Why are bayonets that affect accuracy not eliminated?

Bayonets, which appeared in the era when hot weapons were just emerging, were hidden at ordinary times, but they flashed cold light in wartime, which made people tremble with fear. For hundreds of years, although it has always been someone else's wedding dress, it has always been active in the battlefield and has become the embodiment and symbol of brave spirit. Therefore, the image of bayonet often appears on the carrier of military honor such as medals, medals and monuments.

However, as a pure cold weapon, how did the bayonet cross the long river of history and enter the modern 2 1 century?

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Soviet multifunctional bayonet on AK rifle

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The origin of bayonet can be traced back to the beginning of16th century. At that time, muskets fired with gunpowder had appeared on the battlefield, and knives, swords, axes, spears and bows and arrows began to lose their former glory and gradually withdrew from the battlefield. Because of the slow shooting speed of early musketeers, musketeers and lancers often mixed into a phalanx to prevent the enemy from attacking when loading.

▲ The earliest plug-in bayonet and sleeve bayonet.

With the increase of musket firepower, the casualties of musketeers are also increasing. 1640, a French officer stationed in Baraona, southeast France, invented a bayonet that can be inserted into the muzzle of a musket. This is the ancestor of bayonet. Since the bayonet first appeared in the French city of Balaam, the name of this city has become the etymology of the English "Bayonet" bayonet. ?

However, this original bayonet is not compatible with rifles. Once the guns are mounted, the latter cannot be reloaded and fired. So in 1688, the French developed the sleeve bayonet. Bayonets not only provide musketeers with self-defense ability, but also ensure musketeers' shooting ability.

Although the large-scale application of firearms in China was later than that in the West, the bayonet development in China actually appeared at the same time as that in the West, or even earlier. In the third year of Chongzhen in Ming Dynasty (1630), both male and female birds recorded in Bing Lu were equipped with bayonets.

▲/kloc-Various bayonets used on guns before the 0/9th century.

The bayonet in the middle has a special blade and a big hand guard.

It can also be used as a saber when it is removed.

/kloc-after the 0/9th century, the gun manufacturing technology has made great progress, and the bayonet has also developed rapidly. The method of fixing the bayonet seat with bamboo shoots and muzzle rings has been widely adopted and has become the mainstream of bayonets, and knife bayonets have also begun to appear in large numbers.

Eastern battlefield, interpretation of gorgeous bayonet epic

With the emergence of automatic weapons such as machine guns and mortars, the role of white-edged charge and sea tactics is getting weaker and weaker, and the status of bayonets is gradually declining. In Europe, there are fewer and fewer examples of winning or losing with bayonets. On the contrary, bayonet hand-to-hand combat shines brilliantly in the eastern battlefield, and the Chinese and Japanese armed forces fought hand-to-hand combat many times on the battlefield, and fierce hand-to-hand combat broke out.

▲ Russian military fans repeat hand-to-hand combat in the Battle of Nomenham.

In the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, Japanese soldiers often fell behind when fighting bayonet with Japan. In addition to the technical gap in bayonet fighting, Japanese weapons played a key role. As the saying goes, "an inch is longer than an inch". At that time, when the Japanese widely equipped Yoshisaka 38 rifle was equipped with bayonets, it was often 5- 10 cm longer than the Hanyang rifle and the China official rifle of the National Army, which was enough to pierce your heart first! So on the battlefield, there are many tragic stories of China soldiers who have been stabbed and are still stabbing and mutually assured destruction with the enemy.

Some friends may ask, in this case, can't the problem be solved by lengthening the bayonet by 10- 15 cm? That's a good idea, but it's a pity that bayonets are difficult to make. In fact, in the early days of the Anti-Japanese War, neither the Kuomintang's arsenal nor the Party's arsenal had the ability to mass-produce high-quality bayonets.

There are two main reasons:

First, the output of steel is too small, almost zero. Precious steel, giving priority to making guns or bayonets? Bayonets consume considerable steel. How good is it to save more and make more guns? Many second-rate troops of the national army can't even do one gun per person. Is there a rifle or a bayonet urgent?

Although the equipment is poor, it is full of blood.

Second, the basic industries are weak. At that time, the domestic steel quality and bayonet heat treatment technology were very poor. Due to steel and technology, bayonets made in China and Hanyang are of poor quality, and bending and rusting are very common. In contrast, the Japanese Type 30 bayonet used by South China's army in the Korean War since World War II has never been said to be of poor quality.

