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Agreed. I can do this mid-May if someone else has not done so already, then set Fairbairn-Sykes_Knife up as a redirect to here. Rorybowman 23:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Agreed'. scot 14:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. MMad 13:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. -- Knife Knut 02:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I went ahead and did this. Dalf | Talk 07:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
There were two quotes here before, the second of which I recognized and the first of which I believe is on a proprietary site. If someone can confirm this, that would be terrific.
John F. Murphy Jr., "Secret Weapons of the Secret War," International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 14, Number 2 / April 1, 2001, pp. 262 - 278. [1]
When will the contents fo Get Tough! be in the public domain? A diagram of Fairbairn's cuts would be good to add here, as it would very clearly convey the spirit of Fairbairn's text. Rorybowman 02:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
The result of the debate was to move this article to Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife -- Lox ( t, c) 22:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd say move it to "Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife" rather than an abbreviation, and create redirects from the "FS" and "F-S" and "F&S" abbreviated versions. scot 23:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I can't believe that the words "BROAD ARROW" were really stamped on the knives, I think it more likely that the broad arrow symbol (that of the War Department) would have been stamped instead. Could someone correct this if I'm correct.
Cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.69.83.247 ( talk) 21:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
I uploaded the photo of the FS knife. I took this of a knife in the Australian 1 Cdo Regt Q Store and reported that it was from stock originally issued and used by Australian WWII Commandos. I have recently learnt that this knife was actually from a container confiscated by Australia during the infamous " sandline affair" in PNG. WWII stock had long previously dissappeared. Greynurse 13:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Rename from Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife to Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
In the first sentence it states that the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a type ofstiletto. Later on it states that the knife isn't a stiletto due to differences in the pommel, grip and blade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.82.121.38 ( talk) 18:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
with all due respect to above gentlemen i doubt that they invented the dagger. its is a precise replica of the dutch stormdolk 1917. as used by Dutch special troops and marines since 1917. even the sheat is the same At the time this dagger was introduced by fairbairn and sykes they probably saw it in Shanghai were also dutch marines were stationed just google stormdolk 1917 for pictures
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It says: "The OSS Stiletto was a double-edged knife based on the Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife. It was so admired that the US military created several other fighting knives based on it."
Is that several others based on the OSS Stiletto, or on the F-S?
Then it says that because of the incorrect tempering, "Its reputation suffered accordingly." The reader is left wondering whether the OSS knife was popular or unpopular. The citation for "Its reputation suffered accordingly" has apparently rotted, even though it is the Wayback Machine; perhaps the link was never a good one - I didn't think that Wayback Machine links were prone to rot.
Anyway, we now seem to have a paragraph that contains a contradiction, with no useable citation to resolve that contradiction. I propose to remove everything in that para up to "accordingly", if nobody can help with this problem. After all, this material is only tangentially about the F-S knife; removing it would not remove any info about the F-S knife. MrDemeanour ( talk) 14:40, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
When did the SAS and the british military in general, abandoned the FS-knife ? Is there a successor of the FS-Knife or does the SAS no longer see the need of a combat-knife ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.171.249.180 ( talk) 14:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)
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Agreed. I can do this mid-May if someone else has not done so already, then set Fairbairn-Sykes_Knife up as a redirect to here. Rorybowman 23:46, 27 April 2006 (UTC)
Agreed'. scot 14:13, 28 April 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. MMad 13:35, 25 July 2006 (UTC)
Agreed. -- Knife Knut 02:34, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
I went ahead and did this. Dalf | Talk 07:31, 29 August 2006 (UTC)
There were two quotes here before, the second of which I recognized and the first of which I believe is on a proprietary site. If someone can confirm this, that would be terrific.
John F. Murphy Jr., "Secret Weapons of the Secret War," International Journal of Intelligence and CounterIntelligence, Volume 14, Number 2 / April 1, 2001, pp. 262 - 278. [1]
When will the contents fo Get Tough! be in the public domain? A diagram of Fairbairn's cuts would be good to add here, as it would very clearly convey the spirit of Fairbairn's text. Rorybowman 02:28, 27 December 2005 (UTC)
The result of the debate was to move this article to Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife -- Lox ( t, c) 22:43, 9 January 2006 (UTC)
I'd say move it to "Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife" rather than an abbreviation, and create redirects from the "FS" and "F-S" and "F&S" abbreviated versions. scot 23:00, 3 January 2006 (UTC)
I can't believe that the words "BROAD ARROW" were really stamped on the knives, I think it more likely that the broad arrow symbol (that of the War Department) would have been stamped instead. Could someone correct this if I'm correct.
Cheers —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 82.69.83.247 ( talk) 21:14, 29 March 2007 (UTC).
I uploaded the photo of the FS knife. I took this of a knife in the Australian 1 Cdo Regt Q Store and reported that it was from stock originally issued and used by Australian WWII Commandos. I have recently learnt that this knife was actually from a container confiscated by Australia during the infamous " sandline affair" in PNG. WWII stock had long previously dissappeared. Greynurse 13:00, 2 August 2007 (UTC)
Rename from Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife to Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife
In the first sentence it states that the Fairbairn-Sykes Fighting Knife is a type ofstiletto. Later on it states that the knife isn't a stiletto due to differences in the pommel, grip and blade. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.82.121.38 ( talk) 18:15, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
with all due respect to above gentlemen i doubt that they invented the dagger. its is a precise replica of the dutch stormdolk 1917. as used by Dutch special troops and marines since 1917. even the sheat is the same At the time this dagger was introduced by fairbairn and sykes they probably saw it in Shanghai were also dutch marines were stationed just google stormdolk 1917 for pictures
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It says: "The OSS Stiletto was a double-edged knife based on the Fairbairn–Sykes fighting knife. It was so admired that the US military created several other fighting knives based on it."
Is that several others based on the OSS Stiletto, or on the F-S?
Then it says that because of the incorrect tempering, "Its reputation suffered accordingly." The reader is left wondering whether the OSS knife was popular or unpopular. The citation for "Its reputation suffered accordingly" has apparently rotted, even though it is the Wayback Machine; perhaps the link was never a good one - I didn't think that Wayback Machine links were prone to rot.
Anyway, we now seem to have a paragraph that contains a contradiction, with no useable citation to resolve that contradiction. I propose to remove everything in that para up to "accordingly", if nobody can help with this problem. After all, this material is only tangentially about the F-S knife; removing it would not remove any info about the F-S knife. MrDemeanour ( talk) 14:40, 26 July 2018 (UTC)
When did the SAS and the british military in general, abandoned the FS-knife ? Is there a successor of the FS-Knife or does the SAS no longer see the need of a combat-knife ? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 84.171.249.180 ( talk) 14:51, 31 January 2022 (UTC)