1. However, the advantages of sword bayonets over spike bayonets are evident. 2. Twisting a sword bayonet in the wound was especially lethal. 3. A shorter version of the sword bayonet , the knife bayonet, was developed. 4. Like sword bayonets , they can be used not only for thrusting, but also for cutting. 5. He should say that the injuries could not have been inflicted by a bayonet or a sword bayonet . 6. Where a spike bayonet turns the rifle into a spear, a sword bayonet turns it into a glaive. 7. By the end of the nineteenth century all infantry had become riflemen and the sword bayonet had become the standard infantry bayonet. 8. Before the advent of modern medicine after World War I, a soldier struck by a sword bayonet was very unlikely to survive. 9. Today, sword bayonets of this style are said to have " yataghan " blades, or to be " yataghan-bladed ". 10. Since rifles were shorter than muskets their bayonets needed to be longer to produce the same total length; the sword bayonet answered this need.
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