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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    Oh boy 8-)
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  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Thought it was about time for another silly question. ;)
    I've been watching a few documentaries on WW2, and was
    Wondering. ..... Do the modern Army still use Bayonets ?
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I'm not a gun expert, but I think I can answer. Bayonets are there to make your rifle into a spear if you bullets run out or Your rifle jams. This was much more likely to happen in the past, but it still happens. This is from wikipedia:

    In 1995, during the Siege of Sarajevo, French Marine infantrymen from the 3rd RIMA carried out a bayonet charge against the Serbian forces to regain the Vrbanja bridge.[38]

    The British Army mounted bayonet charges during the Falklands War (see Battle of Mount Tumbledown), the Second Gulf War, and the war in Afghanistan.[39] In 2004 in Iraq at the Battle of Danny Boy, the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders bayonet-charged mortar positions filled with over 100 Mahdi Army members. The ensuing hand-to-hand fighting resulted in an estimate of over 40 insurgents killed and 35 bodies collected (many floated down the river) and nine prisoners. Sergeant Brian Wood, of the Princess of Wales's Royal Regiment, was awarded the Military Cross for his part in the battle.[40]

    British forces in Afghanistan have used bayonets many times. In 2009, Lieutenant James Adamson, aged 24, of the Royal Regiment of Scotland was awarded the Military Cross for a bayonet charge whilst on a tour of duty in Afghanistan: after shooting one Taliban fighter dead Adamson had run out of ammunition when another enemy appeared. He immediately charged the second Taliban fighter and bayoneted him.[41] In September 2012, Lance Corporal Sean Jones of The Princess of Wales's Regiment was awarded the Military Cross for his role in a bayonet charge which took place in October 2011
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    Thanks , Number24. -{ thought they may have been part of history. :)
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    Obviously, the acts described above require BES (Balls of Enormous Size)
    Personally I remember bayonet training in boot camp. We all found it very chilling and disturbing. :#
  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    In the British army at least a bayonet is a stabbing weapon, in use for that purpose only. It is no good for other tasks. Some armies have 'multi function' bayonets with bottle openers etc Also if you see one you will notice it has a channel milled into it along its length. This is to allow the flow of blood to escape.
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    I remember reading in a thriller borrowed from Barbel, that sometimes
    If you cut an enemies throat with, too sharp a knife, the two separate
    Pieces of flesh may not separate and so fail at killing.
    Don't know if that's a bit of writers imagination or in fact, er! A Fact. :D
    Also the groove in a knife is to prevent suction, leading to you not being
    Able to pull it out to stab again. As Stag has said. ;)
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    stag wrote:
    Also if you see one you will notice it has a channel milled into it along its length. This is to allow the flow of blood to escape.

    That's an old myth perpetuated for generations and totally untrue, as is the suction thing. The 'fuller' or groove is actually there to make the blade lighter but without forfeiting strength. Pulling the knife out makes the blood flow pretty well. Slashing causes blood flow. A stab doesn't need blood to flow as you are sticking the vital organs, and you certainly can't get a knife stuck in flesh by suction, and a groove wouldn't help if it did as flesh conforms.
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  • Number24Number24 NorwayPosts: 21,699MI6 Agent
    I've heard that too, ASP9mm. But I do remember being tought to twist the rifle after bayoneting someone to ease the retraction of the bayonet blade. (Grisly, I know :# )
  • ThunderpussyThunderpussy Behind you !Posts: 63,792MI6 Agent
    :)) Thanks, Asp9mm. Another myth bites the dust. -{
    "I've been informed that there ARE a couple of QAnon supporters who are fairly regular posters in AJB."
  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    Make sure to cross-check all these dodgy infos from him (Asp9mm) with google 8-)

    He's even dumb enough to lose his watch in a shower in the middle of nowhere and later buy a Bremont :p
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    You bought a Belmont? You're an idiot. I did buy something to go with my HS01 though. I got a near mint 5512 from the same guy. he's a real knife collecting nut, and his whim for collecting watches has faded :D
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    :)) Thanks, Asp9mm. Another myth bites the dust. -{

    It's amazing how much those myths have taken hold and suddenly become 'fact'. But if you think about it, it doesn't make sense. Fullers originally were put on curved swords. Now why would a curved sword, which is primarily a slashing weapon need that? Sure they can be used for stabbing too, but the fuller starts well past the point where it would be useful. So it's pretty obvious that it was to lighten and strengthen long blades. The same for knives too as a fuller does prevent lateral bending and twisting of the blade.
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  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    Only thing I can add to asp's encyclopedic gun knowledge is that bayonets do wonders for rifle accuracy....

