Author: Greg Walker
Publisher: PALADIN PRESS, Oct 2003
Binding: Softcover
ISBN: 1-58160-120-4
Synopsis
An inside view of the exacting design criteria, cutting-edge materials, extensive factory tests & exhaustive real-life field tests that went into the historic redesign of the blade, handguard, handle, pommel, & sheath of the ultimate fighting knife of the future. Photos, illus; 8.5x11 inches, 80 pgs.
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The KA-BAR Fighting/Utility Knife is the most widely recognized and popular combat knife ever to be produced in the United States. Since its introduction on 23 November 1942, the KA-BAR has performed brilliantly on the battlefields of Europe, the South Pacific, Korea, Southeast Asia, Central America and the Middle East, earning its moniker as the ?ultimate fighting knife.? In this book, Greg Walker gives readers an inside view of the exacting design criteria, cutting-edge materials, extensive factory tests and exhaustive real-life field tests that went into the historic redesign of the blade, handguard, handle, pommel, and sheath of the ultimate fighting knife of the future. The new knife excelled at these rigorous tests, earning the right to be called a KA-BAR.
