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![]() 32 caliber pocket pistols to their officers, whereas the US and UK militaries favored big revolvers and/or big semi-auto pistols in calibers beginning with a ".4" The Germans, having observed this, and suspecting (correctly) that close quarters battle was going to be commonplace in the next big war, created the perennially popular 9x19mm pistol cartridge, which is still in use by NATO and many governments around the world. ![]() Which is why so many European armies prior to NATO issued tiny little. In some other militaries-the UK and US militaries come immediately to mind-due to 19th Century colonial warfare and warfare against the Plains Indians, the pistol was regarded as a vitally important instrument of close quarters combat. In many European militaries prior to World War II, the pistol was symbolic of a commissioned officer's authority it meant that if he drew it in battle, its purpose was to shoot one of his own soldiers for failing to obey orders, and the idea of actually using it to shoot at the enemy seemed in these military establishments rather strange. ![]() Note that there are, for historical reasons, some rather different attitudes in different militaries about these. Fulfilling functions from purely ceremonial to close-range self-defense to "fighting your way back to your rifle," pistols offer fair firepower at short range and are among the lightest, most portable firearms. The most common "sidearm" in modern military service is some model of semi-automatic pistol with a detachable magazine. ![]() This will be split into weapons a soldier can carry and weapons that need a vehicle to transport them (or are a vehicle themselves). 1900 or later) land battlefield, be it forest, desert or urban. ![]() The sort of weapons one finds on a modern (i.e. ![]()
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