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However, there is method in this seeming madness... The Beretta M9N Dolphin is an interesting gun with a history shrouded in rumour and mystery .
According to BerettaWeb, the"DOLPHIN semiauto combat handgun is not an "original" Beretta product, but a custom modification by a small USA manufacturer...seen at a SHOT SHOW, some years ago.
The M9 DOLPHIN is a "closed bolt" pistol (when the gun fires and the slide goes back, only the EJECTION PORT opens, not the whole barrel, as in other BERETTAs). I remember to have spotted somewhere on the web, VERY, VERY LONG TIME AGO, a picture of this gun with a 25 rounds magazine in (as the BERETTA M93-R's one)."
Further conjecture suggests it was a special, produced for the US Navy, maybe even SEAL teams, and that it may be a select fire gun.
However, it is also possible that all this originates from the imagination of a Japanese Model Gun designer, as there is a select fire Marushin Model Gun, which looks like this and I have been unable to find any photographs of any Dolphin which is not an airsoft replica.
Most likely, though, is that this a replica of the special model, briefly produced, for the US Navy after a few 92SBs broke their slides after less than 1,000 rounds.
I found the following on a Beretta forum.
It was after that that they let a R&D contract to explore replacing the slides on all pistols to a solid toped slide. The contract was let to Phrobus who subcontracted Rock McMillan to design and manufacture the test units.
After testing several over 70,000 rounds they were about to make a change to them when Beretta cleaned up their act and quit making the parts in Brazil which was against contract rules.
and this, on another.
A company called Phrobis International developed an enclosed slide with some reinforcements around the locking area. This was done for an order of the US Navy. These slides were tested on a device simulating recoil stronger than the ones due to NATO ammo.
During this simulation, these slides proved more than satisfactory. They resisted more than 77000 manipulations and set a new record.
Unfortunately the US Army killed the project.
