Kalashnikov Bayonets of the World

Are you sure that the czech made a SVD Dragunov?

In the sources i have, they were imported from Russia so it's normal to see a manual in czech language.


Hi, never said SVDs were made by Czechoslovakia or Czech Republic, yes they were imported in early 80s, and that import included bayonets. I ...

I have pictures of 2 more black scabbards.
You can compare all the pictures and make your own conclusions.
There is something about those 2 pictured that i might share at later date

There is a question among vz 58 bayonet collectors...
There have been few sightings of the black painted, tanned scabbards with claims that they are military police ones.
There is ZERO evidence that they existed, there is nobody who remembers ever seeing one but there are people who are confident ...

Original BON bayonets made for civilian market
Here are pictures of the few BON bayonets that were made for the civilian market by the same manufacturer as the original ones for the army reserve unit
One with the serial number shows exactly how it should look like, it has been observed that original ...

fake/replica BON bayonets
Collector market has been flooded by a lot of fakes with sellers caliming that they are original czech made BON bayonets
example: https://www.vz58usa.com/product/vz58-bayonet-gen-5-bon-with-scabbard-unissued/
Claim of unissued bayonet is just false, most likely they are ...

Zwei weitere VZ 58 Typ II. Überarbeitet

Hier wurden Holzgriffe verwendet .
Die Bohrung für die Niten sind sehr tief.
Ich denke das ist eine sehr Frühzeitliche Reparatur.

Beste Grüsse



...The rest of the wood handled ones pictured may well be reproductions in my opinion. I say this as to my ...

This one needs a lot of correction and its own LADA bayonet thread which I will make later


Yes, examples of this new scabbard in both foliage and desert camo have been listed in eBay. Whether they were a commercial copy or a military overrun is unknown. The Czechs started development of a 5.56mm ...

To correct his post, this is not a "new style of scabbard" this is a scabbard for the combat knife vz. 75 known as UTON, manufactured by MIKOV

I was wrong! I finally got my hands on one of the new style pouches. It is not for the VZ58 bayonets. The blade is a little over an inch too long. Overall ...

SPM bayonet scabbards
S.P.M. Liberec, today known as Sewing development company, they are still made today for anyone and are offered in czech vz.95 cammo, slovak SK 2006 digital forest, multicam, black and olive or any toher custom camo you can provide

Type with cover:
this one is not military ...

Fenix protector scbbard:
This type is not offical issue as far as we know, at least for czech army, but probably could have been privately bought by individual soldiers who wanted one. I cannot speak for the slovak army.
They are extremly hard, compared to any other scabbard, feels like a brick ...

To correct and add some information to this thread


I am told by someone in Europe that this is the new style VZ58 scabbard, and that they are also available in desert camo.
Comments?


Yes those were "new" scabbards for the vz 58, in some capacity even to this day with reserve units, probably ...

And a last piece is to compare the stamp on the mag pouches, this is the only 2 i know of

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This concludes extent of he current knowledge about the chemical scabbards and even still it has a lot of unanswered questions. While writing this i also came across some grey chemical suits ...

AČR scabbard 2006
this is the last variant observed

AČR scabbard 2004
this is the only one i have found a second example of so far aside from one I own

AČR scabbard 2003

AČR scabbard
This is a last observed variant of the chemical scabbard for the VZ 58 bayonet, there is not much proof they were actually used by soldiers (there is no photographic evidence of them being worn, even tho there is a lot and lot of pictures of our chemical units, they are quite respected ...

ČSFR/AČR OPCH 90 scabbard
This is among the latest discoveries regarding chemical scabbards, roughly dated beween velvet revolution and early 2000s
This was discovered in commemorative book released by Ministry of defence of Czech Republic about history of the 4th (Czech) Rapid Deployment Brigade ...

ČSLA grey scabbard
This rare scabbard is know to exist in relatively significant numbers but to what purpose is unknown, they are impossible to date since all of the stampings lack the full year date and even the 2 digit one on the acceptance mark.
My theory is, looking at the 1979 acceptance marks ...

ČSLA 1979 scabbard
somewhat uncommon variant of the standart chemical scabbard, note the different hue of the green ruberrized canvas material

ČSLA 1977 scabbard