page_title: Heckler & Koch USP
section_title: USP Tactical
hierarchical_section_title: Heckler & Koch USP / Variants / USP Tactical
caption_attribution_description: English: HK USP Tactical in .9mm Parabellum with 15-rounds magazine capacity. The gun also comes in .45 ACP, .40 S&amp;W, and 9mm Parabellum. The gun is fitted with Picatinny special rail, Aimpoint Micro-T red-dot optical sight and Brügger &amp; Thomet sound suppressor which owned by Pasukan Gerakan Khas special forces of the Royal Malaysian Police for stealth missions. Photo was taken by me with a Nikon COOLPIX L16 camera.
context_page_description: The USP is a semi-automatic pistol developed in Germany by Heckler & Koch GmbH of Oberndorf am Neckar as a replacement for the P7 series of handguns.
context_section_description: The USP Tactical (9mm Parabellum, .40 S&W, .45 ACP) incorporates an adjustable rear sight, a higher-profile front sight (as to be visible above the suppressor), an extended threaded barrel and O-ring, a match grade trigger, and an adjustable trigger stop (the 9mm model, referred to by HK as the "USP9SD (tactical)" does not have the match trigger with adjustable trigger stop, O-ring, and does not carry the "Tactical" marking on the slide of the USP40 and USP45 Tactical models, making it a standard-size USP9 with threaded barrel and raised & adjustable target sights; those features were added to it in 2015). Sound suppressors designed for the USP Tactical are available from Brügger & Thomet and Knight's Armament. A unique feature of the USP Tactical is that the barrel is left-hand threaded (counter-clockwise to tighten), which makes the pistol incompatible with suppressors designed for the MK23 Mod 0.
  The KSK of the German Army and the German Navy Kampfschwimmer use the USP Tactical under the designation "P12".
caption: HK USP9SD (tactical) of the Pasukan Gerakan Khas, fitted with Brügger & Thomet sound suppressor, Picatinny pistol rail and Aimpoint Micro T-1.
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