Kalashnikov Bayonets of the World

This bayonet, without scabbard, has a peculiarity. A marking is engraved on one side of the AB 3221 blade and on the other on the opposite side, cross guard, C 568. This last marking seems to have been carried out as on Polish bayonets. Do you have an explanation?

Letter prefixe R

I bought it last week on a French site (naturabuy). A similar model was on sale on the todocolleciones site last month.

No drain hole on the front or back

When putting away my bayonets, I realized that the hangers could be reversed. Do you have an explanation ?

In this group photo, we can see that the scabbard is entirely bluish black and not bi-color.

Perhaps. It cannot be seen very well in the photo but the color of the scabbard is bluish black like on the other three models

Here is my last acquisition. This bayonet East German that we can see represented in this book. Can someone give me more details? I know the 3 commonly seen models but not this one with a different scabbard.

They may have kept the habits of the American and French armies of the last century which marked all the equipment "US" or "Armée Française ".

Certainly, however, it would seem that this type of bayonet (yugo and Hungarian) were or are used by the engineer troops for demining and not for combat as evidenced by these photos. In addition a mark is made on the blade (M70). Then it is the first time that I see on sale a Hungarian bayonet marke...

According to the bayonet site. lv, the state of Israel purchased a number of these bayonets for the engineer troops. On another site, it is indicated that these bayonets were captured during the Israel-Arab war, which is plausible because the Iranian (Hezbollah) and Iraqi armies were equipped with A...

After a good cleaning

Today I received this bayonet from Israel. I bought it on eBay from an Israeli seller who only offers IDF equipment. You can see the tzadik on the handle. Here are pictures of identical bayonets from the bayonet.lv site.

A large part of these bayonets as well as the pixel scabbard were bought from a Czech seller on eBay but who closed his account. Here are photos of the Slovak camouflage.

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My collection of Vz 58 bayonets and three scabbards, two Czechs, one Slovak.

I have two R number bayonets. For one the number is engraved in hollow the other is in relief. Can you give me an explanation on these different marking techniques?

The same five bayonets

In these photos, of the looting of the barracks of the Albanian army, we can see in the photo of the man alone, that the bayonet seems pointed.

In this picture of Chinese soldiers, it looks like the bayonet is pointed