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AKM |
Knife bayonet for use with the 7.62 mm. North Korean Type 68 rifle, a variant of the Kalashnikov AKM assault rifle.
The steel scabbard's web belt hanger measures 4.25 in. (108 mm.) long by 0.875 in. (22 mm.) wide. The tan webbing identifies this scabbard as Cuban. North Korean issue AKM bayonets have scabbards with green webbing. Furnished by Cuba, these bayonets were used by Panamanian paramilitary “Dignity Battalions,” formed in 1988 to put down demonstrations against the Noriega government and to resist the expected U.S. invasion (which came in December 1989). The Dignity Battalions earned the lasting nickname, “dingbats,” when U.S. invasion commander, General Maxwell Thurman, was quoted in the Christmas Day edition of the New York Times, saying that Panamanian strongman Manuel Noriega was holed-up in the Vatican Mission, which he (Thurman) had surrounded with a “goodly number” of U.S. troops because, “I don't want the dingbats blowing their way through the embassy.” |
5.75 |
146 | 10.625 |
270 | .700 |
17.8 | Crosspiece: "7994" |
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