Knife Shilina Bashny.Net

The Second World War gave a lot of new weapons-grade community. Among these things can recall the serial Soviet knife, which is called NS (knife Shilin).
Designed this folding knife was commissioned by the Soviet army for senior officers. Author knife worked as deputy chief designer Kovrov plant №2 them. Kirkizha. By the way, at the plant worked well-known designers and firearms Degyatrev Shpagin.
In the series opener I went in 1945, but the number of weapons issued was very small - up to 200 copies.
The design of the knife: the blade is double-sided grinding, and the handle is a screwdriver, awl, corkscrew, can opener for beer and a can opener. This is not a Swiss Army knife, but also very good.
Sheath knife Shilin made of wood, and had special hooks inside that automatically extends the full length of the blade on when removing. When folded, a significant portion of the blade was in the handle.

Source: facte.ru

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