Why soldiers would rather use regular pistols than Desert Eagles

Why soldiers would rather use ordinary pistols than Desert Eagle

Pistols, such individual self-defense weapons, began to have different design ideas after entering modern times, such as further miniaturization. Self-defense pistols, submachine pistols that can fire fully automatically in emergencies, automatic pistols that take into account both combat and self-defense, and the most unusual one is the high-power pistol marked by its large size and power.

The outstanding representative of this idea is the "Desert Eagle" pistol jointly developed by Israel and the United States. If we want to talk about the big guns in the pistol, it must be the Desert Eagle. Its power is that it can kill an elephant with one shot. It is so lethal, but it was eventually abandoned by the army and no soldiers were willing to use it?

When the name of the Desert Eagle was originally given, it hinted that it was very powerful and could fire 0.50-inch AE bullets. Compared with ordinary pistols, its structure did not use a free bolt type, but used an automatic method. A special bolt is built into the sleeve so that it can fire more powerful bullets. But this also makes the Desert Eagle weigh 5 pounds. This is unique among modern handguns.

Compared with ordinary pistols, the Desert Eagle sells better in the civilian market, but it is not favored in the military. The Desert Eagle's collectible value and bragging rights make it have a larger market. Nearly four times the weight of an ordinary pistol, coupled with an appearance that is a full circle larger than an ordinary pistol, this also creates a unique Desert Eagle.

But the problem is that the shortcomings of the Desert Eagle are as prominent as the advantages, and even worse:

First, don’t think it is powerful, it is a regular army or even a special forces. Because it is too large and weighs almost as much as an assault rifle, the military will basically not choose it as a standard weapon. The Desert Eagle was originally positioned as a hunting pistol, and of course this positioning is neither fish nor fowl.

The second is that the muzzle flash makes an amazing and loud sound. Shooting in low light is like being attacked by a flash-bang grenade. No one would choose to bring a pistol with an alarming muzzle flash and loud sound to the battlefield, especially the special forces.

Third, the maintainability is poor, and the firearm has a high failure rate and is prone to jamming under extreme conditions.

Fourth, the recoil is too great. A gun tester once joked that only people weighing 80 kilograms can use it normally. There are also rumors that someone at the shooting range broke his arm because of it. You can imagine the huge recoil.

Therefore, if you want to equip the Desert Eagle to the army, it is estimated that the most suitable equipment target should be equipped to a tough guy army composed entirely of the governor, Stallone and Guo Dasen, and then this army cannot be used in the army. Fighting in deserts, deserts, severe cold, salt spray and other conditions that can easily lead to poor serviceability of firearms.