Are these meme knives?
>>29884766
>meme
Stop abusing that word and perhaps you will get a none "meme" answer.
>meme means overrated
>>29884766
Nope, but this is.
>>29884766
Yes, there are better options
>>29885184
kek!
>>29885165
none?
its good at stabbing, and if its really sharp its good at cutting
>>29885332
Develop your hypothesis
>>29885294
It is a killing knife, it is good for stabbing and not much else and has ended a lot of lives, if you want a general knife you can get much better for a lot cheaper but the Fairbairn-Sykes is not a joke.
you mostly use knives for utility purposes and the tip of the F-S will snap with utility use
>>29885232
for killing? theres little to nothing better as far as knives go
everything else? there are WAY better options
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDGHKyB3T_U
>>29885440
That guy has some stories no doubt.
>>29885484
How the british have fallen into cuckdom in the space of two generations
>>29885440
Ah yes, good ol Grandpa Throat ripper.
>>29885359
He's got the idea. It is not a multi-purpose and/or survival knife. Thing was created with one purpose in mind and that was killing, it's also not that good for stabbing and was more used in stable position and pulling target onto the knife vs thrusting into them.
>>29885498
You can say the same about us and our election between a lunatic and a literal cuckquean.
>>29885540
>lunatic
Implying
>>29885498
still not as fast as the japs
>>29885552
wanting your country to have secure borders?
what are you, some kind of racist lunatic!?
>>29885561
America should hit the japs with a nuke not a stick
>>29885552
>lunatic
Trump let 4 businesses go bankrupt and was bailed out as it was cheaper for the investors to bail him out than let him sink, Hillary is a known criminal but people do not give a shit, we are fucked either way.
>>29885561
lel
>>29885523
Just stop.
The pulling into is just a better combination for catching someone off guard and putting metal inside of them. I'm falling what's inside of me. Vs.?I'm standing what's inside of me is a better situation for the attacker.
>>29885603
>businessman navigated the business world in a way that was beneficial to himself
you know that the vast majority of businesses fail, right?
In order to be successful as an entrepreneur you have to first take on a lot of risks and even for the best business people ventures more often flop than succeed.
People like Bernie Sanders and Karl Marx paint your ignorant picture of what buisness people do because they never worked real jobs in their entire lives.
>>29885552
He supports high tarrifs and wants a trade war with mexico so they pay for the wall lol
>>29885638
>even for the best business people ventures more often flop than succeed.
And he will do that for America, better hope he does not flop like the statistics say he should. Don't get me wrong I trust him more than Shillary but this is like choosing which foot you want to shoot yourself in.
>>29884766
It is a killing knife. It is meant for a single thing, killing humans. However, 99.99 percent of even the most elite third elchelon black ops OPER8ORS operating operationally in areas of the world where their home country would disavow any knowledge of their existence will do their killing with a fucking gun.
Better to get a knife that can actually do some utility work as well as being a sharp piece of metal that can pierce squishy people.
>>29885676
He'll use the free market and competition instead of just stealing more money from people with real jobs to fund inefficient programs that focus primarily on justifying their own existence?
What a looney toon!
>>29885436
See, this is why its a meme knife just like karambits and katana "no knife is deadlier"
The f/s had distinct flaws that were recognized by the people who were actually using them, the tip was fragile, the tang junction weak, the handle was slick and it didn't orient the edge. The kabar and mk3 trench knife were among the most popular knives in the war for special forces, the mk3 went over like gangbusters with airborne and elite soldiers in the US, with everyone in this Italian theatre and the SAS, they also loved kabars
If you want to see a better dagger look at the Applegate fairbairn knife, it took everything that was good about the f/s and got rid of most of the weaknesses, its definitely one of the most well designed daggers on the market right now
>>29885711
>free market
>tariffs all around
Sure bud.
>>29885569
>Implying the Trumpwall will be secure, on the miracle that it can be afforded
>>29886040
>on the miracle that it can be afforded
Yeah, Mexico's economy is pretty shit.
>>29885569
The wall wouldn't work. The US/mexico border is already the most heavily fortified border between any two non warring countries on earth.
>>29885436
>theres little to nothing better as far as knives go
>>29888597
>literally not a knife
>>29885881
Katanas are a meme, because they were objectively poorly made swords. They were 2000 years late to the whole folding and hammering metal and they never improved the design. Karambits are a meme because they're poorly designed and look cool, so kids go ape shit over them. The Sykes was designed solely to kill people, but was inadequately constructed. It's just a dagger with a few tweaks. That doesn't make it a meme. There aren't any inherent flaws with the design of the knife.
