Glock surveyor

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Glock surveyor
Surveyor 78
Information
Weapon type: Knife, combat knife, surveyor
Designations: Surveyor 78
Use: Combat knife
Creation time: after 1978
Working time: from 1978
Region of origin /
author: 		Glock GmbH
Distribution: various armed forces
Overall length: 290 mm
Blade length: 165 mm
Blade thickness: 5 mm
Weight: 206 grams
Handle: Polymer handle
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Surveyor 81

The Glock surveyor is an Austrian surveyor . The knife is manufactured by the Glock company in the versions field knife 78 and field knife 81 and used by the armed forces and various other nations. It can also be used as a bayonet for the Steyr AUG and the assault rifle 58 . The Danish version is called Feltkniv M / 96 .

History and conception

The Austrian army used the 1917 dagger knife pattern in the past . In the 1970s, the knife was developed in close cooperation with the hunting command of the Federal Army . According to the specifications of the armed forces, a competition was announced in which the manufacturers Zeiler and Glock participated. Glock was able to prevail in the tender. Some also believe that the Zeiler company first designed a field knife and, due to its bankruptcy, Glock took over the production of a significantly revised knife.

The Glock field knife corresponds to the tradition that every soldier should carry such a knife and the knife must be able to be used both for combat and as a tool. As early as the First World War , the German and Austro-Hungarian armies made sure that the so-called trench daggers could be used as all-purpose knives for a variety of soldiers and tasks. A different approach has been taken in other countries. In France, the USA, Italy and Great Britain, on the other hand, only small selected associations were equipped with dagger-like combat knives. These dagger-like combat knives were intended exclusively as combat knives and never for mass use by large parts of the army. Such dagger constructions specialize in easy penetration and have a thinner blade on both sides, e.g. B. the Fairbairn – Sykes combat knife . The Glock field knife, on the other hand, has a comparatively thick blade that does not break even under the toughest loads and uses as a tool. So it is possible to use the knife for digging or as a bottle or can opener. The field knife can still be used as a throwing knife.

technical description

The Glock field knife has a handle made of polymer plastic . The plastic handle is based on an idea by Gaston Glock . At the time the knife was designed, this was an unusual but very innovative choice of material. By using plastic instead of beech wood for the handles, the price and weight of the knife could be reduced. The same plastic is used for the Glock pistol . The handle is available in olive, black, gray and sand. The blade is made of burnished SAE 1095 55 HRC steel. The blade is 165 mm long. Overall, the field knife is 290 mm long and weighs 206 grams.

There are two versions of the knife:

  • Field knife 78: blade without saw teeth (official field knife of the armed forces)
  • Field knife 81: blade with saw teeth (this version was never used by the armed forces).

Use as a survival knife / conversion suggestion for the knife by Rüdiger Nehberg

The Glock field knife is a popular survival knife. The blade is made of carbon steel. Compared to ordinary stainless steel blades, the field knife is easier to sharpen and more stable, but tends to rust a little more easily when wet. The first-mentioned advantages outweigh the disadvantages in outdoor use.

Survival expert Rüdiger Nehberg used the surveyor on many tours. In his book Let's fetz: Today the rest of life begins , he made the proposal to optimize the knife for survival tours by replacing the original handle with a copper tube. Other objects could then be stowed in the hollow space of the copper pipe. However, due to the changed balance, the knife could no longer be used as a throwing knife.

use

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bayonets of Austria. In: worldbayonets.com. Retrieved August 24, 2015 .
  2. ^ World Bayonets. Austria. Image of Glock Knife mounted on Steyr AUG. In: worldbayonets.com (PDF)
  3. ↑ Information sheet from the Hugo Schürer Collection
  4. ↑ Wolfdieter Hufnagel: Jagdkommando , 2000, ISBN 978-3613020795 , p. 142.
  5. ^ Robb Manning: Glock Reference Guide , 2015, ISBN 978-1-4402-4335-6 , p. 167.
  6. ↑ Hans-Jörg Kriebel: Survival - life and survival in the wilderness: a practical book , 2012, p. 175.
  7. ↑ Dietmar Pohl: Messer German Special Units , 2005, ISBN 978-3613025264 , p. 103.
  8. ↑ Robert Schneider: Luxembourg Palace Guard soon (properly) armed again. In: tageblatt.lu. December 4, 2017. Retrieved December 8, 2017 .
  9. ↑ Dietmar Pohl: Messer German Special Units , 2005, ISBN 978-3613025264 , p. 182.
  10. ↑ Paweł supernate: Nóż w službách mundurowych. In: Broń i amunicja 01/2010