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Posted: 12/12/2018 4:02:51 PM EDT
Very shiny blade that really did not look like a space-station knife, but almost like a fighting knife.

https://giphy.com/gifs/3zk14JAVR2Xugd3hC8/fullscreen

Videos of it are everywhere, too.

It's not that I want one, but that I'm just wondering what/why/how for that style of knife being on the ISS.
Link Posted: 12/12/2018 4:50:09 PM EDT
[#1]
Holy Hell! Why in the flip would you want that anywhere near your spacesuit in zero G while in space? If you HAD to cut something, seems like they've give you a retractable box cutter, or some kind of hook, safety knife.
Link Posted: 12/12/2018 5:17:46 PM EDT
[#2]
Randall made a series of knives carried by each Apollo mission....

No idea about the ISS dirk as the image isn't opening!
Link Posted: 12/12/2018 6:06:34 PM EDT
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Link Posted: 12/12/2018 8:36:45 PM EDT
[#5]
Jeez! I wonder if Cosmonauts were trained in hand to hand combat! That would

Leave it to the Soviets to spend the resources to create an obstensobly offensive weapon

I wonder what the cost was for those including RD
Link Posted: 12/17/2018 10:52:56 PM EDT
[#6]
You think the fucking Space Force won't go H2H?
Link Posted: 12/18/2018 12:22:36 AM EDT
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I wonder what the cost was for those including RD
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Those pesky Russkies...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18187/here-is-the-soviet-unions-secret-space-cannon/
Link Posted: 12/18/2018 1:01:39 AM EDT
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Jeez! I wonder if Cosmonauts were trained in hand to hand combat! That would

Leave it to the Soviets to spend the resources to create an obstensobly offensive weapon

I wonder what the cost was for those including RD
Those pesky Russkies...
https://www.popularmechanics.com/military/weapons/a18187/here-is-the-soviet-unions-secret-space-cannon/
Man I want to see that video.
Link Posted: 12/21/2018 10:00:34 PM EDT
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They fired the cannon after the final disembarking of the station. The aiming was so crude they actually used the station's thrust ers as vectors.

The cannon shook the station to bus in a few shots.

Cosmonauts are not astronauts.
Link Posted: 12/23/2018 2:59:54 AM EDT
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In terms of a space knife, I think a D handle trench knife with an DA OTF blade would be the ideal.

D handle allows easy retention with bulky gloves, automatic blade extraction/retraction keeps the blade covered until it's needed, then immedieately retracted when not to minimize risk.
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