New multi-purpose knife replaces old bayonet

Marine Corps News ^ | September 08, 2004 | by Cpl. Shawn Vincent

[PeteePie]

No picture available of this new menacing knife but I'm curious to see one, from a respectable distance.

[John Jorsett]

[mnehring]

Pretty nice. I thought it would be hard to improve on the K-Bar, but it seems like they succeeded.

[arly]

nice looking blade

[PeteePie]

Ooo!
Thanks for the visual.

[Born Conservative]

[Fudd]

Schweizer said the Multi-Purpose Bayonet is best used on the enemy...

Hello, Mr. Obvious.

[Riley]

"THE SPIRIT OF THE NEW MULTIPURPOSE KNIFE IS TO *KILL*, SIR!"

Nope, it's just missing something.

[Captain Rhino]

Despite the new features, you can still see the WWII USMC KaBar lineage in the blade and handle. Now every Marine can, in fact, have a true fighting knife.

[dfwgator]

"Now that's a knife."

[curmudgeonII]

I would hardly call a knife that:
1. is a bayonet
2. is a fighting knive
multi purpose. Dual purpose - yes. Multi purpose - no.

[taxcontrol]

Anyone know if it comes with WIRE CUTTERS? How about a sharpening stone on the scabbard? Is that too much to ask?

[sigh]

[JRandomFreeper]

Every Marine that has a rifle as their weapon

I thought that was all of them. Has something changed?

/john

[Uncle Jaque]

Pardon the pun, but that's a pretty sharp looking rig!

Very reminicient of the old "Bowie" knife, methinks!

One of my favorite "survival" knives is a Swedish M-96 bayo, with a hollow steel handle and supurb Swedish steel spear-point double-edged blade. The price is right too; around $25 with scabbard and frog at a lot of milsurp places.

[Little Pig]

Technically, I suppose, the SAW gunners don't also carry their rifle, so they would not have a "rifle as their weapon"

[John Jorsett]

How about a sharpening stone on the scabbard? Is that too much to ask?

Quoting the description I found here:

The low noise multi-carry scabbard is made of brown molded polyester elastomer, with a ceramic coated aluminum honing rod on the back.

[Doctor Stochastic]

3. Shaving
4. Letter Opener
5. Landmine Probe
6. Hammer

[Jack Black]

OK. I own an early version of this (first issue). It was designed by Phobis (or something like that?) for Buck, originally. My version DID have a wire cutter on it, that like the old Soviet AK bayonet was use by putting the very stout plastic sheeth's metal protusion through the hole in the blade. It also has a sharpening stone built into the sheeth. My favorite feature of the blade is that it has a built in bottle opener on the guard. It did not have the serrations this on has. I suspect the cutters were dropped because they are not effective and probably easy to cut yourself. A decent pair of cutter would be way better.

It's a decent knife but VERY heavy (in part due to the sheeth). If I had to hump it I would be very tempted to leave it for something lighter. (A swiss army knife or Leatherman?)

[Vic3O3]

cutlery ping!

[taxcontrol]

Missed that - good to know and glad to see it included.