Knives Actually Designed by Warriors for Combat

Think back to a time when warriors actually used a knife as a primary weapon and you will find your answer.
 
Four-and-twentypence said:
One wonders what the OP means. I can carry an ASEK, designed to be used by air crews, where fighting was a parameter, and fight with it. A few servicemen also have used machetes to make kills when they needed to do so. Does he mean knives built for combat, and if so, for fighting; does he mean military contract knives?
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There are lots of knives designed for combat use, and they are many of them very good knives. There are lots of companies supplying good knives to troops, and many of them are producing a quality product.

I'm just curious about how many of the combat knives that are good knives were designed by guys actually in combat, as opposed to a great knife maker listening to requirements and responding well to them. For me, I am interested in the knife designer, and the story behind him.

Sorry if I wasn't clear before.
 
JeremiahWeaver09 said:
vietnam vet and pow Nick Rowe helped design the Al Mar SERE 2000
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Not quite. He designed the old SERE/Attack, which was a much larger folder and only carried in a sheath. There were also some fixed-blade variants back then. The 2000 was done 11 years after Rowe died.
 
In my short experience collecting military knives, the line between gimmicky and badass is very blurry.

The fact that a knife is designed by a soldier or something more badass does not make it good, first, because a good soldier might not make a good designer, and second, because a man is not only a military badass, he's also a bussinessman.

This is (I think) a good exapmple:

[video=youtube;J5PxLSMIgs8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5PxLSMIgs8[/video]

He was a "warrior" ; a Green Beret. Does it mean those knives are any good? you be the judge. (oh, and btw, that handle on the fixed is a ripoff of FOX knives)

If you want truly badass warrior knives I'd look into what they use and into the history of the knives. Some examples may be the CRK Green Beret,Spartan Blades, Mission knives,Busse, Cold Steel (yes, Cold Steel), Fallkniven, Mil-Tac (even though I understand most of them are FKMDs retooled) etc.

Some of them are made by ex SF etc.. some of them aren't, all of them are used by "warriors".
 
I would like to think that the late col. Rex applegate was fortunate enough to have been in the right place at the right time, having been actively involved with the war effort at the height of ww2.
His combat folders may not have been made with his own hands
But the requirements and feed back that went into his applegate combat folder was as a result of his years of input gained and gathered from the field.
He may have left this earth, but he did leave behind his legacy of what a warriors knife might be like...
 
GIRLYmann said:
I would like to think that the late col. Rex applegate was fortunate enough to have been in the right place at the right time, having been actively involved with the war effort at the height of ww2.
His combat folders may not have been made with his own hands
But the requirements and feed back that went into his applegate combat folder was as a result of his years of input gained and gathered from the field.
He may have left this earth, but he did leave behind his legacy of what a warriors knife might be like...
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Applegate also carried around a six shot .45 ACP revolver with the barrel trimmed to 2" and the front of the trigger guard cut off. From what I've read anyway, never met the man.
 
Rhinoknives1 said:
Applegate also carried around a six shot .45 ACP revolver with the barrel trimmed to 2" and the front of the trigger guard cut off. From what I've read anyway, never met the man.
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That is absolutely badass.
 
Justin Gingrich, former Army Ranger founded Ranger knives (sold to Ontario now) and now runs GTI which makes knives. I have a RD6 as my main camping/hiking knife.
 
Paul Cale Ghost by ZU Bladeworx (Australia). I believe this bloke is actually training SF troops in the U.S.
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Liked it so much I bought another.......and another......and another.......[emoji13]
 
Idlewild said:
Treeman Knives...extensive line with multiple options. :thumbup:


https://www.treemanknives.com/
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Jim Behring and his son James make Excellent blades that do supposedly see use from operators. I have a TASS Black Ops that I may have to sadly to sell here in a bit to cover some other knife purchases. But its built like a tank and its geometry just feels right for "killing/combat", but with that said, you can fight with any knife if your gun is not around:)!
 
I know a few soldiers (all of them are/were current Middle East conflict Army and Marines) and most of them never carried fixed blades or were told by their CO's that they were not allowed to carry fixed blades off of base. I believe most all of them bought knives when they arrived in Iraq and Afganastan but ended up not carrying anything more than a folding pocket knife on missions. The pocket knives however got a lot of use opening packages, MREs, etc.

This may not be true of everyone and I know my brother carried a Beretta boot knife for a while (but never used it for anything I believe) but it seems combat has changed and with all that the government requires you to carry an extra pound can be a pound too much many times.
 
Macchina said:
I know a few soldiers (all of them are/were current Middle East conflict Army and Marines) and most of them never carried fixed blades or were told by their CO's that they were not allowed to carry fixed blades off of base. I believe most all of them bought knives when they arrived in Iraq and Afganastan but ended up not carrying anything more than a folding pocket knife on missions. The pocket knives however got a lot of use opening packages, MREs, etc.

This may not be true of everyone and I know my brother carried a Beretta boot knife for a while (but never used it for anything I believe) but it seems combat has changed and with all that the government requires you to carry an extra pound can be a pound too much many times.
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Only 14% of the troops deployed in them areas is Infantry. As a retired 11B I can tell you I never heard of any infantryman being told to not carry a fixed blade. Every step I took outside the FOB I wore a Glock field knife. Every step I took on the FOB I wore it.

Depends on what their MOS was I guess but grunts carried any knife they wanted everywhere I went in AFG and Iraq.
 
DPC said:
In my short experience collecting military knives, the line between gimmicky and badass is very blurry.

The fact that a knife is designed by a soldier or something more badass does not make it good, first, because a good soldier might not make a good designer, and second, because a man is not only a military badass, he's also a bussinessman.

This is (I think) a good exapmple:

[video=youtube;J5PxLSMIgs8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5PxLSMIgs8[/video]

He was a "warrior" ; a Green Beret. Does it mean those knives are any good? you be the judge. (oh, and btw, that handle on the fixed is a ripoff of FOX knives)

If you want truly badass warrior knives I'd look into what they use and into the history of the knives. Some examples may be the CRK Green Beret,Spartan Blades, Mission knives,Busse, Cold Steel (yes, Cold Steel), Fallkniven, Mil-Tac (even though I understand most of them are FKMDs retooled) etc.

Some of them are made by ex SF etc.. some of them aren't, all of them are used by "warriors".
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Perhaps; Preparedmind101 was underwhelmed by this blade's appearance, but was impressed by the performance once he tested it:

[youtube]9Yzg39GeDes[/youtube]
 
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