Is this German Army knife special in any way?

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Here's one army/tactical knife from my collection that I happen to like.
A classic German army KM2000 knife with a little twist to it - I think it's an early sprint-run or taken straight from the army, not bought as a civilian tool.
It has the full original factory writing on it:

"Waffentechnik Borkott & Eickhorn Solingen - Germany".

For example, on their official site this exact model doesn't have this writing on it:
www.eickhorn-solingen.de

KM 2000

KM 2000
www.eickhorn-solingen.de www.eickhorn-solingen.de

I haven't seen a lot of these with the full writing. What can you say?




 
https://www.bladeforums.com/threads/waffentechnik-borkott-eickhorn-vs-eickhorn-solingen.1204861/ .

Second post down explains some of it -


"Both are original and the basic original combat knives are identical in quality and specs except for slightly different grip patterns and different blade inscriptions. The reason is that this is the knife contracted by the German Bundeswehr (440A blade, straight-back tanto blade) with the old Eickhorn company. That company declared some kind of bankruptcy around 2002 or 2003; one of the owners/managers, Jorg Eickhorn, left and joined Borkott to form "Waffentechnik Borkott & Eickhorn", while the old company reconstituted itself as "Original Eickhorn Solingen". Apparently, both companies held part of the army contract for the knife, although only Original Eickhorn had rights to the KM2000 name which is its military designation. So Borkott came up with KM2K. Both companies supplied and AFAIK are still supplying knives to the Bundeswehr.

Both companies have created and are marketing line extensions both in the civilian and military markets; Original Eickhorn has versions of the KM2000 as well as a KM3000, KM4000 etc. in better steel with different blade shapes. I don't have current info as to whether any but the initial version from both companies are actually in service anywhere, but those two are identical, and the German army is issuing them interchangeably."
 
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