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发表于 2008-10-9 16:59
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The founder of the U.S. Army Combatives is creating a new fighting knife designed specifically for hand-to-hand combat.
Matt Larsen, who is the director of the combatives program at Fort Benning, Ga., has teamed up with knife makers Bill Harsey and Chris Reeve in a private venture to produce the LHR Combat Knife, a project that will be marketed by Gerber Legendary Blades next July.
The current prototype features a 7-inch blade designed for thrusting and a molded plastic sheath with a custom "weapons retention" thumb release. The sheath will allow soldiers to access the knife quickly but prevent an attacker from snatching it away in a fight.
The majority of soldiers purchase and carry their own fixed-blade knives into battle, but few if any, have ever used one in a fight, Larsen said, based on 900 documented accounts of hand-to-hand fights in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"I have been training people to fight with knives" as part of the combatives program, but most knife-and-sheath combinations soldiers carry aren't designed for close-in fighting, Larsen told Army Times on Oct. 7 at Association of the United States Army's Annual Meeting.
"There is not a knife out there that fits the bill. The knife didn't exist; the sheath didn't exist."
This realization prompted Larsen to team up with Harsey and Reeve on the effort three years ago. Harsey and Reeve are well-known in the knife community and have designed other custom blades such as the Yarborough, a robust sheath knife awarded to soldiers after they complete the Special Forces qualification course.
While it is intended as a fighting knife, the LHR's 3/16 inch thick blade is robust enough to hold up to field use.
"It is primarily designed for thrusting, but soldiers being soldiers, it has got to be designed for some utility," Larsen said.
The blade material will be a special alloy made by Crucible Specialty Tool Steel in Syracuse, N.Y., that's designed for rugged use, Harsey said.
The knife will also be available in a 5-inch blade model.
The main goal of the project is to make a quality knife that most soldiers can afford, Larsen said. The plan now is to market the knife for $150 to $200.
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