What knife is needed in the Ministry of Internal Affairs?
The police need a knife for everyday wear as an aid to the rescue of the victim (rescuer's knife) and as an addition to the standard gunshot arms.
After the increasing incidence of attacks on police in order to seize their personal weapons, many employees feel the need for non-lethal weapons, which allows them to be obtained and applied as soon as possible without causing fatal injuries to the attacker. Often, employees cannot use service firearms in crowded places: at train stations, airports, metro stations, sports facilities, stadiums, etc. The only weapon in this situation is a knife. It can be instantly removed and inflicted on the attacker, dissecting or stabbing wounds in the area of the body, a lesion that does not lead to the death of the attacker, but completely neutralize it.
A good durable knife is especially in demand among traffic police officers and employees of the patrol and inspection service, transport police. They are the first to arrive at places with traffic accidents. They often need to break the side window of the car, remove the victim, cut off the safety belt that has been stuck in the holder, and give first aid by cutting bloodied clothes to inspect the damage. In these cases, the countdown is on minutes, and at hand is only a Makarov pistol. Pistol trying to break the side windows of the car. When breaking the glass, you should not allow an involuntary shot to the inside of the car, therefore break the glass with the pistol grip. After such manipulations with a weapon, it is necessary, at best, to be handed over for repair, and at worst - to be written off. Therefore, the knife must have a cullet area on the handle that allows you to effectively break the glass of the car.
In marching conditions, the Interior Ministry officer first of all needs to cook dinner, open the stew, cut bread, chop up branches for a fire and spruce branches for rest. In all these cases, we need not a combat knife, but an ordinary economic one. No normal person will take two knives with him to the mountains, he already has something to carry. In mountainous terrain, every gram of load matters.
The knife should be small in size, but weighty and durable. The weight of the knife is necessary when cutting branches and for other economic work. The blade thickness affects the strength characteristics of the knife. When working with the presented knife, the person should not be afraid to break the knife. The small size of the knife is relevant when patrolling streets with Ministry of Internal Affairs outfits on cars. A man with a knife on his belt should sit normally in a car, the knife should not prevent a person from being in a car for a long time while patrolling. The sheaths should allow fixing them under a regular leather trouser belt of a field uniform of an employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, a soldier. The combat effectiveness of the knife must be high enough so that you can inflict significant physical damage to the enemy.
1 drawing
All these criteria are most fully met by the knife shown in the 1 drawing. It is not a weapon and special means, its use does not require any changes in the law “On Police” in the sections “Use of special means and firearms”. This knife can be worn constantly, without fear of losing it. The loss of this knife does not entail any penalties, since it can be freely purchased. At the base of the knife handle there is a metal protrusion that allows you to inflict painful blows on the attacking enemy and allows you to smash the side windows of the cars. Seryotornaya sharpening on the butt of the blade allows you to effectively cut the ropes, ropes, seat belts, clothing of the victim. The blade of the knife has sharpening and descents located at different angles, which makes it convenient to cut relatively soft materials (wood, food, etc.) and hard materials (opening cans, zinc with cartridges, etc.). The large thickness of the knife and the blade, which is one with the shank, gives it enough weight required for cutting branches and branches, provides greater strength of the knife when it is bent. The blade is made of corrosion-resistant heat-treated steel 95X18, which provides the knife with good performance properties. Blade knife dagger type allows the enemy to cause extensive and deep wounds.
This design of the knife will also be in demand by people, often for a long time going to the forest, hunting, fishing, hiking.
The knife in the 1 drawing submitted for consideration is not a cold weapon according to four criteria: blade length 88 mm, blade thickness
6 mm, the tip of the blade has an angle of inclination 730, sharpening the blade on the bevel and part of the butt is less than 1 / 3 from the blade length (the length of the blade sharpening on the bevel 28,5 mm, blade length 88 mm). According to GOST R 51501-99 “Travel knives and special sport knives. General Specifications "The knife is not a cold weapon and is classified as a tourist knife (see pp. 4.16, 4.19, 5.2), therefore, its open wearing, use and use can not be limited to any regulations and regulations.
Below are the items GOST P 51501-99 and GOST P 51644-2000.
P. 4.16 For tourist and special sports knives, additional sharpening is possible on the bevel and the part of the butt for a length not exceeding the 1 / 3 blade (from its tip). The degree of such sharpening is not limited.
P. 4.19 Travel and special sports knives may have additional items and accessories like household (awl, corkscrew, opener, ax, compass, first aid kit, matches, durable cord, etc.), and special purpose (sharpened in the form of a hook for cutting ropes and a sling, a saw for a tree, made on the butt of the main blade, either as a separate item, fishing gear, screwdriver, etc.) that can be placed on the handle (in its cavity or on the top) or directly on the blade as well as the shank Tina (at transforming knives) in a sheath (sheath) of the knife.
P. 5.2 The thickness of the butt of blades with a hardness higher than 25 HRC of tourist and special sports knives is more than 2,4 mm in cases where the length of their blades is less than 90 mm.
GOST R 51644-2000 “Knives for cutting and skinning. General technical conditions. "
P. 4.6. In the design of blades and handles of cutting and skinning knives, the possibility of inflicting stabbing strikes characteristic of hunting knives in the specified cases should be excluded: the angle of convergence of the tip of the blade of the knife can exceed 70 °; blade butt thickness - exceed 5-6 mm; the point of the curved blade is located above the butt line by more than 5 mm; blade and handle - have a bend along the butt and the upper part in the form of a rocker with a deflection of more than 15-20 mm, there is no stopper and subfinger pockets on the handle, which makes it traumatic, etc.).
The author of these lines would very much like to hear the opinion of service people and just lovers and experts on knives about this knife. Write your opinions to my email: [email protected]. If I understand that it is needed for the employees of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, then there is a possibility that it will be adopted and given to the fighters as a trench tool.
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