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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ValhallaGH" data-source="post: 3536646" data-attributes="member: 41187">It's basically an advanced form of the simple bayonet techniques currently taught.  Such specialization would require an entirely new school of thought and years of development, focusing almost exclusively on using the weapon to its maximum, unique, advantages.  I am unaware of any such development in the real world.It could work, and it could be devastatingly effective in both close quarters and at medium to long ranges since it would (theoretically) incorporate all the advantages of a rifle and all the advantages of a spear into one technique.It's biggest flaw would be the relatively short reach of the melee options.  Most rifle-bayonet combinations in use today only increase a persons' reach by about two feet.</blockquote>