Sharpened bayonets

[ian_in_vic]

There was a bayonet charge in Korea and one in Iraq, They don't like it up 'em" Oh by the way both times it was our side doing the charging.

I honestly don't think it's possible to put a British infantry regiment in a combat situation without them at least trying a bayonet charge, it's like a cult thing - Grandad did it, great grandad did it, the old vet down the street did it, so I'm gonna do it. Besides, it really does (by all accounts) scare the living sh*t out of even the toughest enemy. The above appears to apply AT LEAST double for Highland Regiments, where it's considered a religious rite of passage. Isn't that right Captain Mainwaring.

 

[sf]

I honestly don't think it's possible to put a British infantry regiment in a combat situation without them at least trying a bayonet charge, it's like a cult thing..... The above appears to apply AT LEAST double for Highland Regiments, where it's considered a religious rite of passage. .

Add the famous Gurkha to that list.

 

[ian_in_vic]

yes, but Ghurkas use the Khukri, and that most certainly IS a religious thing - so is using it.

 

[paulz]

I've seen a picture of Ghurkas charging, rifle with fixed bayonet at the trail in the left hand, Khukri waved over the head with the right hand! Would not like to be on the receiving end!

 

[ian_in_vic]

I've seen a picture of Ghurkas charging, rifle with fixed bayonet at the trail in the left hand, Khukri waved over the head with the right hand! Would not like to be on the receiving end!

At least those recipients would get to see them coming, Ghurkas are incredible night fighters.

 

[Dimitri]

Both my FN49 and Swiss AMT bayonets are not sharp and appear to have never been sharp.

Bayonets can poke ether dull or sharp when attached to a 9 pound battle rifle. I thought a utility/fighting knife was a 2nd large fixed blade knife to carry/use.

Dimitri

 

[John Sukey]

Seeing them coming? A friend went on an nightime escape and evasion course. The Ghurkas were playing the bad guys. If they saw you, they were supposed to make a chalk mark on you. He thought he had gotten away clean, UNTIL he got to the fire at the finish, he discovered every piece of his kit, from his helmet to his boots, had chalkmarks.

 

[Calum]

Seeing them coming? A friend went on an nightime escape and evasion course. The Ghurkas were playing the bad guys. If they saw you, they were supposed to make a chalk mark on you. He thought he had gotten away clean, UNTIL he got to the fire at the finish, he discovered every piece of his kit, from his helmet to his boots, had chalkmarks.

Bahaha!

One of the guys I used to work with was a retired Brit army mechanic, and went to the Falklands, turns out the Gurkas preferred to camp on the deck of the ship in the arctic air rather then below decks.

Tough buggers.

 

[sf]

That's what happen when these mountain men eat 150C hot curry everyday.