My ideal combat revolver is not made.
It would be the cat's meow if one of the top flight revo makers would take some of their engineering or metalurgical expertise and design the following:
6-8 shots of 9mm, .38/.357, .45ACP or 10mm
2.25 to 5 inch barrel as desired.
Low profile adjustable rear sight or one tough as a Bowen field sight.
AND finally, moon-clip capable with a throughly modern top break action. Were one enough of an engineering stud, the rear sight trading off being a PITA to adjust, could be contoured to be the thumb latch for the top break.
It would be so cool to have a modern, tough as hell, reliable revolver that one could just break in half so the cases just spat right out of it, one that could be unlatched and opened with either hand, reloaded really fast with either hand and which held together at least as well as a K frame Smith if it couldn't be as tough as a GP-100 or larger revolver.
It would probably be ugly, but it would be really fast into action compared to swinging out the cylinder for folks not named Miculek.
Hmmm, a better looking Webley in modern metals and chamberings? That'd be tasty.