Nož M1951

Yugoslavian M51 combat knife
Type	Combat knife
Designation	Nož M 1951
Place of Origin	SFRY
Produced	Early 1960s
Manufacturer(s)	Military Workshop No.69, Zagreb
Material(s)	Unknown
Evolved from	NR-40
Evolved into	Unknown
Service
Used by	Yugoslavian People's Army
Wars	Yugoslav Wars

The Nož M 1951 (English: Knife Model 1951) is a combat knife of Yugoslavian origin.

Overview

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After WW2, hand to hand combat got special attention and was under Soviet influence. At the beginning of the 1960s, the Army got a new homemade knife (kama) M.1951 (j), based on the Soviet army knife (NR)40.

The price of a single M51 knife was 25 dinara (cca 7 DEM), according to a price list from 1.7.1970. It was meant for the soldiers (fighters) belonging to scout, saboteur and paratrooper units. Its fiery baptism was 4 decades after being made (by then regarded as old, and mostly given to units of the Territorial Defense - Teritorijalna obrana /TO/), in the hands of the enemy of the Yugoslav People's Army (JNA). During a brief conflict (The Ten-Day War), in June 1991, the Territorial Defense issued this knife to all soldiers/fighters who were issued the M56 submachine gun - because of lack of M56 bayonets. The last paragraph mentions a navy knife with a braid for the knife ("nož mornarski sa gajtanom za nož") and a brief description.

Gallery

Screenshot of the pages about the knife from the book by B. Bogdanović

Screenshot of the pages about the knife from the book by B. Bogdanović

Materials and measurements (from the B. Bogdanović book)