Sure at the cost of a totally new gun. Both the features you are hyping have been around for a century of pistol design. what is really interesting is the way it mounts that “Silly” Red dot. By the way that Red dot will give your average shorter a <50% Increase in combat accuracy and acquisition.
If you really want to improve the average LEO or Mil shooter then give them a Carbine not a pistol. I don’t care if a M4A1, HK416, QBZ95, MP5K with stock or a Glock with a B+T Stock kit that would give you a huge increase in effective fire.
I know but TE.... look it’s a nice product for a race gun. SHOT show does this every year. You get these Wunderwaffe the Hudson H9, Arsenal Strike One aka Archon B, Kriss Vector, Keltech Shotguns. Sometimes they really are worth it. Sometimes the whole thing goes bust. Most of the time it’s a very niche product.
The problem with the standard combat pistol for LEO or Military shooters isn’t the Pistol it’s the shooter. Modern firearms are capable of far more mechanical accuracy than the operator is. The ISPC Shooter can take more advantage of this setup as they are on a calm range shooting as competition.
A Combat shooter is shooting for their life. Under fight or flight, with tunnel vision, an adrenaline high and operating on the reptile brain. This is why Combat long arms and hand guns often have long sponge triggers with a lot of take up because they are intended to prevent accidental shooting or to ensure that the shooter only shoots when they need to. It’s also why Combat rifles are very simple with as few moving parts as possible.
Under stress of combat LEO officers have been found to under estimate the number of shots fired. In Combat Soldiers have been found to over state there accuracy, Often leading to claims of ineffective bullets. After all How could they have missed??? Surely the enemy dragged away the dead or their thick winter jackets stopped the rounds or the bullets just don’t work... Training is a major factor in the effectiveness some tools can assist farther, but from practical reality the best tools to aid are those that make the shooter’s tasks more intuitive. That’s ergonomics like a stock and easy to use controls or sighting systems like red dots that allow the shooter to use both eyes to find and engage targets faster than with the traditional iron sights. Dot sights also work well with suppressors as they often sit high enough to clear the suppressor can.
Because most handgun combat shooters are not able to milk the mechanical accuracy in combat, A hand gun like the Alien is over kill. Something far more simple like a Sig M18, Glock 17, Groch, Qsz 92G, CZ75, hell even the Yeet Cannon will be just about as effective at putting there respective rounds into a target the size of a human torso at combat ranges.
As such the military and LE Agency will choose something cheaper every-time and it’s likely to remain that the Browning tilting barrel will remain the king of barrel types for combat handguns.
Again I say If you really want to try and give the LEO or Military shooter a way up there accuracy give them a carbine with a red dot. Farther I reiterate that if you really want to use the capabilities of the Alien make it a Submachine Pistol. Now combine those two thoughts. Submachine pistols are notoriously inaccurate and for beating up dots with a high rate of fire. One means of trying to fix this has been adding a stock often in the form of a combination holster stock, this comes at the cost of a weaker stock that can cause the holster to be damaged. Most mount low on the pistol exacerbating the muzzle flip issue. If you tried to add a dot the dot is both beat up by recoil and hard to aim keep on target due to the movement of the slide.
A higher mounted side folding stock like the B+T USW and the Dot mounting system already on the pistol would fix those two issues. Of course for combat use a full carbine is far superior. The only place such a weapon as actual military relevance is as a PDW for vehicle crews particularly aviators.
Armored vehicle crews and helicopter crews generally can get away with using a short carbine like a AKS74U QBZ95 even M4A1. But jet pilots in ejector seats not so much. The weapons they have have to be either stowed on their person in their gear or inside a survival kit located under the seat. Now I don’t know the size of the Russian or Chinese seats. I imagine that there seats are the same size and that they wouldn’t be much bigger than the 16”x14”x3.5” of the US models. And that is a problem. because in there conventional configuration AKS74U, QBZ95 and QBZ95B are too big. Even FN P90 is to big, HK MP7A1 might just fit.
The US M4 recently got a pass because the USAF found a commercial vender who created a takedown kit for the M4 that allows M4 to fit by separating into two parts. So a downed pilot can open the kit pull the protective covers and mate the barrel and handguard to the receiver unfold the pistol grip and irons extend the stock and load the weapon.
None of the current Chinese SMG’s would fit that package. The Russian Stechkin does. Has do a few of their Submachine pistols including the PP-2000. The old Vz61 Skorpion does, very nicely to.
