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SOG made a version with an Aus8 stainless steel blade and black micarta handle in commemoration of the U.S. Navy SEALs, [1] known as the "SOG S2 Trident". The other Vietnam replica knife is known as the "Recon Bowie" by SOG with a distinctive banana-shaped 7 in (180 mm) blade. This type of knife was actually the first to go into service in Vietnam.
The knife was manufactured from 1995 to 2007 for SOG by Kinryu of Seki Japan. Both the Seal 2000 and the smaller version, the Seal Pup are on display in the knife exhibit at the US Navy SEAL Museum in Ft.Pierce, Florida. [6] Two SOG "Seal 2000" knives were used in the 2001 Dartmouth College murders. Scabbards left at the scene were crucial in ...
SOG Knife, used by U.S. armed forces; SOG Specialty Knives, US manufacturer; Military Assistance Command, Vietnam – Studies and Observations Group (MACV-SOG or SOG), clandestine US special operations group 1964–1972; Spear Operations Group, an American private military company responsible for assassinations in the Yemeni Civil War
On the night of 22–23 August as part of the Phase III Offensive a company from the VC R20 Battalion and a sapper platoon infiltrated MACV-SOG's Forward Operating Base 4, a compound just south of Marble Mountain Air Facility, killing 17 Special Forces soldiers (their largest one-day loss of the war) and wounding another 125 Allied troops ...
Mar went on to become a packaging designer and eventually the head of knife design for Gerber Legendary Blades in 1968. [3] [4] Gerber's head designer had retired and Pete Gerber gave Mar the task of coming up with an aluminum handle for a kitchen knife. Gerber thought the project was very successful and offered Mar the position of design chief.
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The knife features a 4 in (10 cm) drop point flat ground tiger striped blade of CPM S30V steel. The handle is composed of a fire anodized titanium frame, oil impregnated bronze bushings , an oversized pivot screw 0.19 in (0.48 cm) in diameter, and a textured G10 glass-reinforced plastic scale with an incorporated backspacer. [ 3 ]
TOPS Knives has over 200 knife models in production with many more that have are no longer made. One of the most well-known models is the Tom Brown Tracker Knife . [ 5 ] It was designed by Tom Brown Jr. and was featured in the 2003 Hollywood movie The Hunted .