Well if you want a knife for anything other than shanking sentries, there are undoubtedly better options.
But for shanking sentries it worked just fine back in the day, so there's no reason to assume it wouldn't now.
>>29884766
Question:
Why using stabbing specialized weapon when medieval armor faded away centuries ago
>>29886150
America's aint looking too good either when it comes to building a wall that size and length, and staffing it, and maintaining it when the current system is probaly going to be 95% as effective anyway.
Sure they could do it. But it'd be a tremendous waste of money thats desperately needed elsewhere.
>>29887915
No, Israel-Palestinian border is. Cause technically they're not at war even though everybody is just standing on opposite sides of the border screaming "fuck u fight me irl bro"
>>29888931
Because slashing skin/muscle doesn't kill, /k/ommando, piercing organs does.
>>29889001
But slashing muscle/tendons at joints can incapacitate just as quickly. Or you can always slash to the windpipe, carotid artery, brachial artery, or jugular vein since all of those are soft spots and relatively easy to get at with a slashing weapon.
>>29889014
You can still slash with a dagger. The dagger just performs both. Stabbing is still more deadly.
>>29889033
Just as you can penetrate with a normal bayonet.
>>29888876
"were objectively poorly made swords"
I understand you take pride in being an uneducated edgelord with elitist opinions, but let me rain on your parade a bit. Without going into petty opinionated details about how you are just ignorant about the physics behind the bladeshape, I can say that you have absolutely no idea what you are talking about when it comes to the superiority of japans historical forging process compared to the rest of the world at the time.
They made way better steel that was stronger, and more flexible. You can bitch and moan all you want about weaboos and how you don't like the blade shape of a katana, but when it comes to their forging process, the quality of their steel, and the quality of the finished product that was feudal era sword making, you have no fucking idea what you are talking about.
>>29889051
I found the weeaboo.
Educate yourself about medieval European and Celtic swords, or keep praising your Japanese meme sword.
>>29889070
This. Requesting that video of the guy who studies feudal sword-making and European and Japanese techniques who basically broke a katana trying to cut a Nordic sword?
>>29885603
>let 4 businesses go bankrupt
Out of how many businesses?
>>29889051
>Japanese steel
>Quality
I raffed.
>>29889070
And as someone who actually is educated about such topics, and who has seen their forging process first hand, as well as the japanese forging process, I can tell you as an Engineer that japan had superior quality steel. The icelandic and especially more western euro countries suffered from impurities in their steel, brittleness, and poor edge retention due to attempts at what you might call 'mass production' and 'lazy' forging habits.
Japan had a greater understanding of how to treat metals during the forging process than their European counterparts and generally spent more time on one weapon than a typical euro blacksmith would spend on 3 blades.
>>29889102
>Spending more time makes it good.
Folding steel is shit. Europeans did it first, but moved on to better things because they didn't have shit iron deposits. The Japanese continued doing it because they just could not make better metal with what they had available on their little island.
>>29889102
Heh, nothing personal kid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XLWzH_1eZsc
You literally know nothing. Typical weeb. Actually read a book(i.e. not manga) sometime.
>>29885184
Truly ebin.
>>29889138
Go to that effort and they're all still creased in the legs from being folded up.
>>29889138
>Comment section
>LIES!!!! Katana is awesome. My fathers uncles 2nd cousin thrice removed adopted identical twin half-brother from the Navy saw a Zero with a katana attached to the propeller slice the Arizona in half.
Kek'd
>>29888848
>A knife (plural knives) is a tool with a cutting edge or blade, hand-held or otherwise, with most having a handle. Some types of knives are used as utensils, including knives used at the dining table (e.g., butter knives and steak knives) and knives used in the kitchen (e.g., paring knife, bread knife, cleaver). Many types of knives are used as tools, such as the utility knife carried by soldiers, the pocket knife carried by hikers and the hunting knife used by hunters. Knives are also used as a traditional or religious implement, such as the kirpan. Some types of knives are used as weapons, such as the daggers used by commandos or the switchblades used by 1950s-era criminal gang members. Some types of knives are used as sports equipment (e.g., throwing knives). Knives are also used in agriculture, food harvesting etc, the sickle, the scythe and even the combine harvester are knives.
>Some types of knives are used as weapons, such as the daggers
>A Khanjali (Adyghe: Къaмэ,Georgian: ხანჯალი or Kinzhal when translating the Russian Кинжaл) is a double-edged dagger often with a single off-set groove on each face of the blade, and a secondary weapon used in Georgia and the Caucasus since ancient times.
