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  2. Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife - Wikipedia

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    FairbairnSykes fighting knife at Fort William Museum. The F-S fighting knife was designed for surprise attack and fighting, with a slender blade that can easily penetrate a ribcage. Grip is provided by a vase handle, and the blade's slender, sharp-pointed blade is designed for use as a fighting knife. Fairbairn's rationale is in his book Get ...

  3. V-42 stiletto - Wikipedia

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    [1] [2] The blade's design has been attributed to Col. Frederick, who had seen the FairbairnSykes fighting knife while serving in Britain. [ 1 ] While the V-42 had a double-edged blade similar to the FairbairnSykes knife, the V-42 has a cross section with concave hollow ground blade facets, in contrast to the Fairbairn's flat four sided ...

  4. United States Marine Raider stiletto - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. Marine Raider stiletto was similar to the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife. Both were designed hilt-heavy to lie in the hand so as to reduce the risk of dropping. Both had a tapered, double-edge blade with stiletto-sharp tip and diamond-shaped cross section, sharpened on both cutting edges all the way to the oval crossguard .

  5. BC-41 - Wikipedia

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    History of the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting knife This page was last edited on 3 January 2024, at 19:14 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution ...

  6. Stiletto - Wikipedia

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    In late 1940, the famed British hand-to-hand combat instructors William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes designed the FairbairnSykes fighting knife, a double-edged dagger with a long narrow point designed to optimize the blade for thrusting, though it was also capable of slashing strokes if the cutting edges were sharpened. [31] V-42 stiletto

  7. Combat knife - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s and 1980s a student and protégé of Fairbairn, Colonel Rex Applegate worked with knife designer Bill Harsey, Jr. to design the Applegate-Fairbairn Combat Knife, so named because it was designed as an improvement on the FairbairnSykes based upon discussions Applegate and Fairbairn had during World War II to eliminate the ...

  8. Fighting knife - Wikipedia

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    In the 1970s and 1980s a student and protege of Fairbairn, Colonel Rex Applegate worked with knife designer Bill Harsey, Jr. to design the Applegate-Fairbairn Combat Knife, so named because it was designed as an improvement on the FairbairnSykes based upon discussions Applegate and Fairbairn had during World War II to eliminate the ...

  9. Defendu - Wikipedia

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    Close Quarters Combat System (also known as Defendu) is a modern martial art developed by William E. Fairbairn and Eric A. Sykes prior to World War II.It is a hand-to-hand combat system based on practical experience mixed with Jujutsu and boxing that was developed to train the Shanghai Municipal Police, and was later taught in expanded form to Office of Strategic Services and Special ...

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