I’m mean with the blade properly afixed to the rifle; not just someone that was stabbed, by hand with a bayonet.
Maybe 2009. It doesn’t say the guy died.
There was also a bayonet charge in 2011 cited but it doesn’t clearly state anyone was bayoneted to death, or at all.
Is your question the last time it happened or when was the last time such a thing was common???
It was also used by the British Army in the Falklands War in 1982. This 2002 article is somewhat interesting:
I wouldn’t have thought it was possible to find out but you guys took a stab at it.
Umm…
Is the question really worth asking? Death is utterly final. It isn’t IMHO something to cheerfully chat about.
I expect what the OP means is - are bayonets still used and if so, what are the recent records?
For the record, knives and machetes feature daily in battles in Central Africa. Check out the Congo. Lords Army. Also Tutsi v Hutsu in Rwanda.
We have gone far beyond chatting about it. We positively revel in it. Yes, we know, we are going to hell.
I assume you’ve never been to a wake in Ireland. Different people and cultures deal with it in different ways.
And on the straightdope military questions are asked all the time, so I’m not sure why a question about bayonets should raise an eyebrow.
I didnt think most modern military arms still had a place to put a bayonet.
Oh yes. In some states, the stupid anti-assault rifle laws forbid, among other things, a rifle with a bayonet lug.
These days it isn’t much- just a lug on the barrel that the bayonet mounts to in some fashion (many seem to just sort of clip to the lug), and some part that attaches/goes over the barrel and keeps it aligned.
And most of the bayonets are really some combination of bayonet, fighting knife and utility knife, and don’t look like the funky spike of the 18th-19th centuries, or the long sword-ish ones of the 19th/20th centuries.
This is the last one I could find:
There’s still a place to put the bayonet in your enemy, makes sense to have a place for it on your gun. The M16 and M4A have bayonet holders, and I think I’d want a bayonet in close combat.
What if the bayonet is a co2-charged Wasp knife?
Pointy sticks are what made us human. Or chimps.
I’d think one of the goals of using an M16 or M4A is to avoid combat that close.
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This isn’t really a factual response to the question, and is irrelevant in GQ.
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What if he comes at you with a bunch of loganberries?
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You know you’re a redneck when you affix your bayonet with hose clamps.