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WEST HARTFORD, Conn., July 20, 2012 \u2014 Colt Defense LLC has been awarded an Indefinite-Delivery\/Indefinite-Quantity contract by the U.S. Marine Corps for up to 12,000 M45 Close Quarter Battle Pistols (CQBP), plus spares and logistical support.\u00a0 The new CQBP is a direct descendant of the iconic Colt M1911 adopted by the U.S. military in 1911 and carried as the primary sidearm through all the major conflicts of the 20th century.<\/p>\n
The CQBP contract is for a five-year period and has a potential value of up to $22.5 million.\u00a0 The CQBP expands on a long history of MARCORSYSCOM re-building original Government-issue 1911s, primarily for use by Force Recon and MARSOC units.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a truly gratifying contract award,\u201d said Gerry Dinkel, President and CEO of Colt Defense. \u201cTo have the 1911 selected again for U.S. Forces 101 years after its initial introduction is just an incredible testament to the timeless design and effectiveness of the Colt 1911.\u00a0 Colt Defense looks forward to another great partnership with the Marine Corps as we renew industry production of the military 1911.\u201d<\/p>\n
The initial Delivery Order on the contract is for 4036 CQBP, plus spares.\u00a0 Deliveries will begin later this year.<\/p>\n
About Colt Defense LLC<\/strong><\/em> WEST HARTFORD, Conn., July 20, 2012 \u2014 Colt Defense LLC has been awarded an Indefinite-Delivery\/Indefinite-Quantity contract by the U.S. Marine Corps for up to 12,000 M45 Close Quarter Battle Pistols (CQBP), plus spares and logistical support.\u00a0 The new CQBP is a direct descendant of the iconic Colt M1911 adopted by the U.S. military in 1911 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":15443,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[58],"tags":[2236,2505,2504,2506],"class_list":["post-15442","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-from-the-industry","tag-colt-defense-llc","tag-cqbp","tag-m45-close-quarter-battle-pistol","tag-u-s-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15442\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.downrange.tv\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nColt Defense LLC is one of the world’s leading designers, developers and manufacturers of small arms weapons systems. The Company has supplied rifles and carbines to military, law enforcement and individual customers throughout the world for 175 years.\u00a0 Our subsidiary, Colt Canada Corporation, is the Canadian government\u2019s Center of Excellence for small arms and is the Canadian military\u2019s sole supplier of the C7 rifle and C8 carbine. The Company maintains manufacturing facilities in West Hartford, Connecticut and Kitchener, Ontario. For more information on Colt Defense LLC and its subsidiaries please visit www.colt.com<\/a> and www.coltcanada.com<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"