Looks like cops in Sachsen-Anhalt Germany will be turning in their issued Sig pistols for the new Glock 46 

It’s reportedly a rotating barrel locking system that is G45 sized with a thumb safety, 8lb trigger, beaver tail, and mostly Gen 5 features - such as grip texture, front serrations, no finger bumps, integral magwell, etc...

https://www.thefirearmblogDOTcom/blog/2019/02/01/saxon-police-adopt-glock-46/

German State Police Adopt NEW Glock 46

Posted 2 mins ago in Daily News, MIL/LE, Pistols by Matthew Moss with 124 Comments

 

The Glock 46 (Ministry of the Interior Saxony-Anhalt)

The German state of Saxony-Anhalt have announced the adoption of the Glock 46 as their next police sidearm. The new Glocks will replace Saxony-Anhalt police’s current SIG Sauer P6s. The SIG’ have been in service for nearly 30 years and nearly 6,500 new pistols will be needed to replace them. The contract represents the first time a Glock has been adopted as a standard issue side arm by a German police force.

First adopted by in the late 1970s when various German state police forces adopted pistols including  Walther’s P5, SIG-Sauer entered the P225 (which became the P6 when in service) and Heckler & Koch submitted their PSP or P7. After the reunification of Germany in 1990, Saxony-Anhalt state police adopted the P6, replacing their Soviet Makarov PMs.

Saxony-Anhalt state police has around 6,400 officers who are armed so the contract is a significant one. The choice of the Austrian Glock over the German HK, popular with many other German police forces, comes as little surprise as when the Glock 46 first appeared back in 2017, it was described as being specially developed for German police trials.

An earlier photo of the Glock 46 disassembled which first surfaced back in 2017. It shows the new barrel and striker assembly. Some additional changes have been made since.

The Glock 46 was developed to meet a set of very specific German state/federal requirements, known as TR 2008 (Technische Richtlinie für Pistolen im Kaliber 9x19mm der Polizeien der Länder und des Bundes). Which required a trigger pull of more than 30N and and a trigger with between 10 and 15mm of travel. The new Glock 46 has a 35N or 7.9 lbf trigger pull and 11mm of travel.

Externally, it look like Glock’s other Gen 5 pistols but the most interesting feature of the Glock 46 is that, unlike other Glocks, it uses a rotating barrel locking method rather than the standard Browning-style tilting barrel system. The German media stress this is rotating barrel offers better accuracy. It can also be disassembled without pulling the trigger, which was a police requirement, and has a more prominent beavertail frame. The Glock 46 is chambered in 9x19mm and has a 15 round magazine, front slide serrations and a new feature not seen on earlier photos, what appears to be a frame mounted decocker/safety.

The new pistol was successfully tested at the German proof institute in Ulm and was certified in December 2018. Head of the Federal German Criminal Investigation Bureau (BDK), Peter Meißner, said: “We consider it a correct decision in terms of content, that the country has opted for the Glock.” While Wolfgang Ladebeck, of the German police union said: “That’s absolutely a sure-footed weapon, which we hope to never use.”

The contract is reported to be worth 8.6 million Euros or $9.8 million, with the first 2,500 pistols to be delivered during 2019 with fully delivery of over 8,500 pistols expected to be completed by 2021. 

The Glock 46 is not currently commercially available in Europe and there are no plans for the Glock 46 to be released in the US at this time.

Is the N for Newton meters?

Pretty sure it is for straight Newtons - it is labeled N and not Nm or N-m.

They are measuring force, not torque.

Like trigger pull is only measured in lbs... not lbs/ft? Those Germans are very technical 

You think they would have used kilos .... @10X

18 minutes ago, Zeke said:

You think they would have used kilos .... @10X

Newtons and pounds are the correct units of force in the SI and English systems.   Kilo is a mass unit, like the English system ‘slug’, the latter rarely encountered since English system users tend to confuse mass and force. 

And don’t get me started on the English system leading to confusion between mass and volume.   

12 minutes ago, 10X said:

Newtons and pounds are the correct units of force in the SI and English systems.   Kilo is a mass unit, like the English system ‘slug’, the latter rarely encountered since English system users tend to confuse mass and force. 

And don’t get me started on the English system leading to confusion between mass and volume.   

Then why are drugs measured in kilos.

And why is Mass involved? That state sucks!

The new Glock 46 has a 35N or 7.9 lbf trigger pull and 11mm of travel."

Who do they think they are, NYC cops? I hope they shoot better.

4 minutes ago, 45Doll said:

The new Glock 46 has a 35N or 7.9 lbf trigger pull and 11mm of travel."

Who do they think they are, NYC cops? I hope they shoot better.

Did it seriously say lb/ ft?

brb

Ha! 

No, they term it 'pounds of force'. Or to us dumb Yankees. pounds.

Just now, 45Doll said:

No, they term it 'pounds of force'. Or to us dumb Yankees. pounds.

Ya we don’t rilly have a mass thingy 

Soooooooo basically a Glock version of the Beretta Px4 / Cougar

@High Exposurewanna try @Mrs.Zeke px 4

its full-size though