Very many of our contemporaries, the direct participants in the fighting in hot spots, to truly understand the importance of presence in the equipment fighter bayonet knife as an indispensable assistant in achieving victory in the melee with the enemy, survival in extreme conditions.
Experts studying the history and development of cold weapons, claiming that the first use of a knife, complete with firearms recorded in the mid-sixteenth century.It was then that first appeared Bagineti - a knife with a modified design of the handle, which is a prototype of a rifle bayonet.
The story of Bagineti
Understand Bagineti considering that this is a known precursor of the bayonet, is quite difficult.Normal knife handle only tonkovat.But it is in this concentrated a handle deadly secret of the origin of the bayonet.
Many researchers give the hunters of wild animals superiority in manufacturing Bagineti.They motivate their position that, going on a hunt, the participants of the fishery, in addition to gunshot singly rifles, took with them the peaks - long poles tipped with fighting.
This weapon was used in the cases when it is necessary to finish off a wounded animal or defend against his attack, using a pointed, sharp strokes.Wear poles and spikes were uncomfortable, they restrict freedom of movement, especially in a dense forest.As an alternative to bulky attributes Bagineti was invented - this is an ordinary knife, but with a thin circular handle, which is inserted into the barrel.Thus, the gun transformed into a peak.
Another version of the existing causes of Bagineti states that there was a weapon in the French city of Bayonne and its historically correct name of a bayonet (in consonance with the name of the city).The local smugglers allegedly first came up with a way to use a knife, which is inserted into the barrel of the gun immediately after firing, to obtain benefits in the melee with the French and Italian authorities.In favor of this theory it is evidenced by the fact that the French army was among the first took a bayonet on his arms.
Improving the inverse image of a bayonet
of the researchers who tend to be more irrelevant.It is important that someone came up with a great idea to change the conventional knife handle so that it can be inserted into the barrel of a gun.
It looked so Bagineti, a figure that can be found in the literature devoted to the weapons category.Its original purpose was to use weapons like the cold at a safe distance for themselves, not bothering wearing peak.
idea proved successful and popular.Almost half of the seventeenth century, the main direction of improvement Bagineti were attempts to select the most functional material, the configuration of its handles.
Her form on various parts of his becoming conical with a view to securing a reliable rifle in the trunk.
Thus, people first changed the design of the handle of the knife, adapting it for use by insertion into the gun barrel, created the prototype of a rifle bayonet - a deadly weapon that was used in close combat for several centuries.
Bagineti the armies
Since the forties of the seventeenth century, European armies take Bagineti adopted.It was at this time there is a process of replacing the bulky, heavy, bulky type of French musket rifles, Russian Bec de Corbin, used with additional support tools for lighter guns - fuzei.Picking their Bagineti led to the gradual abandonment of such weapons as the peak, halberds, battle pitchforks.
Using Bagineti 17th century, became musketeers and spearmen Rifleman simultaneously, thus increasing the number of shooters at the expense of retraining of the soldiers, therefore, to strengthen the combat power of the army.
Modernization Bagineti armies
grasp the strategic need for a knife in conjunction with a gun, gunsmiths are faced with the problem of gun equipped with a bayonet lose the ability to make a shot.Experts began to work on the modernization of the system.
efforts failed, it was found a solution that allowed to mount a knife near the trunk.Thus, in the throes of creativity and the search was to create a prototype of a rifle bayonet.
first rifle bayonets
At the end of the seventeenth century the Swedish army rifles from the right side of the trunk began to mount the ring first, and then the tube that allows the use of firearms and bladed weapons.This embodiment represented the closest prototype of a rifle bayonet.
Already in the late nineties, the army began to European countries to arm all-metal construction with tube cutters, which can be easily worn on the trunk and fastened on it.There are many variants of such fixtures - welt, whole, with clamps, latches.
Types and bayonets
to the same nineties is well-established use of two designs bayonet - with short broad-bladed bladed type and elongated bayonet-type needle in the form of a tetrahedron.
needle bayonet main advantage is its weight - less than that of blade.This option was of considerable importance, given the large weight of their own firearms and method of attachment to it bayonets - in the end portion of the gun barrel.
At the same time bladed bayonet type is more versatile and has been used in service in many European countries.For example, a German bayonet throughout the gear used in the country's army soldiers had continued bladed form.
By way of carrying bayonets were divided into two types - weaned, he was running away from guns or in pouches on the belt soldier and neotemny, which is attached to the trunk of a gun, but not in a combat situation.
Russian bayonet bayonets
emergence of the Russian Army historians associate with the beginning of the eighteenth century, and the name of Peter I.According to the commandment of the Russian army he was armed with a bayonet, which was a needle-type blade.Shape it represented trёhgrannik, connect with a round tube with the help of cervical oval.
Russian generals period eighteenth - nineteenth centuries, attaches great importance to this amendment guns sought by soldiers and officers perfected possession of techniques of unarmed combat with bayonets.
in extant documents, literary works can often find the idea that the hostility of the Russian army brought her victory over the enemy.No guns, no guns and bayonets.It is thought so, claimed the great Russian military leaders of those years, their contemporaries.
pronunciation of words Bagineti
The forums discussing the problems of linguistics, mention the word Bagineti, which put the emphasis on different syllables.The correctness of the pronunciation is difficult to determine.In the dictionary of modern Russian language this word has not got, like some others, have a foreign background.No its interpretation, including phonetic, known in academic Ozhegov and Dalia.
accepted that in French the stress usually falls on the last syllable, but our interpretation of the word the concept of stress in this language is not available.French language peculiar to prosody, in which the shock is the end of the spoken phrase.
If we take as a basis that the analog Bagineti word "bayonet" comes from the city of Bayonne, we can assume the right option setting accented on the second syllable.Russian-speaking people more convenient to do the accent on the last syllable, and there's nothing wrong with that.