    I'd like an L85A2 bayonet but I'm told by many that they're ****.
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    I think the main reason they are reported as being **** is because they are trying to use them as utility knives too. As a bayonet, they work. It's rare you'll find a bayonet that is good for use as a utility/military knife too.
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  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    Asp9mm wrote:
    stag wrote:
    Also if you see one you will notice it has a channel milled into it along its length. This is to allow the flow of blood to escape.

    That's an old myth perpetuated for generations and totally untrue, as is the suction thing. The 'fuller' or groove is actually there to make the blade lighter but without forfeiting strength. Pulling the knife out makes the blood flow pretty well. Slashing causes blood flow. A stab doesn't need blood to flow as you are sticking the vital organs, and you certainly can't get a knife stuck in flesh by suction, and a groove wouldn't help if it did as flesh conforms.

    Try telling that to my old instructor & see where he would place his boot! Also try using the 'G' word instead of 'rifle' or 'weapon' would initiate a similar response. Have you ever handled an SLR bayonet? Just wondering how much weight would be saved?
  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    Why do I get the feeling someone just lit the blue touch paper?
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    stag wrote:



    Try telling that to my old instructor & see where he would place his boot! Also try using the 'G' word instead of 'rifle' or 'weapon' would initiate a similar response. Have you ever handled an SLR bayonet? Just wondering how much weight would be saved?

    You're absolutely correct! :D

    The only place where Asp9mm has handled anything looking like weapon was in his endless hours of playing WoW in his kid's room in his mommy's house :D

    And his arse is so huge that your instructor will hardly miss it
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  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    minigeff wrote:
    Why do I get the feeling someone just lit the blue touch paper?

    Why would you say that? I'm just asking a question. If you're referring to another thread then the answer to that is simple - I don't insult people & I don't expect to be insulted, whether those insults are straightforward or veiled.

    I was taught that the groove was there for the reason I said it was. I have never used a bayonet in anger so don't know the results of sticking it into a live target. As I said the bayonet - & I'm referring to the SLR bayonet - it purely a stabbing weapon, it is not designed to chop wood, open tins etc.
  • stagstag Posts: 2,083MI6 Agent
    The weight issue is negligible surely? I can understand if it stiffened the blade or something.
  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    Wasn't referring to any other thread, I dunno what ya on about there.

    The very little I know about old asp is enough to tell me when it comes to this kinda subject he usually knows what he's talking about, in fact I've never seen him proven wrong.

    I've heard the old 'the fuller is there to let the blood out/air in' before and also have been told by enough serving and past members of HM forces to know it's a load of bollocks.

    I think the weight saving idea is mainly concerning blades that'd actually benefit from it, ie the longer blades of swords. Not all blades have fullers, the most famous example being the fairburn Sykes.

    Design aspect or weight saving, take your pick. Either way it's not to let blood out or air in.

    The reason I said about blue touch paper being lit was because asp is regarded as gospel on these matters on Ajb, how dare you question his knowledge! <---- tongue in cheek comment.

    I'm just waiting for someone to throw the old 'a Gurkha must draw blood before putting his kukri away' bollocks now....
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    It's been written into AJB History, that the Rivalry between Higgins and ASP9MM is of legendary Proportions -{

    Makes me wonder is we can find a proper term for that for the AJB glossary?? ?:)
    Maybe Higgins sanity versus Asp9mm stupidity?
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  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    Higgins wrote:
    It's been written into AJB History, that the Rivalry between Higgins and ASP9MM is of legendary Proportions -{

    Makes me wonder is we can find a proper term for that for the AJB glossary?? ?:)
    Maybe Higgins sanity versus Asp9mm stupidity?

    Who's the bitch and who's the butch though?
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    stag wrote:
    Asp9mm wrote:
    stag wrote:
    Also if you see one you will notice it has a channel milled into it along its length. This is to allow the flow of blood to escape.

