Fix bayonets!

[Groundhog]

apparently some Scottish unit in Iraq fixed bayonets a while back - I guess the insurgents don't like it up 'em, as Cpl Jones would say.

Because they ran out of ammo in a fire fight. Not good news.

For riot control situations, the sight of a bayonet can have a very sobering effect.

Not really. Since the rioters or rather the organisers would dearly love to haul the DF over the coals for brutally hacking peaceful protestors to death. For example see the May Day riot cases currently doing the rounds and the Barr tribunal.

[apod]

we did our recruit passing out with fixed bayonets.carried the rifle by our side a la f.n drill .held rifle by the mag a la aussie army.good display.Everything about baonets is in the steyr rifle manual .just look.

[Victor]

Unlike the FN Bayonets, the steyr bayonets aren't numbered and linked to a particular rifle. Still I would have thought that units would be issued with equal number of bayonets as rifles.

Stock control? If only X number of bayonets are on issue to units, at most X can go missing.

[parkman]

If ya haven't done a battalion fix [old Lee Enfield]ya haven't soldiered

[Barry]

Stock control? If only X number of bayonets are on issue to units, at most X can go missing.

Even in the lowly RDF, equipment is not expected to go missing, and if it does the result is usually the entire unit being sent to retrieve the missing items, even if it is only an empty magazine

[Truck Driver]

Even in the lowly RDF, equipment is not expected to go missing, and if it does the result is usually the entire unit being sent to retrieve the missing items, even if it is only an empty magazine

I think you mean especially if it is an empty magazine