Bayonet (arms)

History

Its origin goes back to a unforeseeable occurrence. During sporadic conflicts which agitated the French campaigns middle of the 17th century, the peasants of Bayonne were with court of Poudre and of Projectile S. They card-indexed their long Couteau X of hunting in the guns of their Mousquet S, making impromptu Lance S. Thus the need gave rise to the auxiliary weapon which was going to influence the techniques of the European Infanterie until the beginning of the 20th century.

The advantages of a weapon cumulating two functions appeared quickly. The first mousquets suffered from a weak rate of shooting (a shooting per minute with a powder horn and ball S) and from an unreliability. The bayonets became a complement useful for the system of weapon when the load of the enemy in the useful zone of shooting of the mousquet (100 meters in the best of the cases) stated it only to only one discharge before it reaches the defenders. A bayonet of 30 Centimetre S length (certain lawful sizes reached 43 cm at the time of the Napoleonean period), on a mousquet of almost two meters ensured a lengthening-piece comparable with the lance of infantry, and later even of the Hallebarde, used before.

The first bayonets were of type “stopper”. They had a cylindrical handle which was adjusted directly inside the gun of the mousquet preventing the weapon from drawing.

Later, the bayonets with Tenon erase the blade of the mouth. The bayonet is fixed on the outside of the gun by a housing in the shape of ring. On later models, it will be fixed by a notch at spring on the mouth of the gun of the mousquet.

Many bayonets were triangular and offered a better side stability of the blade without significant increase in weight. This model did not comprise a handle making it possible to use it independently of rifle.

The Tactical S soldiers of the XVIII {{E}} and 19th century integrated various loads and grouped defenses using the bayonet. The British army was re-elected for its use of the bayonet, although at the beginning of the 19th century when the Napoleonean techniques of war develop, the superiority of a shooting of Salve fast and regular made it possible to the British to eclipse their adversaries in the combat of Ligne.

Handling

Rumeur S circulate among the veterans of before the First World War, on techniques of combat to the bayonet very élitistes, as complex and demanding as the Escrime. One supposes that beyond blockings and strike modern simplified, there were cuts, parades and disarmaments, during which a fluid blocking became favourable to attack or disarm. These techniques would have also taught the striking of size and Estoc as well as the particular vulnerabilities which constitute the ankles, the wrists, the neck, the Artère S brachiales and femoral. It is also claimed that the movements were practiced in all the orientations and positions of the two combatants thanks to methods of drive close to an high level to fencing. The emergence of these techniques was made possible by the long periods of continuous drive which knew the professional Armée S before this period. To old handbooks of French drive of the Années 1850 still testify some. Copies reproduced on Internet seem to support these assertions.

With the Japan, the art of the combat to the bayonet is called Juken jutsu .

Types

The Geneva Convention prohibits the use of the triangular, cruciform or notched bayonets. Indeed, the Blessure S which they involve heal with difficulty and these weapons were regarded as inhuman. However, it is not rare to find such models today.

The majority of the modern bayonets have a gutter (visible on the upper part of the blade shown above). It is a concave depression conceived to reduce the weight and to increase the rigidity of the blade. It also makes it possible the air to return in the wound, preventing the creation of a vacuum, which makes the bayonet easier to withdraw after penetration and less prone to remain wedged. To in no case this gutter does not have vocation to channel the blood which drains blade.

The bayonet is still useful for the modern war. Although the majority of the engagements take place remote, the operations of “cleaning” force to approach the enemy. The bayonet is useful like knife and support the moral one of the troops for the combat. The majority of the armies equip and involve their troops with his handling. The modern bayonet sawback U.S.M9, officially deployed in 1984, is provided with a special sleeve which makes function of cutting pliers, imitating in that what had already been made previously by the Russian with the model equipping the AK-47 which makes it possible to divide barbed wire. Certain editions of M9 have a gutter, others not, according to the subcontractor who manufactured the batch and the schedule of conditions of the moment. The M9 bayonet replaces M7 of the Sixties, although in practice of the US Marine Corp, the knife of combat Ka-bar of the Second world war is always provided. Since the summer 2004, the US Corp Marine provides an minor amount of bayonets of design different from M9. It is about a blade of 20 cm (8 inches) without gutter adopting the shape of the Bowie knife; it is manufactured by Ontario Knife Company (in Ontario in the state of New York.)

The modern bayonets often have the shape of a knife with a handle and a tenon, or are fixed in a permanent way at rifle, like in the case of SKS. According to the place and the date of manufacture of a given SKS, it can lay out of a fixed bayonet with a blade of the type knife (Russia, Romania, Yugoslavia, old China), cruciform (modern China), triangular (Albania) the type which is prohibited by the convention of Geneva or any bayonet.

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