Comments by "Britta Kriep" (@brittakriep2938) on "M1 Carbine: A Whole New Class of Weapon" video.

  1. That's nothing. Knives are in use from stone age to now.
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  2.  @lafeeshmeister  : I am a man, only using my girlfriends account. I am 55 now, but for the reason of bad eyes, i had not to serve in the Bundeswehr as conscript, so i have no military training or expierience. But i think, i have the answer to your question, why about close quarter fights is more spoken and thougt about. Wien my father was young, he spoke with some veterans from trench warfare oft wwl. My father asked one time two of those men, which thing oft war was the most terrible for you? The answer of both men, was a thing, my father did not expect: The enemies assault! Most oft the wartime they could not see their enemies, but at an assault you see , like your ancestors centuries ago, an armed angry enemy with grimm face attacking you. And this thing, you don' t shot an unseen or faceless enemy in a distance, but an enemy next to you is the thing, why there are so much emotions about fights with knives or Pistole.
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  3.  @herbderbler1585  : My comment was written more as a joke, than serious. I , german, simply wanted to make fun about the american ,oh our glorious Colt 1911 is in military use since 1911!'. A knife is both weapon and tool for thousnds of years. In very old ,warrior' times knives ( and daggers) had been important weapons also in battle. But with the rise of firearms, knives and daggers became a ,last backup' for soldiers, and when in early 18th century the daggerlike plugbayonnetts had been replaced by gripless spike bayonnets, daggers and weapon knives mostly disappeared in regular european troops. But in wwl , for trench warfare, knives appeared again as weapons. But , as a german arms magazine wrote, the trench knives have seen more saussage fat than human blood'. So most of the modern military field knives are dual purpose items, useable as a tool, but on rare incidents also as a weapon. But we should not forget, when used as a close quarters combat weapon , especially in a ,surprise attack', knives are very dangerous and often underrated!
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