Soviet fighting-knife of WWII "NR 40"

[Reibert]

Hi !

Here I wanna show you a soviet-russian fighting-knife of WWII, known as „NR 40“ (nozh razvedchika).

translated: scout, or: reconnaisance-knife

This type of fighting-knife was introduced in 1940, so they named it "NR40".

This knife was manufactured by "ZIK" (Zlatoustovskij Instrumentalnij Kombinat).

The Soviet´s used this fighting-knife in Recon and Para-unit´s.

If there´s anybody here could show pictures of this knife "in action", I´d really appreciate that !


Thx,

R.

[Reibert]

Minutes ago I found this:

NR-40 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

After the war the polish Army produced a copy of this russian fighting-knife for it´s para-troop´s and named it wz.55.

[Reibert]

a picture:

[Adrian Stevenson]

Thanks for showing it, very nice.

I had not heard of the post war Polish version before. That is a very handsome knife.

Cheers, Ade.

[3mk]

Nice knifes
To bad the Polish version wasnt used in ww2

[Reibert]

Thanks for showing it, very nice.

I had not heard of the post war Polish version before. That is a very handsome knife.

Cheers, Ade.

Yes, in 1991 I saw this knife the first time for myself, as polish comrades gave me some knive´s while my duty at the Golan Hight´s in Syria.

This knife was manufactured quite a while.

R.

[Reibert]

Nice knifes
To bad the Polish version wasnt used in ww2

In WWII there´re knive´s enough on both side´s ...

[Wesley's Dad]

These knives are pretty rare. The subject of the thread is a nice example, but for general information, the belt hanger has been replaced on the scabbard.

[Reibert]

These knives are pretty rare. The subject of the thread is a nice example, but for general information, the belt hanger has been replaced on the scabbard.

Hi, Wes !

Thx for answering !

You know, that there´re also leather belt hangers, not only webbing one´s ?

In the www. I saw some pic´s with the same hanger like the hanger, mounted on my knife.

But, who cares ...

I like this knife !

There´re also green painted knive´s !


Cheer´s,

R.

[Wesley's Dad]

The fact that your hanger is not web was not the cause of my reply. The hanger on your knife does not appear to be of an original type, but a replacement.

Typically these are in a black, very thin, low grade leather. Typically attached to the belt hanger is a second leather strap across the handle with a metal retaining stud to close it. (much like the one on a "cavalry" version of a K98k bayonet frog.

Correct, there are green knives. Web belt hangers are new to me. I have never seen one like that.