▲ Anti-Japanese War soldier model, the armed forces of various countries generally carry broadswords with bayonets.

The distrust of domestic bayonets can be seen.

Although the bayonet is a cold weapon, it requires a standardized processing flow. Bayonets have springs, scabbard, blood grooves, bamboo shoots, snap rings and so on. , and a slight deviation can't be installed. Handmade bayonets obviously can't meet the army's demand for standardized mass production of bayonets.

▲ The "Bayi Horse Rifle" designed by the Eighth Route Army itself adopted bayonets.

Processing is relatively simple, which is very difficult for steel.

Low-requirement folding triangular bayonet

The bayonet in the new era is an indispensable and important role.

Since it came out, with the development of firearms and war situation, the design idea of bayonet has gradually changed. In World War I, soldiers generally reflected that long bayonets were not suitable for use in narrow trenches, so the US military shortened the 16 inch M 1905 bayonet to 10 inch, and the shortened bayonet was called M 1905E 1, which was later known as M/kloc-.

After World War II, some troops began to dismantle bayonets, and most of the troops that kept bayonets were replaced with more common knives or swords. At the same time of shortening the length, the bayonet also began to develop into multi-function.

It has the functions of sawing, stabbing, cutting and shearing.

It is an indispensable multi-purpose tool for soldiers.

Of course, the traditional role of bayonets is still preserved in case soldiers' guns fail or ammunition is insufficient to fight. Because under certain conditions, the bayonet may also become the protagonist of the battle, and the balance that determines the outcome is tilted to which side.

1982 During the Falklands War, the British army suddenly launched a bayonet charge and seized the position of the Afghan army on Mount Langton, and successfully captured the position of the Afghan army at the expense of 29 people killed and 50 people destroyed. 22 years later, in 2004, 20 British soldiers were ambushed by more than 100 Iraqi militants. In the case of insufficient ammunition, the British army once again collectively charged with bayonets. As a result, a * * * wiped out 35 militants, and only 3 were slightly injured.

▲ The British army chose to charge with bayonets. Is it brave?

Or because of the reliability of the L-85 rifle?

It is an old tradition for our army to dare to see the red with a bayonet, and it is unambiguous in actual combat. On March 1979, 1, in the counterattack against Vietnam, in order to seize the gateway to Anpei, an important town in Sabah, northern Vietnam, our army launched an eight-hour attack on the mountain pass on the north side of Xinzhai, and finally defeated the defending Vietnamese army through fierce hand-to-hand combat.

It's not really popular. I can't open the can when I eat.

You have to borrow a kitchen knife from the cookhouse squad to cut a wire.

Although the above three examples contain the results of firearms, they can still prove that even under modern conditions, it is necessary to maintain a certain intensity of bayonet training, especially in the case of mixed enemy and enemy, night attack, etc., hand-to-hand combat often receives unexpected miraculous effects.

The Legend and Truth of Bayonet

During the development of bayonets, for various reasons, there are some jokes and misunderstandings about bayonets among military fans. What kind of jokes are these? Is it true?/You don't say. /You don't say.

Proverbs 1, bayonets affect shooting accuracy.

In the episode of Brothers Company in operation market garden, Daniel said to the recruits, "Hey, if you puncture the knife, you won't hit it!" So, will installing a bayonet definitely affect the shooting accuracy? There are two main explanations for this statement.

The first is the center of gravity.

For shooting accuracy, in addition to correct aiming, the key is to maintain the stability of the gun body at the moment of firing, and the bayonet is just easy to destroy this stability. Adding a bayonet is equivalent to increasing the weight of the muzzle, amplifying the shaking of the muzzle, and making it more difficult for the shooter to keep the gun body stable.

▲ Bayonets do affect the muzzle airflow.

The second is the theory of airflow field.

When the muzzle is too close to the ground, the ground will affect the muzzle flow field. Therefore, the muzzle should not be too close to the ground when shooting, otherwise the bullet will float. Similarly, if there is a bayonet under the barrel, the hit point will be on the upper side. Of course, in close-up shooting, this deviation is often negligible.

▲ SVD sniper rifle with bayonet

This is not a real sniper rifle.

