The socket bayonet began as a brutal fix for a brutal problem: musketeers needed a way to fight like spearmen once the shot was fired. By wrapping the blade around the barrel instead of plugging it, ...

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Of all things military that people like to collect, bayonets are among the most popular. And why not? They are relatively inexpensive, easy to display and come in hundreds of iterations. There is also ...

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Peter Monteath receives funding from Flinders University. Even the sound of a bayonet could be frightening. The audible whetting of blades in the enemy’s trenches could puncture a night’s rest with ...

It defeated the Zulu Impi at Rourke's Drift, terrified the Germans in Flanders Fields and routed the Argentinians during the Falklands War. Now the bayonet, one of the oldest weapons in the Army's ...