Bayonets

As long as there is a chance of close combat action, there will be bayonets. A spear beats a knife anytime.
 
I think bayonets are out of vogue. The most missions are against the terror and if you stand in town you may don't have the time to plant your bayonet on you weapon, so I think a good combat-knife will be the better choise in a close combat action.

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Well, the SKS has an integral bayonet, so if an insurgent has no other alternatives than an "ALLAHU AKBAR!" charge it might see some use.
 
Bayonets were used by the Brits during the Invasion of Iraq.

The Bayonet will always have a place on the battlefield.
 
In the german army there are no bayonets any more, wie have the combat-knife KM2000.
Perhaps some units have the bayonet because there are traditionally reasons, I doesn't know...

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The U.S. 27th Infantry Regiment during Korea once took out a Chinese Machine gun position with bayonets.
 
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The U.S. 27th Infantry Regiment during Korea once took out a Chinese Machine gun position with bayonets.
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The koreawar was in the '50s and the vietnamwar was short time after. Both wars were in jungle terrain and such terrain a weapon with a bayonet have in mind, but a war like this wars won't be come back, not for modern armys like the USA, GB, France, etc.
War since 1990 in fact would be won by air force to 60 %, 20% by special forces and the last 20% are troops.
Take a look on Desert Storm, the major offensive of ground troops take three days and it was over.

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as a last resort weopen its pretty handy in a close combat situation where a pistol is uneffective.
i'd havbe to agree with missileer, as long as theres a chance of close combat there'll be bayonets
 
In the Polish Army soldiers are also trained to use bayonets atachet to their rifles.
You never know when this ability will come in handy.
 
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We were taught how to use the bayonet at Benning. I must had said "KILL!!" 5 thousand times that day.....
 
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Well, bayonets are still active. My brother once told me, when he and the platoon has to fight during sandstorm in north-western Iraq, along border with Syria. So, he was using the bayonet cause you can't see your hands more than 15 inches. So, he did stabbed some insurgents during sandstorm, he told me.
 
a knife/bayonet never runs out of ammo, as long as you have a will to survive you can defend yourself against an enemy. the knife/bayonet will never go away.
 
If you must kill someone you can even do it with an pencil. In my lone fighter training it was shown to me how to do...

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From an article in The Sun (http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004223179,00.html)

British soldiers killed 35 Iraqi attackers in the Army’s first bayonet charge since the Falklands War 22 years ago. The fearless Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders stormed rebel positions after being ambushed and pinned down. Despite being outnumbered five to one, they suffered only three minor wounds in the hand-to-hand fighting near the city of Amara. The battle erupted after Land Rovers carrying 20 Argylls came under attack on a highway.

After radioing for back-up, they fixed bayonets and charged at 100 rebels using tactics learned in drills.

When the fighting ended bodies lay all over the highway — and more were floating in a nearby river. Nine rebels were captured. An Army spokesman said: “This was an intense engagement.”

The last bayonet charge was by the Scots Guards and the Paras against Argentinian positions.


<big>Argylls fight hand to hand in Iraq</big>
by BRIAN BRADY
WESTMINSTER EDITOR
(from an article at Scotland on Sunday (http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=559592004).

SCOTTISH troops fixed bayonets and fought hand to hand with a Shi’ite militia in southern Iraq in one of their fiercest clashes since the war was declared more than a year ago, it was reported last night.

Soldiers from the Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders mounted what were described as "classic infantry assaults" on firing and mortar positions held by more than 100 fighters loyal to the outlawed cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, according to military sources.

At least 20 men from al-Sadr’s army were believed killed in more than three hours of fighting - the highest toll reported in any single incident involving British forces in the past 12 months.

Nine fighters were captured and three British soldiers injured, none seriously.

"It was very bloody and it was difficult to count all their dead," one source was quoted as saying. "There were bodies floating in the river."

The Argyll and Sutherland Highlanders were drawn into the fighting when soldiers in two Land-Rovers were ambushed on Friday afternoon about 15 miles east of the city of Amara. The soldiers escaped, only to be ambushed a second time by a larger group of militia, armed with machine-guns, rocket-propelled grenades and mortars.

Reinforcements were summoned from the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment at a base nearby. "There was some pretty fierce hand-to-hand fighting with bayonets fixed," the source added. "There were some classic assaults on mortar positions held by the al-Sadr forces."

Official spokesman Major Ian Clooney confirmed the Mehdi army "took a pretty heavy knocking", but refused to specify tactics. "This was certainly an intense engagement," he added.
 
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