(8 April 2016, 07:06)Midnitemo Wrote: That's it just not parkerised and the leather handle is rougher on the new one....that may be the answer just buy a new version of my Vietnam era one.
The USAF survival trains each and every aircrew member before assigning them to a plane.
They operate the oldest and longest running survival school in the world, training 6,000+ individuals annually. Two week course with one week in the bush.
Since its approval in 1958 the Air Force Jet Pilot Survival Knife has been issued to each and every student going through that course. That is a total of over 300,000 soldiers that have been trained for survival using that specific blade.
The blade is made from 1095 carbon steel, just like the K-bar, the RAT series, the Mora and a host of other highly regarded knives.
It has been changed only once in its term of service. The blade was SHORTENED from 6" to 5". That was done at the request of the trainers at the school.
Under the ejection seat of every plane equipped with such there is a survival kit that contains one of these knives in the contents. Almost all the Navy aircraft also include the blade as do many of the helicopters in service. That totals thousands of blades.
It was the most popular military blade carried in Southeast Asia, meaning that thousands and thousands of the blades were carried for daily use in full on SHTF situations.
Most other blades are "proposed" to be survival knives, the JPSK IS a survival knife, designed by survival teachers and used by survival students, by pilots that have ejected from aircraft, by soldiers on the ground and by bushcrafters that get their gear at the surplus store for more than 60 years, and changed only once in that time.
You can have that, or you can have a twisted railroad spike, its your money.
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