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It's not even remotely related to Desert Eagle. It is actually a CZ75 Derrivative.Didnt know Desert Eagle had 9mm version.
Czech pistol was cloned by Italian firm Tanfoglio to market it in the US and Western markets, Tanfoglio then transfered tooling to Israel which IMI/IWI renamed as the Jericho 941, Magnum research "the makers of the Desert Eagle ", started importing the Jericho 941 in US and dubbed it the "Baby eagle". All that was changes was the shroud to resemble the Desert Eagle
The CZ-75 Family, cousins and relatives.
The CZ 75- The BOSS
The CZ 75 is a semi-automatic pistol made by Česká zbrojovka Uherský Brod (CZUB) in the Czech Republic. First introduced in 1975, it is one of the original "wonder nines" featuring a staggered-column magazine, all-steel construction, and a hammer forged barrel. It has a good reputation amongst pistol shooters for quality and versatility at a reasonable price, and is widely distributed throughout the world. It is also the most common gun in the Czech Republic
The Italian Connection
Tanfoglio TZ-75
Due to politics the Czechs could not market their pistol in the United States and because CZ failed to secure world patent protection for their design, a number of firms copied it. Foremost Italian firm Fratelli Tanfoglio made good business marketing the pistol to the West with the design being so solid, that two shooters, US national Doug Koenig and Frenchman Eric Grauffel, have won the hard fought IPSC World Championship using pistols based on CZ 75 design. That was tremendous endorsement for any handgun design because all other World Champions up to the time had used pistols based on the John Browning 1911 format.
MY OWN TZ 75
The Israeli Baby Eagle / Jericho 941
The original Jericho 941 was based on the well-respected CZ-75 pistol designed and produced by Česká zbrojovka (CZ) of the Czech Republic and built using parts supplied by the Italian arms house Tanfoglio, which had been making their own CZ-75 clones. Using a well-tested design allowed IMI to avoid the teething problems most new pistol designs experience, and subcontracting much of the basic fabrication work to Tanfoglio allowed IMI to quickly and economically put into production a pistol that would have enough Israeli content to satisfy government contract requirements.
The Turkish Relative SAR - K12
Based on the classic CZ-75 pattern, which has to be the most copied pistol design in the world, these are hefty, accurate pistols.
Magnum research - Baby Eagle
New gen CZ 75 SP-01 Poly frame