View attachment 822947 View attachment 822944 Here is a little more information on the blade construction shown in post 5 above. The Carbon fiber is bonded to Titanium which is Carbidized on the non-bevel side. This knife is not designed to escape detection but has a high robustness at a low weight.
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I saw one of these detectors coming back from over seas, when people walk in front the scanner, they appear naked. As in it shows every contour of the body. Nothing is hidden, at least on the outside of the body.
Rather invasive but definitely secure.
LOL. The body scanners in the US no longer show that kind of detail (but did at one time), not sure about other countries.
The old mm wave machines
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I don't know what they use conus. The one I saw was in kuwait coming back from deployment. And it was every bit as detailed as I described.
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Turns out that they don't actually work. Very high false negative rate, and the radiation exposure wasn't calibrated correctly. Some major flaws with the system, but that doesn't keep them from being used.
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This was big news a few years back, but it's like he said, they no longer use such detailed body scans.
I have several of the old "CIA" knives, the Blackie Collins baby switch blade, and the Cold Steel Delta Dart dagger and their karambit, whatever it's called. They won't slice much of anything but could be a stabber. However the only one in the bunch which could reach anything vital would be the Delta Dart.
So, I made my own, patterned after the old Condor Pipe dagger "Hog Spear".
Carbon/epoxy pipe is now manufactured for structurals in ultra-lites and regular piping work for chemical resistance. It is very hard and strong being the perfect factory-controlled ratio of fiber to polymer and autoclave curing. (A cut piece "rings" when bounced on an anvil.) A foot of 1" CFRP pipe with five minutes of cutting and pushing against an industrial belt sander set at 30 degrees puts a wicked sharp cutting end on the end of the pipe. Mine is 10 years old now but even with dozens of people playing with it and feeling the edge, it's as good as new.
I'm quite confident that as a stabbing tool a reasonably strong person could take a 1-inch "core" out of someone with this thing.
So, I made my own, patterned after the old Condor Pipe dagger "Hog Spear".
Carbon/epoxy pipe is now manufactured for structurals in ultra-lites and regular piping work for chemical resistance. It is very hard and strong being the perfect factory-controlled ratio of fiber to polymer and autoclave curing. (A cut piece "rings" when bounced on an anvil.) A foot of 1" CFRP pipe with five minutes of cutting and pushing against an industrial belt sander set at 30 degrees puts a wicked sharp cutting end on the end of the pipe. Mine is 10 years old now but even with dozens of people playing with it and feeling the edge, it's as good as new.
I'm quite confident that as a stabbing tool a reasonably strong person could take a 1-inch "core" out of someone with this thing.