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The Colt Black Diamond Liberator is a series of American fighting knives with a 6 1/8 inch long blade available in double-edged dagger, tanto and spear-point bayonet type shapes made of stainless steel.
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The Cold steel Special Projects Covert Action Tanto (CAT) is a covert fighting knife made entirely of Zytel glass-reinforced nylon so as to avoid detection by X-ray and metal detecting equipment. It has a 5.75 inch blade, bevel ground with a chisel tip.
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There are two basic types of fighting knife: those designed for stabbing and piercing, such as the British 3rd Pattern Commando Knife (the Fairbairn-Sykes); and those designed for chopping, such as the Ghurkha Kukri. Perhaps because of their necessary bulk, most fighting knives are of the stabbing and piercing variety, and here there are numerous variations from the almost surgical precision of the 3rd Pattern Commando Knife, which was designed to delicately and precisely sever specific arteries or slip between the ribs into the heart, and the large menacing Bowie-types such as the American 1219C2 US Marine Corps knife. A further variation of the stabbing type fighting knife is the use of a triangular blade, such as the Delta Dart, which causes severe wounds, and when inserted into the chest can cause a lung collapse almost instantly.
With the advent of body armour, manufacturers have sought to develop a knife which can penetrate the armour - and surprisingly have succeeded with the tanto-type, which is a chisel tip rather than the more conventional spear-point or drop-point. Serrations on the back-edge of a stabbing knife can assist with its penetration, but if too large can act like a barb hindering the knife's subsequent withdrawal, which might prove fatal to the user if the first stab was not fatal to the opponent. To assist with the knife's withdrawal some models are fitted with a sub-hilt, which can be gripped with a hooked finger to help pull the weapon out. Many fighting knives suffer from a round handle. A round handle allows the knife to twist in use - not a problem with the precise use intended for some knives or where the blade is very narrow, where as a flattened handle offers far more control, for example when a deep insertion glances against bone.
Covert knives, designed to escape detection, are now made from hard or glass fibre reinforced plastic. These knives are invisible to X-ray equipment and metal detectors and may easily be smuggled onto an aircraft by a terrorist or hijacker for example. Their military use for remaining hidden after capture seems dubious, as a close search of the bearer would easily discover them.
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The Cold Steel Master Tanto is an American fighting knife with a 6 inch, chisel tip, single-edged blade of San Mai III steel.
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The Cold Steel Recon Tanto is an American fighting knife with a 7 inch, chisel tip, single-edged blade of black powder coated Carbon V steel.
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The Tanto is a design of fighting knife consisting of a single-edged blade with a chisel tip. The single edge has a slight curve to it, the back of the blade is straight and the full thickness of the blade is maintained almost to the tip. This design was developed in the Far East for penetrating metal body armour, and the penetrating power of the design is legendary - easily passing through a steel car door.
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The Caos 716 virus is a harmless memory resident encrypted parasitic virus. It hooks INT 21h and writes itself to the end of .COM-files that are accessed with DOS functions FindFirst and FindNext (on DIR command execution) . The virus contains the internal text strings: CAOS virii by WMÆ Hoy en Dia, cualquier sentido que le puedas dar a la a vida no vale tanto como para que esta merezca ser vivida.Virii Experimental, no es práctico ;)
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Pro tanto is Latin for For so much; to that extent
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