ARmy Rumour SErvice

**Mark The Convict** · 14-03-2011, 01:47

I must raise this topic at my next glittering dinner party.

**sandmanfez** · 14-03-2011, 01:55

I post this every time someone mentions bayonets.
Enjoy.

YouTube - How to KILL with a Bayonet!

**Ape101** · 14-03-2011, 02:03

Originally Posted by sandmanfez

I post this every time someone mentions bayonets.
Enjoy.

YouTube - How to KILL with a Bayonet!

+1

IMA SHOW YOU HOW TO KILL WIYA BAYONET. He's definatly slotted someone with a bayonette.

**Mattb** · 14-03-2011, 09:24

Originally Posted by Mark The Convict

The reasons were that it can be attacked from all sides, contains windpipe, spine and arteries, won't trap the blade when he collapses (unlike the ribs) and the enemy will instinctively try to protect it.

Surely the fact that the enemy will try and protect it would be a good reason not to go for it? Bayonetting someone in the arm - whilst certainly inconvenient - isn't going to kill someone, whereas a bayonet in the chest is really going to cause the enemy problems. Not to mention the fact that it's a much smaller target - it's a little like the arguments for shooting at the centre mass rather than going for a head shot.

**Mark The Convict** · 14-03-2011, 09:32

Quite so; I suppose that while he's trying to protect himself, he's not trying to kill you. I imagine troops are taught to target the torso because it's bigger. You wouldn't want to miss with your first thrust, either way.

**PE4rocks** · 14-03-2011, 11:29

Originally Posted by Adil javed 253

he postings about the action last Friday involving the Argylls and the PWRR; has this knocked on the head the old chestnut that the bayonet is outdated on the 'modern' battlefield (ironic, as I recall reading that it was heavily used in th

Spooky, perhaps he's been bayoneted...

**STABARMR** · 14-03-2011, 14:07

Originally Posted by Mattb

Surely the fact that the enemy will try and protect it would be a good reason not to go for it? Bayonetting someone in the arm - whilst certainly inconvenient - isn't going to kill someone, whereas a bayonet in the chest is really going to cause the enemy problems. Not to mention the fact that it's a much smaller target - it's a little like the arguments for shooting at the centre mass rather than going for a head shot.

Exactly wot i was taught, aim for chest. Bigger target than going for groin or neck.