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The handle is made of plastic and has a metal knob at the end. At the other end, it ends in a hook into which the handle strap is hooked. The cross- guard is shaped as a ring at the bottom, which can be pushed over the muzzle. Around the front end of the saw, the blade is perforated in the middle with an elongated hole that can be inserted into the counterpart on the sheath. The back of the blade is also chamfered on one side and has a saw toothing on one side over a little more than half the length. The 6Ch4 has a pike blade with a flat grind on one side. The blade shape is identical to the 6Ch3. The 6CH4 also serves as a combat knife, saw and wire cutter.
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It is mainly used with the AK-47, AKM, and AK-74 Kalashnikovs. The bayonet with the GRAY index 6Ch4 ( Russian 6Х4 ) is a bayonet developed in the Soviet Union. The bayonet was manufactured in 10 countries and is used in over 55 countries.
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Irony of history, the US Navy also used the Ontario Mark 3 for combat swimmers, for the purpose for which Todorow's original design was intended. The 6Ch3 influenced numerous other bayonet and combat knife designs worldwide (e.g. The ability to use the bayonet as wire cutters was a major innovation, as was the rasp. The 6Ch3, on the other hand, was both a bayonet, a combat knife and a multifunctional tool. In the past, bayonets were traditionally relatively long stabbing weapons that could hardly be used for other applications. At that time, the 6Ch3 represented a radical step. The blade shape of this design was adopted almost unchanged for the bayonet and combined with a new handle. The 6Ch3 was put into service with the AKM in 1959 and was based on a design of a combat knife for swimmers by R. The bayonet with the GRAY index 6Ch3 ( Russian 6Х3, also known as M-59 or M-1959) is one in the Soviet Union developed bayonet. Based on this variant, bayonets were also manufactured in Bulgaria, China, GDR, Indonesia, North Korea and Poland and used in over 55 countries. The bayonet sheath is manufactured in the simplest possible way using sheet metal stamping technology. The bayonet has features of the Swedish M1914 bayonet and an interrupted rear receiving ring with a locking device for attachment to the rifles of the Kalashnikov series. A forerunner of this bayonet was the Soviet M1940 bayonet, which was used for the Tokarev SWT-40 and the M1945 bayonet for the Simonow SKS-45. The bayonet with the GRAU index 6Ch2 ( Russian 6Х2, also known as M-47 or M-1947) is a bayonet developed in the Soviet Union that was manufactured by Ischmasch (Izhevsk Arsenal) in Russia from around 1955 to 1960.