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Boarding Cutlass
The cutlass was the sailor's sword of the Age of Sail: short, broad-bladed, and basket-guarded, built for the crowded chaos of a boarding action where a long blade fouled in rigging and a delicate one broke on a boarding pike. Navies issued it by the rack, pirates made it their emblem, and it outlasted every other edged weapon in shipboard service — the U.S. Navy did not formally retire its last cutlass until the twentieth century.
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Bolo Knife
The bolo is the broad-bladed working knife of the Philippines — wider toward the tip, weighted for the chop, the universal tool of field and jungle — and a weapon with a genuine military career: the blade of the Philippine Revolution and the guerrilla resistance of World War II, and, in an unusual compliment, an official issue pattern of the United States Army, whose M1904 and M1917 bolos equipped engineers, medics, and machine-gun crews through two wars.
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Kukri
The kukri is the forward-curved knife of Nepal: a broad, downward-angled blade that concentrates a blow like a hatchet while handling like a knife, equally at home splitting kindling and splitting helmets. It is the national blade of the Nepalese hill peoples, the universal tool of the Himalayan farmstead, and — as the issue sidearm of the Gurkha regiments for two centuries — one of the most famous and most instantly recognized fighting knives anywhere on earth.
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Karambit
The karambit is the claw-shaped knife of the Malay world: a small, sharply curved blade from Sumatra and the surrounding archipelago, held reversed with a finger through the ring at its pommel so it cannot be dropped or easily taken. By tradition an ambush and last-resort weapon patterned on the tiger's claw, it spread through the region's silat fighting arts and, centuries later, into the global tactical-knife market, where its silhouette is now one of the most recognized in the industry.
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