Gallery



Here is a collection of Scandinavian bayonet pictures.
Send me a mail if you know an interesting pictures that should be on this list.

Sweden

m/1867-94-14
Swedish sailor with modified carbine 1894 and bayonet m/1894-76-14.
m/1896 flat button
Two swedish soldiers prodly posing with their m/1896 rifles and early m/1896 bayonets
m/1896 flat button
Three swedish soldiers prodly posing with their m/1896 rifles and early m/1896 bayonets
m/1915 exercise
Navy men lined up with their m/1894-14 carbines and mounted m/1915 bayonets
m/1915 parade
navy men marching with their m/1894-14 carbines and mounted m/1915 bayonets
AK5 with bayonet
The AK5 is not issued with a bayonet, but the Rooyal Guards use the bayonet m/1965 with an adaptor.

Denmark

m/1867
M 1867 sword bayonet.
m/1867-93
Danish sailors with the quite scarce M1867-93 bayonet for their 8 mm Rolling block rifles.

Norway

K98 Air Force
The Norwegians had a lot of K98 rifles and bayonets after the war. They modified about 5000 K98 bayonets to use with the US rifle Garand. However the Air Force used modified K98 rifles (.30-60 cal) and used K98 bayonets to them. They kept the original frog stud and mounted the Alice clips on a metal plate on the stud. The bayonet and scabbard are marked with about 6 mm high serial numbers.
This is considered a quite scarce modification.
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BCN

"Frog of the month"  Bayonet (Norwegian M1894) mounted
The frog is a modified Belgian frog. Note the metal plate that locks the scabbard.
It is supposed to be used by "Den Norske Legion" (DNL) during training [Carter, "Bayonet belt frogs"]. The legion was promised to be a fully Norwegian unit with Norwegian uniforms and weapons, but this never came true. The legion was sent to the eastern front instead of Finland as originally promised.
A quite scarce frog.
fm/56 (picture 1 fm/1956 ?) (picture 2 fm/1956 ? (picture 3 fm/1964)
Here are some pictures of a Swedish trial bayonet, probably from 1956, but that's not verified. It is (probably...) from the AK4 trials in the late 1950s to the early 1960s. The bayonet has a green plastic handle. It has a serial # on the pommel and the number 56 engraved on the guard. The bayonet has a US M8 scabbard, the knife pictured has the scabbard used for the early AK4 bayonets.
I don't know for what rifle it's intended.
Several foreign models were tried in the AK4 tests:
Gram Gram is the working name from Carl Gustafs Stads rifle factory. It is the development of AG m/42 via trial model fm/56 and fm/57. The rifle was made in two calibres, 6,5 mm and 7,62 mm
M14 This is basicly a "refined" M1 Garand for 7,63x51 mm NATO cartridge. The M14 was accepted in USA 1957. (See FN FAL)
SIG -
G3 The automatic rifle developed by Heckler & Koch was accepted in the West German army as Gewehr G3. The rifle was initially developed by some german engineers that had fled to Spain after the war. When they got back to Germany in the fifties they started the company Heckler & Koch.
FN FAL Automatic rifle made by the Belgian factory Fabrique Nationale. FAL is the abbrevations for "Fusil Automatique Leger".The FN FAL (T48) was was part for the US trials together with M14 (T44).  T44 was accepted with the designation M14. Fal was later accepted in England with the designation L1A1 SLR and in Canada designated C1.
In the same era, late 50s - early 60s Sweden experimented  with with fighting knifes, inspired by the US M3 knife. Later versions (fm/1956 and fm/1964) used a green plastic handle. A few types of bayonets were tried on this concept, the one pictured and one for G3. The fighting knife pictured is the trial model fm/1964.




Last updated 2001-08-28