Warning: This video contains graphic descriptions of Commando combat.
Sergeant Stan W Scott, No. 3 Army Commando, demonstrates the use of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife.
VIDEO HERE (3:22 minutes)
Warning: This video contains graphic descriptions of Commando combat.
Sergeant Stan W Scott, No. 3 Army Commando, demonstrates the use of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife.
VIDEO HERE (3:22 minutes)
I would not like to go against the old guy in a knife fight. Training does work.
ReplyDelete"Bit of a messy job."
ReplyDeleteAh, British understatement.
Yeah, that made me laugh...
DeleteI always liked The Chieftan's description of a shell penetrating into a tank: "a significant emotional event."
DeleteDecades back it was the Sykes-Fairbairn dagger.
ReplyDeleteI love fighting knives. I have a fairbairn-Sykes inspired knife designed by Colonel Robert Frederick and Captain Patrick O'Neal, O'Neal who was also a Shanghai policeman, along with Fairbairn and Sykes.
ReplyDeleteIt is called a v42 and mine was made by Case. I also have a SOG dessert dagger, but if I had to choose between the two the v42 is my favorite. I have various other daggers but none as deadly as those 2.
There's, I think, 4 or 5 videos with Stan Scott. The man is awesome!
ReplyDeleteDave
I’ve had Sykes Fairban knife for years. It’s a great infiltration knife made to do one thing, take out the enemy silently.
ReplyDeleteI have a knife based on the Sykes, a Gerber. I have had it for over 30 years.
ReplyDeleteExcellent knife.
I have a second pattern Sykes Fairbairn that jumped into Normandy, then walked across Europe IT's been retired and is taken out occasionally to show the grandkids.
ReplyDeleteif you stick that bad boy in the base of the skull at an upward angle, the recipient will be ded before all the nastiness of cutting the neck cartilage in an outward manner!
ReplyDeleteChutes Magoo
Interesting point made when stating don't move knife, pull person onto the blade. I don't recall ever hearing that advice before.
ReplyDeleteI don't own a Sykes-Fairborne dagger, but am considering purchasing an Othello Wingem 13451 boot dagger with very similar characteristics of SF. A bit shorter blade, but one piece construction - very solid unit. Many complained about the SF being a bit fragile - this one wouldn't break.
This is the same knife that is in the Special Forces Regimental Crest.
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Back during the Vietnam era, my SF Unit adopted the Gerber Mark II knife as our carry. It was a take off of the British Commando Knife. Ours was a little more practical for use. Ours had a serrated blade up by the Tang. They also came with a leather sheath.
Ours were Laser Engraved with our Names and Rank. Back then they were Serial Numbered also. You can trace the year it was made by the Serial Number.
Mine is more than 50 yeaes old. Still have it.
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