It is true that some special forces trained to effectively use that sapper shovels shown on photo as weapon. Kind of Russian version of tomahawk. Silent, deadly and handy thing, that shovel blade is made from very good, nearly knife grade steel (have one in car trunk as a tool). So, it is quite possible that in some circumstances some reconnaissance/saboteur group killed some enemy guard with shovel.
That is the only truth behind that article.
Also, there exist an old anecdote (just like about any profession) about engineering forces (stroybat) - "Stroybat is toughest Russian forces among all, they even afraid to give them guns, looking at what they do with shovels."
Something tell me that in other countries, special forces have a lessons of using sapper shovels as a weapon too and that is not uncommon thing at all.
Funny, I'm trying to find what is official military shovel in US, as "navy seal shovel", "special forces shovel", etc, but google gives me mostly images of that Soviet standard sapper/trench shovel and it's modern varieties from amazon or survivalist and tourist hardware sites.
Theoretically Gerber could produce such kind of equipment for US military, but I could not find any mention of that on their site, only camping things.
What is official military shovel in US? Sapper shovel, trench shovel, something like that definitely should exist, I'm shure.
It is true that some special forces trained to effectively use that sapper shovels shown on photo as weapon. Kind of Russian version of tomahawk. Silent, deadly and handy thing, that shovel blade is made from very good, nearly knife grade steel (have one in car trunk as a tool). So, it is quite possible that in some circumstances some reconnaissance/saboteur group killed some enemy guard with shovel.
That is the only truth behind that article.
Also, there exist an old anecdote (just like about any profession) about engineering forces (stroybat) - "Stroybat is toughest Russian forces among all, they even afraid to give them guns, looking at what they do with shovels."
Something tell me that in other countries, special forces have a lessons of using sapper shovels as a weapon too and that is not uncommon thing at all.
Funny, I'm trying to find what is official military shovel in US, as "navy seal shovel", "special forces shovel", etc, but google gives me mostly images of that Soviet standard sapper/trench shovel and it's modern varieties from amazon or survivalist and tourist hardware sites.
Theoretically Gerber could produce such kind of equipment for US military, but I could not find any mention of that on their site, only camping things.
What is official military shovel in US? Sapper shovel, trench shovel, something like that definitely should exist, I'm shure.