Regulations on designs for military use?

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If I make a knife for someone in the military are there regulations on the design? I know they can only use certain ammo in their guns because other ammo is "inhumane" but is there a similar regulation for blades? Thanks.
 
I am not aware of any.

However, in the great World War I novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, it was said that prisoners found with sawtooth knives were executed on the spot.
 
Fraser said:
I am not aware of any.

However, in the great World War I novel, All Quiet on the Western Front, it was said that prisoners found with sawtooth knives were executed on the spot.
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Wasn't that just because of the more typical bayonet combat? A serrated blade was seen as much more painful, devastating and inhumane than a standard bayonet or knife. Which is kind of ironic since I heard, still trying to verify, that soldiers would intentionally dull bayonets to make them more painful.
 
my understanding is that each branch or unit will have guidelines on what may be carried.
 
MORIMOTOM said:
my understanding is that each branch or unit will have guidelines on what may be carried.
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Correct.

My unit had an unwritten policy about no exposed FB on your person while performing LE functions. In the field, on security posts, or deployed you pretty much carried what you wanted.

That being said, the design of the blade is going to be dictated solely the intended use of the blade itself.
 
The temptest in a teapot over the military knife-carry issue had its roots in the first Gulf War (Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm). The U.S. military did not want to offend Saudi sensibilities, so they prohibited the carry of privately owned belt knives and to a large extend banned the public carry of sidearms by all personnel. Strange policy indeed, considering the fact that the other coalition members conspicuously armed in public. I personally saw photos of French officers with large revolvers (most likely MR-73s in .357 Magnum caliber) holstered on their belts and British officers armed with Browning HP-35s in 9mm. According to many experts, this idiotic regulations caused the birth of what we now know as the "tactical folder". Out of sight, out of mind, and no worries about a possible Article 15!
 
Last I knew the regs. varied widely between branches/orgs. and the dutys you're assigned.
Anyone being deployed should check with command in advance to make sure whats allowed.
 
I was infantry. While deployed in Iraq, I ordered a few toys. The MT D/A Socom came first. Everybody was ok with that. When the CFO2 came in they said I couldn't carry that, not even while patrolling the streets of Mosul. Then again, this is the same Army that wouldn't let us carry frag or 40mmHEDP. We never used our 81's either. My platoon wouldn't let me carry my 21" asp, but another platoon in a different company let one of their soldiers carry a 36" asp. When we were on a detail to monitor gas stations during a supposed gas crisis, one of our brothers was killed in an ambush on our third day. The capt that wrote the op order told us specifically what route to take there and back, same time every morning same time every night. When our man was killed, there was no change or frago to the op order. What the f*ck, over?
 
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