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The English and Scandinavians introduced a combat knife known as the "bollock dagger" into military service around 1350, [7] while the French poignard and the Scottish dirk were daggers designed from the outset as military weapons. The rise in use of firearms led to a decline in the use of combat daggers and knives as military-issue weapons.
An early iron-bladed knife that served a dual purpose as fighting knife and utility blade was the seax, a pattern-welded weapon which dates from the 5th century AD, and worn as standard armament by Anglo-Saxon warriors from northern Italy as far north as Scandinavia and as far west as Ireland. [9]
Military issue or commercial designs, 1918 to present. BC-41 (WWII) Cuchillo De Paracaidista (Argentine Paratroopers) Arkansas toothpick (19th-century US) Facón (Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay) Corvo (19th-century Chile) Gerber Mark II (1967) Push dagger; United States Marine Raider stiletto (WWII) V-42 stiletto (WWII) "Yank" Levy fighting knife
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Ka-Bar (/ ˈ k eɪ. b ɑːr /; trademarked as KA-BAR) is the contemporary popular name for the combat knife first adopted by the United States Marine Corps in November 1942 as the 1219C2 combat knife (later designated the USMC Mark 2 combat knife or Knife, Fighting Utility), and subsequently adopted by the United States Navy as the U.S. Navy utility knife, Mark 2.
M1909 Bolo Knife [7] M1917 Bayonet (M1917 Rifle, M1897, M12 and M1200 Shotguns) M1917 Bolo Knife [8] M1917/M1918/Mark I Trench Knife; M1939 Machete; M1942 Bayonet (M1903 Springfield/M1 Garand) M1942 Bolo Knife (United States Navy Hospital Corpsman) [9] M1942 Machete [10] Sykes-Fairbairn Commando Knife; V-42 combat knife (Case V-42 'Stiletto ...
View history; General ... Knives; Daggers: see List of daggers; Axe; Sickle; Kama; ... List of premodern combat weapons; List of practice weapons
This is a list of notable types of weapons which saw use in warfare, and more broadly in combat, prior to the advent of the early modern period, i.e., approximately prior to the start of the 16th century.