Ka-Bar (trademarked as KA-BAR capitalized) is the contemporary popular name for the combat knife first adopted by the United States Marine Corps in November 1942 as the 1219C2 combat knife (later designated the USMC Mark 2 combat knife or Knife Fighting Utility) and subsequently adopted by the United States Navy as the U.S. Navy utility knife Mark 2. Additionally KA-BAR is the trademark and namesake of a related knife manufacturing company KA-BAR Knives. Inc.
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length (km)
0.301625
weight (kg)
557.928
origin
United States
type
Knife
used in war
Korean War, Vietnam War, World War II, Invasion of Grenada, War in Afghanistan (2001–present), Iraq War, Gulf War, United States invasion of Panama
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