    That's an old myth perpetuated for generations and totally untrue, as is the suction thing. The 'fuller' or groove is actually there to make the blade lighter but without forfeiting strength. Pulling the knife out makes the blood flow pretty well. Slashing causes blood flow. A stab doesn't need blood to flow as you are sticking the vital organs, and you certainly can't get a knife stuck in flesh by suction, and a groove wouldn't help if it did as flesh conforms.

    Try telling that to my old instructor & see where he would place his boot! Also try using the 'G' word instead of 'rifle' or 'weapon' would initiate a similar response. Have you ever handled an SLR bayonet? Just wondering how much weight would be saved?

    Just because they are instructors, doesn't mean they know anything about design or history. In fact it's probably down to green army instructors that the myth was perpetuated. I fell for the same BS and passed it on myself until I found out the truth. Gun, weapon, pistol, rifle, long, short. Doesn't matter now. We aren't there anymore, this is a Bond forum afterall, and most people don't know or care about correct nomenclature. Although, if I read another novel where the magazine is called a clip, I swear I'll go nuts.

    Yes, I have handled bayonets and come to that swords, knives, longs, shorts etc of all descriptions. The most successful stabbing weapon design, the FS knife had no fuller, but a deeper spine than any other knife. Didn't need a fuller, that's because knives don't get stuck due to suction, and you don't need a body to bleed out when you stab a vital organ. That's just physics and plain common sense. Bleeding internally is bleeding. A knife if it has a saw back or parallel blade shape can get snagged in bone and dense muscle though.

    Since 2004 I've designed knives and worked with custom makers and other companies and organisations in this field. I also collect antique arms, especially swords and historically interesting blades. Everyone who knows the history of blades and has a deep interest in the field knows that the blood groove and suction story is a myth, just like the Ghurka kukri having the 'cho' there so the user can draw blood by nicking his own thumb if it is drawn without shedding anyone else's blood.
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  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    As a side note, it's actually really interesting to read up on the kukri and it's mouth and eye of god....

    Asp, pm coming your way....
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  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    stag wrote:
    The weight issue is negligible surely? I can understand if it stiffened the blade or something.

    Not on a sword where weight and balance are important. On Japanese swords and even our own cruciform types, the fuller was put in to finely balance the blade. On a knife it is mostly there to strengthen and increase rigidity as a full flat or sabre grind can bend and flex when entering dense material.
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  • M.M. UKPosts: 22MI6 Agent
    Gents not wanting to upset anyone but according to the instructional Manual for the L85A2 Rifle and its accessories states that
    "The recesses along the blade are blood channels to reduce any suction effect and enable a clean withdrawal from the body."
    As for weight saving its possible but not likely as the rifle it attaches to weighs enough any way.
    I always thought M was a randomly assigned initial, i had no idea it stood for.....
  • Asp9mmAsp9mm Over the Hills and Far Away.Posts: 7,483MI6 Agent
    edited December 2014
    M. wrote:
    Gents not wanting to upset anyone but according to the instructional Manual for the L85A2 Rifle and its accessories states that
    "The recesses along the blade are blood channels to reduce any suction effect and enable a clean withdrawal from the body."
    As for weight saving its possible but not likely as the rifle it attaches to weighs enough any way.

    It says that in many manuals and books. But it's just wrong. If suction was really an issue, the fuller would go right to the end of the blade. The design is bad in this way too as the right angles in the fuller could actually cause the muscle to grip onto that if stabbing into dense muscle tissue and it contracts. But it's on a great stonking rifle that has multiple parts for a firm grip, so it won't get stuck even if you stab a tree with it. The swedge also adds to this. It's not a bad weapon, but like the original spec SA80, it was designed by committee to be a jack of all trades, and not really by the end user.

    Weight saving is more for swords than knives. Although many makers of knives use this method to lighten and balance their blades. It's usually down to laziness though, as a good knife maker would do this when designing the blade, not afterwards. they are mostly there for show on lower end blades.
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  • minigeffminigeff EnglandPosts: 7,884MI6 Agent
    11lb isn't it for an L85A2?

    Got a shot of that manual?
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  • HigginsHiggins GermanyPosts: 16,618MI6 Agent
    edited December 2014
    :)) :)) :))

    Someone mentioning any kind of weapon and Asp9mm goes totally 808.gif
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