{"id":4619,"date":"2019-06-28T12:08:49","date_gmt":"2019-06-28T12:08:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/candrdigital.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/hk-mk23-socom-45-development\/"},"modified":"2020-07-22T14:42:42","modified_gmt":"2020-07-22T19:42:42","slug":"hk-mk23-socom-45-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/hk-mk23-socom-45-development\/","title":{"rendered":"H&#038;K Mk23 SOCOM .45 Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1lJeTkgMKqo?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! <a href=\"http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The H&#038;K Mk 23 pistol was developed in the 1990s for the US Special Operations Command and US Navy. The goal was to produce an &#8220;offensive handgun&#8221; that could serve as a primary armament for a special forces operator as well as a backup arm. It was required to be no more than 12 inches long, fit a suppressor and aiming module with laser and illumination options in both visible and IR spectrum, have at least 10-round magazines, chamber .45 ACP (specifically a 185gr +P loading), and pass a 30,000 round endurance test. <\/p>\n<p>Only two companies were able to supply acceptable initial pistols; H&#038;K and Colt. The Colt pistol failed to pass the 1st phase testing. H&#038;K presented a gun based on the recently-developed USP design,  was ultimately chosen as the project winner; adopted as the Mk 23 pistol in 1996. The testing this pistol went through during development is really quite remarkable.<\/p>\n<p>Contact:<br \/>\nForgotten Weapons<br \/>\nPO Box 87647<br \/>\nTucson, AZ 85754<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>http:\/\/www.patreon.com\/ForgottenWeapons Cool Forgotten Weapons merch! http:\/\/shop.bbtv.com\/collections\/forgotten-weapons The H&#038;K Mk 23 pistol was developed in the 1990s for the US Special Operations Command and US Navy. The goal was to produce an &#8220;offensive handgun&#8221; that could serve as a primary armament for a special forces operator as well as a backup arm. It was required to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2019\/06\/28\/hk-mk23-socom-45-development\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">H&#038;K Mk23 SOCOM .45 Development<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":4620,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4619"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13583,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4619\/revisions\/13583"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4620"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}