Ballistic knives, manufactured by the USSR company Ostblock, were supplied in large numbers to the Soviet special forces group Spetsnaz throughout the 1980s.

Ballistic knives are used as covert "stealth" weapons when a firearm is not appropriate. The Russian Spetznaz ballistic knife is a metal tube with a powerful spring to deploy the blade. The blade can be deployed and remain attached to the handle or, by pulling out a stop pin, actually propel the blade effectively about 20 feet. The spring in these knives is powerful enough that the knife can be placed against a person and fired and it will penetrate clothing and flesh.
No...not really...but read on.....info in later post...






BillSykes

Oh fer fucksake i still cant post bloody pics

BillSykes

FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUCKINEL

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i can not seeee billy

Hang in there BG someones bound to come to ol' Bills assistance soon enuff.....I HOPE!

BillSykes

you may enjoy this if you like 'explosive' knives

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uVTPRhWdfc

work for you there, bill? sorry i make it look so easy

SWEETAZ me ol' muckah

Yeah you do make it look bloody easy too! care to enlighten ol'Bill?

BillSykes

UN9 is that the G.R.A.D. .22 gunknife?

Awesome bit a kit that!

BillSykes

[/quote]The spring in these knives is powerful enough that the knife can be placed against a person and fired and it will penetrate clothing and flesh.[quote]

I got a confession.....i copied and pasted it from Wikipedia

Love the idea of a charged spike tho

BillSykes

Bill
I can't see what's wrong in your first post.

look closely at the location of your brackets in later posts-
I'm going to type with spaces between each letter so it does not run.

[ I M G ] photobucketthenameofyourfile.jpg [ / I M G ]


Also, in your previous post, your quote didn't run in a black box
because your (slash quote) bracket came first instead of last

instead off this correct order
[ q u o t e ] whatyouwanttosay [ / q u o t e ]

Cheers Bruva Jer, i'll give it a go

BillSykes

Fingers Xd

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEES FUCKIN' FINALLY!

JERRY JERRY JERRY

Just in case you think im blaspheming im not.....I love God and i can relate to Uncle Chop-Chop so when i found this pic it immediately became my mobile phones wallpaper!

BillSykes

I don't mind, it's your soul, not mine.
Just kidding , between OSHA , patent law, and machining tolerance practices,
I don't worry about artistic opinions. or roman catholic rules in my brain.

Besides, my brother Jeff shocked me years ago with his art.
I'm jaded now.

I have no idea who "uncle chop chop" is.

Heh heh God knows im a good bloke even if no-one else does

Sorry Jerr, Uncle Chop-Chop is a reference to Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read, an infamous Austalian criminal, off his bloody tits, you sould see the film about him or read one of his books

BillSykes

Bill S don't feel bad about having a hard time posting pics. Sinza had to show me everything, I was doing it all wrong
Now I'm about 50/50 :lol!:

O RLY? Please do tell! What of this "Toy" of which you speak??!

Here's the full info from Wikipedia

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A ballistic knife is a knife with a detachable blade that can be expelled from the handle/frame as a projectile commonly propelled by a spring-operated or gas-driven mechanism. These knives are banned almost nationwide in the United States.

Contents
1 Lethality
2 Uses
3 Legality
4 References




Lethality
Ballistic knives are not considered to be particularly effective weapons, especially as when compared to a firearm of similar availability. Indeed, the main advantage of a ballistic knife is its ability to surprise a target. If used toward the enemy's face, a user would gain a momentary advantage and opportunity to relieve the enemy of his weapon. Most inexperienced fighters consider a knife to be a solely melee weapon.


Uses
Ballistic knives, manufactured by the USSR company Ostblock, were supplied in large numbers to the Soviet special forces group Spetsnaz throughout the 1980s.

Ballistic knives are used as covert "stealth" weapons when a firearm is not appropriate. The Russian Spetznaz ballistic knife is a metal tube with a powerful spring to deploy the blade. The blade can be deployed and remain attached to the handle for use as a common sheath knife, or by pressing a button or pulling a pin it will launch the blade. The spring in these knives is powerful enough to actually propel the blade effectively about 20 feet. When combined with an overhand throwing motion it will penetrate clothing and flesh. However practised knife throwers dismiss the spring advantage and often prefer standard throwing knife designs.


Legality
Unlike conventional switchblade automatic knives, which are legal to possess in 29 USA states by regular citizens and by specially qualified individuals in all 50 states, ballistic knives are highly regulated for all but a very few special military personnel and illegal nationwide.[1] After ballistic knife sales in the U.S.A. was halted in 1986, the launching handle was made available with a small grappling hook for climbing, however the hook itself is not approved for use by DOI AM (U.S.Department of the Interior, Aviation Management) for either U.S. Military helicopter personnel tactics or civilian rappelling.

