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Originally Posted by Daimler1989
..... and the Mogadishu airplane highjacking - with the GSG 9 (German Border Police Special Team) storming the plane armed with their old SIG 210-4 in 9mm, they had nothing but only FMJ, HPs being banned as "terrorist ammo" and DUM-DUM bullets.
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Actually, by the time of Mogadishu 1977, they were a little bit further. The old Sig was retired, and the GSG-9 used S&W K- and J-frame revolvers as well as the HK P9S. In one of the few photos from the plane right after the assault, you can see a trooper’s HK over the body of one of the terrorists. And the commander Ulrich Wegener’s Modell 19 is on display in the “Haus der Geschichte” (museum) in Bonn.
The GSG9 also was able to use Dynamit-Nobel’s Action 1 bullets, an all-alloy expanding design, at Mogadischu. But they were the exception. Not until the early 2000s did German states start issuing expanding bullet ammo for general service.