RARE AES US M9 WEST GERMANY EICKHORN TRIAL MILITARY FIGHTING KNIFE SWORD
$242.00
SOLD
Offered is an original 1986 trial AES US M9 bayonet with scabbard by Eickhorn knives of West Germany.
Good ribbed plastic grips, with red centre 'electric current' disc and NBC indicator tabs, with moveable locking lugs, barrel locking mount, with majority of the original gun metal grey 17cm long, serrated blade, showing very light in and out use. Retains its correct plastic and metal scabbard, with locking dial and wire cutter attachment, with attached canvas belt frog, with grip fastening ties. Generally very good overall.
| In 1986 Eickhorn submitted an improved KCB 77 bayonet to the US Army bayonet trials for the new M9 bayonet. Eickhorn, as we all know, was not successful in obtaining the M9 bayonet contract. They felt that their product was superior to the winning design and the box for the AES M9 bayonet says "the genuine and better M9".? AES M9 has a neon indicator light in the grip that alerts the user to an electrical charge in a wire they may be cutting. A decal on the grip states that it is NBC (nuclear, biological and chemical) and Fungus resistant. The blade is also a standard Eickhorn pattern with a saw back and clip point. The lower end of the crossguard is bent at a right angle to act as a bottle opener.
The pommel is retained by a singe Phillips head screw. The upgraded model has what Eickhorn calls a pressure lubrification system.? The plastic scabbard is considerably longer than the bayonet blade. This is to provide greater leverage when used in conjunction with the bayonet blade as a wire cutter. Both scabbards are equipped with a plastic cover for the wire cutter assembly on the end of the scabbard. The upgraded scabbard has a spring tension adjustment knob on the face of the scabbard allowing the user to practically lock the bayonet in the scabbard. It also has an additional screw near the wire cutter assembly that is an adjustment screw to keep the bayonet blade tight to the cutter plate. The top end of the upgraded scabbard has 5 ribs to provide a better grip for use as a wire cutter. Both scabbards have a sapphire impregnated sharpener on the back side of the scabbard body near the mouth. |