Some OTF (out the front) switchblades could be partially dismantled by removing a pin, allowing the blade to launch, but the lightweight blade was neither ballistically or aerodynamically sound, and failed to attract the interest of knife throwing practitioners.
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The I found this....
TITLE 15 > CHAPTER 29 > § 1245Prev | Next § 1245. Ballistic knives
(a) Prohibition and penalties for possession, manufacture, sale, or importation
Whoever in or affecting interstate commerce, within any Territory or possession of the United States, within Indian country (as defined in section 1151 of title 18.), or within the special maritime and territorial jurisdiction of the United States (as defined in section 7 of title 18), knowingly possesses, manufactures, sells, or imports a ballistic knife shall be fined as provided in title 18., or imprisoned not more than ten years, or both.
(b) Prohibition and penalties for possession or use during commission of Federal crime of violence
Whoever possesses or uses a ballistic knife in the commission of a Federal crime of violence shall be fined as provided in title 18, or imprisoned not less than five years and not more than ten years, or both.
(c) Exceptions
The exceptions provided in paragraphs (1), (2), and (3) of section 1244 of this title with respect to switchblade knives shall apply to ballistic knives under subsection (a) of this section.
(d) “Ballistic knife” defined
As used in this section, the term “ballistic knife” means a knife with a detachable blade that is propelled by a spring-operated mechanism.
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ummmm.....I did say it was a friend of mine that was buying it didn't I???
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Me?...I got rid of all my weapons and toys... I don't own anything illegal. :ghr:

LOL Niiiiice... Man, that is too cool... Shame you had to get rid of all of your weapons... So many silly, silly laws... LOL

Jesus!!! It's been 20 years!! I forgot how hard and how scary it is to try and load and shoot one of these!





Scary Mother Fucker!! Won't be playing with this one .....had to use ALL my strength to load it pushing it against the ground...and it still took a few tries.
The spring is huge and very strong.....Fuckin' crazy Ruskies...

Shot it across the room a few times... ...did I say it was a SCARY mother fucker?!?!?

Not something to play with! ...Fuckin' A !!! Would be cool if it was a easy reload and it was more accurate.
It's just so dangerous to the person loading/shooting it. Now....as these were banned pretty quick there weren't too many generations made. So not to many improvements were ever looked into, designed, or created. What it is is a very VERY simple design. Now, just like Harkins took the basic OTF design and made it stronger and better the same could be done for these. I'm sure that with a little more time/money/design a close to perfect model could be designed...but it will never happen, not with the laws the way they are, it's a dead end design.

Bottom line.....
Seriously...Scarrrrrry!!!!


P.S. I myself would never own such a weapon...the one in the pictures above as I understand was destroyed completely by melting with a cutting torch right after the pictures were taken. That's my story and I'm sticking to it.....

EGADS!!!!

That is Freakin SWEEET!! The Ruskies knew how to make fool proof, seriously indestructable weapons...

The one thing that isnt clear from the pics, is how that blade cover/baton is affixed to the blade. It l;ooks like it just slides over the "habaki" (I dont know what it would be called in Russia LOL) of the blade, with no positive retention. What prevents it from coming off?
But i'll say it again... That's a beautiful thing to behold...

.. I would not want one of those to go off in my pocket..ultimate pain.

Ah... OK... Hard plastic Habaki...? Interesting..
And I agree wholeheartedly about black knurled handles... Those are very cool... They just have this right look and feel...

Top pics...just playing around to see what the blades would looked like switched.

The difference between a real ballistic knife and a fantasy version. Funny, the blade from the fake works with the real launcher. Fits perfect.
Similar design, basically the same. The fake one has some nice design elements to it. I like the stronger handle, the button release, rubber grip, also I prefer the rod tang over the tube handle of the real one.
Would be nice to see a version that is the best of both.

NIIICEEE!!! Ok now THIS I like. Perhaps the BladeWhip isn't entirely worthless after all...LOL

Can you/Have you tried launching the Bladewhip from the Ballistic knife handle? LOL I'm guessing the Ballistic knife would probably be more stable because of the tube handle, as opposed to the rat tail... What is it about the rat tail that you prefer over the tube? Just the easthetics? Or are there other reasons?

I like the button release idea, and the rubber grip probably would feel a lot nicer in the hand. I'd probably do something along the lines of replacing the knurling on the original with a rubber sleeve...

