AK47,
AKM ad AK74 Bayonet Types
AK47 Bayonets
These have no bayo lug and use the
true AK47 style bayonet
AKM Bayonets (Type One, Transitional, Type Two)
AK74 Bayonets (Type Two, AK74)
This Type Two attached to the grenade
launcher
Other
Bayonet Types
Plug
Type - Early bayonets
were of the "plug" type. The bayonet had a
round handle that fit directly into the musket barrel.
This naturally prevented the gun from being fired.
Socket
Bayonets - At the end of the seventeenth century
the French introduced the socket bayonet. This contained
a sleeve fitting round the barrel and was locked into
place with a slot and stud. This enabled the gun to
be fired with the bayonet firmly secured in place. This
type of bayonet was adopted by nearly all the Europeans
armies.
Many socket bayonets were triangular in
order to privide sideways stability of the blade without
much increase in weight. This design of bayonet did
not include a handle to use the blade apart from the
gun.
Folding
Bayonets - As the bayonet turned from being
primarily a defensive weapon to being a personal offensive
weapon the difficulties of a fixed bayonet in battle
led most armies to adopt permanently-attached bayonets
which folded above or below the barrel of the rifle.
Knife
Blade Bayonet - Modern bayonets are often knife-shaped
with handles and a socket
Needle
Bayonet - Many bayonets are triangular with
cross-sectional blades permanently attached to the rifle
as with the SKS
Saw-Bladed
- Many Warsaw Pact bayonets have a saw pattern
cut int the back of a knife blade for use as a tool
and as a more effictive weapon.
Other
Bayonet Facts:
- The
push-twist motion of fastening the modern bayonet
has given name to several connectors and contacts
including the BNC ("Bayonet Neill-Concelman")
connector.
- In
the Geneva Accords on Humane Warfare, triangular and
cross-sectional bayonets were outlawed because the
wounds they produce do not close easily, and were
said to be inhumane. Despite these limitations, all
modern bayonets have a blood groove, which is a concave
depression in the blade designed to prevent the elastic
properties of the human body from thwarting a successful
bayonet thrust. Such a groove also facilitates removal
of the bayonet after insertion, although this does
nothing to help in cases where the blade is jammed
in bone
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