![]() ![]() The company was successful in the 70s, but its further expansion was hindered by Swiss export regulations, forbidding manufacture and sale of firearms beyond the borders of the neutral country. The later weapon uses 5.56 × 45 mm ammunition. In 1953 the Swiss army began ordering 7.5 mm SG 510 battle rifles (Sturmgewehr 57), and starting in 1986, 5.6 mm SG 550 assault rifles (Sturmgewehr 90). In 1949 the army received their first P210 pistols (designated as Pistole 49), replaced in 1975 with P220 (Pistole 75). In the second half of the XX century, SIG became the primary supplier of personal weapons for Swiss armed forces. It was one of the first repeating rifles that reached service and saw combat use. In 1908 the company signed a contract with the Mexican government on the delivery of three thousand of Fusil Porfirio Díaz Sistema Mondragón Modelo 1908. Their designer joined SIG’s Waffen- Department in 1864. Five years later, the Swiss government ordered from Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft eighty thousand repeating rifles with tubular under-barrel magazines designed by Friedrich Vetterli. In 1863, while Poland was in the throes of the January Uprising, SIG received a contract for 15.5 thousand Milbank-Amsler model 1863 in the 10.4 mm calibre. The modified rifle entered service as the Prelaz-Burnand model 1859 rifle. At the same time, the company changed its name to Schweizerische Industrie-Gesellschaft (SIG). Railway manufacturer’s interest in firearms was sparked by an earlier contract on the adaptation of 30 thousand muzzle-loaded rifles to a new 10.4 mm calibre. The competition attracted forty-four firms, including thirty Swiss ones. In January 1860, the company entered the competition for a new Swiss Army firearm. Neher was a talented engineer and metallurgist, Peyer im Hoff was a merchant with extensive rail experience, while the primary investor Moser was a clockmaker that amassed fortune in Tsarist Russia. ![]() Johann Conrad Neher, Friedrich Peyer im Hoff and Heinrich Moser founded Schweizerische Waggons-Fabrik (SWF) with the intent of making railway wagons. The history of SIG Sauer began in 1853 in Swiss town of Neuhausen am Rheinfall. The humorous inscription, citizens enjoying the return of spring The company also holds multiple international trade deals, such as the delivery of 72 thousand automatic rifles to India. SIG P320 entered the service with multiple choice of frame attachments under the names M17 and M18. That gun will be gradually replacing Italian M9 (Beretta 92FS) used since the 1980s. Selection of the modular semiautomatic pistol P320 in the Modular Handgun System competition was the greatest success of the company in recent years. All the newest designs, spearheaded by the flagship P320 and the pocket P365 models are assembled in New Hampshire. Now, European production is limited to selected sidearms, in smaller numbers than across the Atlantic. He introduced new designs and refreshed the offered stock, expanding the American branch into the largest part of the company. That changed fifteen years ago with the appointment of Ron J. American SIG Sauer operations are spread between five locations: Portsmouth, Newington, Exeter, and Epping (with the last place holding the SIG Sauer Academy), and employs around 1100 people.įor a long time of their presence in the USA, SIG Sauer sold weapons of rather medium quality. ![]()
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