Beautiful pics of the Ballistic knife guys.Ive wanted for a while still want one even though its a felony offense just owning one.Bid on one once at Sharperdeals but was outbid it got way to steep for a curio .Ill end up getting my paws on one before my days are over

This is the one I want. This is supposed to be the original design. Looks a bit more sturdy.
One piece blade & tang, not the stupid tube stuck on the end. I also like the grenade pin! Anything with a grenade pin looks dangerous!
Big difference here is the release. This is a twist of the handguard pins, the other is a puch of a button assembly. Totally different.
Even though this is a better design I would think the button would be a smoother release, but as I've never handled the Russia version I don't really know.


My advice...if you ever happen to find one for sale find out if it's one of these good ones or the cheaper Florida copies that we have pictured above.
Easy to tell... tube or tang. Tube bad.
Don't spend too much. It will be difficult to re-sell as you can't advertise it or have it at knife shows.
If you read what I've written above you will see that these are a cool curio piece but a crappy weapon. Just give me a handgun, works better.
It is cool to show to buddies, but getting busted with one isn't really worth the bragging rights.
I had one in my collection, got it for free. Cool toy, scary as Hell to load and shoot.
Mine was melted with a torch right after we took pictures of it. (I'm still sticking to that story)

Thats an interesting version i havent seen that model before with the twist guards seems more lethal than the tube because it has less weight on the tube and more on the blade.Im sure they were mast produced at some point because i know they were always advertised in the shotgun news back in the 80s.From what ive heard they were sold all over the u.s at on point until the government put an end to it Some kid probably shot his friends eye out or shot it through his cat or something .It seems there was a number of differnt patterns,As a weapon no its not very effective maybe as a last ditch effort in close range but i would take a 1911 or a ballistic knife any day of the weak

Now that's a cool variation of the ballistic design... Does look much stronger than the tube design, though I'd be willing to bet that it also messes with the projectile ballistics of the blade... The tube seems like it would track better in mid air. I think I'm gonna play with the (purely theoretical) idea of combining a full tang and a tube construction...

I sold a Florida version on Ebay last year(no spring)that I got intact from an auction (I got rid of the spring!) LAST YEAR!
I got about 200.00 or so and paid 50.00 for it I'm thinking the Auction had no idea there was a blade as it was listed a "spring loaded thingy"I thought it was the baton ,but when I gave the thing a tug SUPRISE!

You lucky bastige...

What is the deal with that slotted blade version with the stepped down tube?
I haven't ever seen on of those.

I don't look back too fondly of the original I owned in the 80s and the bloodied thumb behind the nail.It was lost somewhere down range at FT Cartoon......loaded as I recall.I would never intentionally carry it that way ,I intended to replace the grenade pin with a more substantial pressure button pin and devise a camo pouch for it.
Yet another of the many reasons why my command elements thought I was crazy/dangerous.
The fuckers still should have given me sniper school even though I was a 19D.....but I'm not bitter.
I have that Blade saber comming in ,looks like a fun thing to modify with my diabolical intelect...heh,heh,heh

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RIR21QS_2Xc



Talk about set yourself up for a visit from the Authorities!

Wonder what other Exotic Automatica he's got in that display cabinet?

I guess that would be a good way to catch one of us,if we were stupid enough to pay 909.00 for it.It looks like the cheap remake as well.

Not worth the money other than it's a rare item. Only worth having for bragging rights.

This is the same as the one I have had

It's cool and all to show people, but it's one of those things that the idea is better than the reality of the object.

Sad story....cool idea-crappy knife....crappy movie came out with Arnold shooting blade into a guy....crappy laws make crappy knife illegal...end of story.

As I've said, I'd love to see advances made in this design, but as it's illegal in almost all countries it's pretty much a dead end design.
No one will make better versions, no one will make Ballistic knives for sale again, no knifemaker would build them for fear of prison.
It's sad. People freaked out and laws were passed. I could see the same for 'wrist-mounted blades' someday.

типа лезвием стреляет ?

translation is too short and does not make sense . .

типа лезвием стреляет ?
"type by blade it shoots ?"

if you are asking , "does it launch or shoot the blade ?
оно запускает или снимает лезвие ?

Yes, it will shoot the blade
Да, оно снимет лезвие

But is not what everyone hopes for
Но нет чего каждое надеется для

legendary stories are better than experiments with actual knife
легендарные рассказы более лучшие чем эксперименты с фактическим ножом

I now speak of the American version .It's a surprise close range weapon that will penetrate through a heavy jacket,as well as jam your thumb and make enough audible noise to give away your location to anyone 50 feet away.I once asked a green beret about throwing knives when I was young.He said "You have to practice a lot but it's better to learn how to use it in your hand than to throw it away."