mostly using 5.7mm and .45ACP pistols
You may be right, like I said, they have pretty much figured out how to keep the M9 alive, and Beretta has improved it a whole lot also; it's a pretty solid pistol despite what some people may think.
I think one of the better things the military can do is have more than one pistol just like you said, 5.7 and .45, which covers both sides of the spectrum, and seem to be the better performers. Still, I would love to see what kind of cartridge development can be done to improve the body armor performance of the 7.62 To, I think that's a very interesting cartridge.
