Best military Knife?

Rat RC-4...plenty tough- but light, easy to put an edge on and great sheath system. All for a great price and nobody would cry if it was lost or stolen.

Or- Scrap Yard SS4 or Yard Keeper, Swamp Rat Howling Rat. For many of the same reasons above...tough, light, great edge holders...Res C is comfortable too.

Scrapper 5 also... a little bigger, but still light.
 
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+1 on the multitool. When we went to welcome the local marine battalion came home, they were presented with ceremonial kabar's - and I talked with one of the soldiers and he laughed saying that there were far more soldiers injured screwing around with their knives than jihadis killed by knife.

I don't know as I haven't been there, but it makes sense that hand to hand with a crack head jihadi doesn't sound like much fun - when soldiers were complaining that repeated 9mm wasn't dropping them, I wouldn't think a 7" battle knife will be much use as a pen knife/bottle opener/screwdriver/toothpick!
 
who says they can't carry both? most were issued all that stuff already when they deployed-a multitool and a combat knife like the M9 bayonet or a Kabar.
 
Deployment area?? can not decide the proper tools if you dont know where to go, needs diff tools in the desert and in a rain forest.

9" blade suggestion....no way, basic fighting lodout is about 80 punds if someone wear armor. Survival stuff, lot of water, amunition, weapon, helmet, googles, multitool, boots, BDU Food etc etc. Can not afford a 2 Lb knife.

If a soldier have to fight in close combat the knife is the last resort, and not the size will be the matter cause he fucked up everything and let the opponent come that close.

I think the best is a good thick blade (0.200) about 4-6.5 inch, light to medium weight knife, which is a good reliable cutting tool with some prying ability. It can perform well in every area.

Rat or Fallkniven, perhaps a benchmade nimravus (if i wanna stay super light.) would be my pick, in case of dynamic entry a tomahawk is also a good solution. its still less than 1 Lb and combined with small knife its a good solution too.
 
My Strider SMF has served my quite well on this last deployment. Of course the price was a little high but it was well worth it. Tough as nails, and very little wear on the knife over all, which is amazing considering what it has been through. The numerious multi tools I have been given by various units over the years really never get that much use from me, I find a heavy duty folder more usefull than pliers and screwdrivers and the like. If I wasn't going to ETS soon, I would love to bring a Randall #1, or models #14 or 16 on the next deployment. Of course they're a bit large, but who cares, it's a Randall !
 
1. Leatherman or Gerber multitool.
2. Fixed blade, I have a nice knife from Jason Knight which is a user and designed for it! You want a full tang and I've had an older K-bar bend at the tang on me when I was abusing it.
 
I was a soldier for six years as a communications specialist, but I had been assigned to various front-line units over those years (Combat Engineers in the 9th ID, Armor in the 2nd ID, and Infantry first and later Medical in the 101st Airborne).
And I'm a Gulf War vet too.

And to be completely honest, the knife I used the very most during those six years was a Victorinox Super Tinker.

My other "go to" knife was a Schrade LB7 (Schrade's version of the Buck 110).

I also got quite a bit of use from my old Leatherman tool.


Whenever I needed a tool to pry or smash or hammer or whatever, my trusty Entrenching-Tool (aka: E-Tool, folding shovel) was never far away.


So my recommendation is either a nice Victorinox Swiss Army knife or a good multi-tool.

Good luck,
Allen
 
A Leatherman PST was the most useful knife I ever carried in the Army, second was an Endura. I never had a need for a fixed blade and I wouldn't want one strapped to my web gear while constantly going in and out of the turret hatch. As a tanker I had a whole bustle rack full of tools if I needed something chopped up, dug up, or pried open.
 
Personally, I would recommend a 5" to 6" blade, that's a little bit thick with a beefy point, and a Spec-Ops sheath. More than that isn't really necessary, and may in fact be too big to easily carry when you factor in all the OTHER gear you have to carry as well. Back that up with a Multitool in the pouch on the sheath, and you'll be good to go.

There are a few Busses out there that would work well, and Swamp Rat and Scrapyard blades also.

If it was me, I would go with a Busse BATAC, or Swamp Rat Ratmandu, or Swamp Rat M6, or possibly a Busse SJTAC (largest I would consider for this use), or Scrapyard Scrapper 5. Any of these is big enough to use on a man if you have to, and small enough that you can use it for other things, and it won't be a total pain to carry.

Here is the M6 I sent to Afghanistan with a long-time friend of mine (although he grabbed my ACU sheath instead of the tan sheath... identical except for color, and the ACU sheath still had the tie-down line):

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When he told me he needed a good knife, I bought a couple new M6s, and brought several knives to him of varying sizes, so he could pretty much choose what works for him. That's what he chose. I brought several over because, after 14 years in the ARMY I figured he would probably have a good idea of what works for him.
 
Something cheap, since being in army you propably either lose it or break it.
Ka-Bar or Glock knives perhaps. Additional multitool or swiss army doesn't harm either.
 
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in my conversations with servicemen, i always heard the about their buck 110; it was a knife always available for sale in the base PX..now i think the multitool has become the most popular...
 
If my son was going to war, which he is not, I'd give him my Busse Hell Razor, large Sebenza, and Victorinox Swisstool Spirit. But that's off the top of my head. Ideally I'd want to talk with soldiers who had been where he was being sent before deciding which ones to give him.
 
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