Some people here may ask, since bayonets really affect shooting accuracy, why do SVD sniper rifles also have bayonets?

In fact, the SVD of the Soviet Union is not a high-precision sniper rifle, nor is it a sniper rifle used by professional snipers. Under the Sino-Soviet system, this is essentially a high-precision rifle equipped for ordinary infantry squadrons, platoons and companies, and is usually directly equipped for accurate shooters in infantry companies, rather than professional snipers fighting independently.

▲ This buddy is not a professional sniper at first glance.

In battle, the accurate shooter needs to charge forward like an ordinary infantry, instead of lurking in the rear to suppress it, so it is not surprising to equip the rifle with bayonets. In real professional sniper rifles, bayonets are basically not equipped.

Legend 2: Why do Japanese submachine guns and machine guns need bayonets?

During World War II, Japan's equipment design thought has been very wonderful, divorced from the mainstream of military development. Japan's high-level thinking still stays in the primitive era of "if you can kill the enemy with one bullet, why should you fire a bunch of bullets to consume resources?" Therefore, the Japanese melee criterion must be to use bayonet melee to save ammunition.

A hundred submachine guns made under this operational idea are equipped with bayonet seats. In addition to the bayonet seat, there is also a tripod and a ruler that can aim at 1500 meters away (of course, it can't reach this distance at all), making the Hundred-style submachine gun a wonderful work in the submachine gun world-a submachine gun with tripod (light machine gun function) and bayonet (hand-to-hand combat)!

▲ submachine gun with bayonet, machine gun with bayonet.

The powerful Japanese only need to mount bayonets on their pistols.

▲ In fact, the MP28 submachine gun used by the Germans is also equipped with bayonets.

▲ Jian Zihao submachine guns can be bayoneted.

But this is just an emergency, not the main battlefield.

Legend 3: The Japanese army will return the bullets in the gun before stabbing.

For a long time, there has been a saying that the Japanese army will take back all the bullets in its guns before engaging in hand-to-hand combat, so as to prevent accidental injury in the battle, and at the same time show the bushido spirit and determination to fight to the death, and even write the requirements for taking back bullets into the infantry code. This statement has been used in many movies and literary works, such as The Battle of Taierzhuang and The Battle of Taihang Mountain, which were filmed by China in the early days, and those things about that rabbit that year, which were filmed recently, all show that the Japanese army withdrew its bullets before stabbing.

In fact, this is a complete misinformation.

First of all, the main Japanese infantry weapons-Type 30, Type 38 and later Type 99 rifles, all have perfect insurance institutions, so that the usual knocking will not cause fire. When fighting, the right hand holds the neck of the stock and generally does not touch the trigger.

Secondly, all kinds of rifles made in Japan are manual rifles that use rotary pullers. To take all five bullets out of the magazine, you have to repeat the process of pushing and pulling the bolt five times, which is enough time for the other party to rush to your face. Moreover, in the ever-changing battlefield, the transformation of various combat States is very rapid and sudden. It is obviously unreasonable to remove all the bullets without hand-to-hand combat and pick them up and reload them.

The reason for this legend may be that the safety of manual rifles is generally on the bolt, standing at a certain distance. From the opponent's point of view, the various operations on the bolt are really easy to be confused, and it is very likely that the action of checking the insurance will be regarded as returning bullets.

In fact, there is also a rumor about the triangle bayonet, because the previous article will not be repeated here. If you want to see it, please click "China triangle bayonet is highly toxic, which makes the wound difficult to sew. Is it banned internationally?" Stop it! "Reading.

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In the information war, all kinds of high-tech weapons are dazzling, and non-contact precision strike has become two irresistible trends. The application scope of bayonets has been greatly reduced, and hand-to-hand combat has become extremely rare. Bayonets are more in the hands of military parade guards.

However, the military is a highly realistic field. As long as a weapon or equipment is useful, it will be retained, no matter what type it belongs to. As one of the important symbols of military strength, bayonet is still irreplaceable.

On the battlefield, for a soldier who has run out of ammunition and food, "bayonet!" "It not only means the beginning of the charge/counterattack, but also means that the battle is about to enter the most tragic and cruel stage, and it is the last symbol of his defense of military honor. Only the warriors who dare to meet the enemy and charge with bayonets are the warriors who truly win respect!