Hello,

I have a Glock knife (with saw) since 20 years. It's not a good knife for cutting like bushcrafting or field dressing.

The carbon steel is not very hard (+- 54 HRc I think)but resilient (Charpy test).
The geometry of the blade is narrow (a little less without saw). These knifes have a blade quite like US M3, but the extremity is more blunted and less weak (nowadays equipement like chest riggs are full of metal).
It's true that the coating is weak, but who care in the field ?

It's a good knife for stabbing or make your work on the field (cut the iron of ammunition boxes, open wood boxes, stabbing jerrycan, small prying, dig holes....). It is very resilient. One more feature : with the guard of the knife you could open bottles, it's a good way to preserve your rifle (sometimes soldiers open beers with parts of their rifles).

The sheat in plastic is very very good. Hard plastic make it "idiot proof" if you fall on your side.
You could hold it on your right our left side (ambidextrous).
You could put it on your beltt or take off very easily without open your belt.
You could bring your knife with only one hand because you have a secure clip thet you could open with only two fingers.
If you choose the good one on shop, it's quite noiseless.

So I think that for the price this is a good tool for duty service. Personnaly I use it on my rucksack when hunting, to kill wounded wild boars (stabbing) when dogs are on the animal.

I have some others good knifes, more prestigious, or with better geometry blades or steel for bushcrafting or field dressing (ex : Roselli hunter in UHC and another with +- 1075).

We must consider that for an army the price of the equipement must be low for financial purpose. For soldiers, it is better to have a 20$ good knife than to NOT have an hypothetic 200$ very good knife.
This knife was made at a time (80's) in the past that you have a four millions army on the borders. So no time to increase expense for equipment after the beginning of the war....and wait for good equipement before engaging the real battle.
You have to deal, in a democracy, with others expenses that citizen want in peace times. I think that for this reason it's is not "top of notch" knive, it's a good tool.

But, If I had to go somewhere on the "Limes of Empire", like austrian army tradition, I would think twice about this knife.


(Sorry for my english, I could read easily but it's difficult to explain technical term in english. So I must use very simple words and must be quite rude. If you don't understand my english, ask me for more explanation.)

didier.