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Edged and other hand-to-hand weapons used in war: swords, sabres, daggers, knives and bayonets carried, thrown or fixed to a firearm for close combat, the standard edged-weapons class of ordnance reference works. Belongs here: any weapon system whose own attested weapon class names a sword, sabre, dagger, knife or bayonet. Does not belong here: a firearm that merely accepts a bayonet, which stays classed by its own firearm type. Reassigned from the Weapons Systems Contemporary and Modern catch-alls, ruling 926.

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All Edged And Melee Weapons
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1. Wikipedia: Bayonet
WikipediaBayonet, Plug bayonets section
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The first recorded instance of a bayonet proper is found in the Chinese military treatise, Binglu published in 1606.
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