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HK Ultimate Combat Pistol

The Ultimate Combat Pistol (UCP), also known as the HK P46, is the most recent development of famous German company Heckler und Koch. The development of UCP has been started on request from German Armed forces in 2003, and this pistol is intended to become a companion to HK MP7, which is also is under serious consideration for some counter-terrorism forces in Germany and abroad.

The UCP is the companion sidearm to the H&K MP7 submachine gun, using the same 4.6 x 30 mm bottlenecked cartridge. The UCP operates on the delayed blowback operating principle. The exterior design of the UCP appears to be borrowed from the Heckler Koch P2000 pistol, and include ambidextrous controls, exchangeable back straps, and a MIL-STD-1913 Pica tinny type rail system for the attachment of accessories. Like the HK Universal Self-loading Pistol and P2000 series of handguns, the trigger mechanism is reported to be modular and capable of different

So far not too much information is accessible on Ultimate Combat Pistol. At the current time it seems that Heckler & Kochand and German army started initial trials of the handgun.