>double-edged dagger
>dagger
>knife
>you opinion is invalid
>>29888982
>He hasn't seen the DMZ
>>29885403
I can confirm this because I was being a drunk twat.
>>29887915
>The wall wouldn't work. The US/mexico border is already the most heavily fortified border between any two non warring countries on earth.
HAHAHA HOLY FUCKING SHIT IM DYING
>>29888962
>But it'd be a tremendous waste of money thats desperately needed elsewhere.
true goyim just ignore the illegal immigrants hehe no human is illegal remember?
>>29889094
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ev4lW0wbnX8
>>29889206
not him but it still wouldn't work.
most illegal immigrants don't get here hopping the border, but by overstaying their visas
>>29890243
And US should deport their ass.
Honestly just make employers have to ask for US identification.
>>29890749
They just do work that Americans don't wanna do anyway
Seriously vegetables are important to human dietary needs and Americans won't do nothing in regards to harvesting fruits and veggies
>>29890837
Not to mention eating them
>>29885440
those hands have seen many fights
>>29884766
Um.... Not if your looking for a battle proven fighting knife. Look it's simple:
>"meme" anything means there's a gimmick or joke attached
>Fairbairn Sykes, designed by guys who knew what they were doing from training and experience. It's no frills, no gimmicks
>is it effective?
Yes. It does what it was designed to do. Make people bleed by inserting the pointy end into the other guy.
>is this proven?
Yes. It had a track record of reliably making people bleed by putting the pointy end in the other guy.
>is it a "special edition", customized, or somehow improved over the original?
Nope. They all work the same way. Pointy end goes into the other guy.
>is it popular because it's endorsed by a celebrity/ "used by operators"/ preferred by ninjas?
Nope. It's popular cause it works. Pointy end goes into the other guy. Guy bleeds.
You see the pattern?
>>29890837
no, they are just able to be exploited by ranchers and work for near nothing. And your right americans don't want to pick vegetables for 20$ a day.
>>29884766
IDK anon, maybe reading will provide suitable answers instead of asking neckbeards who only own cold steel knives.
I'm a britfag, I want a Sykes for the history and novelty, are there any modern repros that are identical to the real thing? That I can also get in Britain?
knives are not meme able. duh.
>>29892401
Sheffield makes one that's allegedly to mod standards but I don't know if its any good
Fairbairn had more to do with the knife than Sykes did, btw
>>29892474
I always forget to how to spell Fairbairn.
>>29892491
Yeah its fucked up, I'm not sure if I say it right
Another cool British knife is the sa80 bayonet especially if you can get one with a sheath
>>29892474
I've seen some reviews online that say the Sheffield one is toss. Any others?
Anything can be memeable. This post is memeable.
>>29884766
>is X an meme ?
just fucking killyourself
>>29885638
Dude... he couldn't keep a CASINO open in ATLANTIC CITY.
That's like starving to death in Burger King with a hundred dollars in ones in your pocket.
>>29888914
>But for shanking sentries it worked just fine back in the day, so there's no reason to assume it wouldn't now.
Well considering that knives aren't really deadly in the modern world it probably won't work so well.
>>29892401
Macdonald Armouries, but they arent cheap, and a long waiting list.
>>29894170
>considering that knives aren't really deadly in the modern world
yeah. its amazing how people have grown immune to stabbing.
Oh, wait. no.
you know, even by /k/'s comically low standards, you're a fucking moron.
>>29889051
>Japsteel
>good quality
have fun extracting iron-oxide dust out of sand to make a sword
>>29884766
It's an ideal fighting knife.
However, knives are not ideal fighting tools.
Think of it like a dorodango: shit that has been polished to perfection.
>>29894391
>>29889102
>>29889070
>>29889051
Both the jap steel is shit and jap steel is great people are retarded. European swords were not always perfect glorious monosteel, and Japanese swords weren't terrible pieces of shit.
It was a laborious process to extract and work iron in Japan. This is true. This lower quality did not extend to the finished product, however. The folding and working resulted in steel of comparable quality to many European weapons, albeit requiring more effort.
A katana is just a sword. It isn't a piece of shit, it isn't a god weapon, it's just a fucking sword. It was useful for killing people in its intended use as a sidearm, and has some good aspects and some bad aspects compared to European and other weapons that came about as the result of the conditions it was made and used in.
Stop dickwaving about it.
>>29889033
Daggers are shit for slashing. Dedicated cutting knives will do that job much better.
Compare a saex to a a fairbairn-sykes.
>>29894199
Oh boy those are expensive.Any others that wont cost me an arm and a leg?
