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Throwing star "Rotačka"


The throwing star "Rotačka" was to be intended units of the CSLA military, depth and special survey.


It was developed in 1985, the manufacturer was Aquacentrum Prague. Efficient use was calculated up to 7 m. The star consists of two rhombus-shaped arms, which are made of steel sheet 4.5 mm thick. On the outside there is a circular, on the inside a rectangular recess, in the middle there is a hole for a connecting screw with nylon washers and a nut. The ends of the arms are ground and roughened for easier gripping. The whole weapon is carried in a sewn leather case. Before use, the arms are rotated perpendicular to each other and secured with a screw.



TTD:

length:
.. mm
width:
28
blade length:
60 mm
weight without case:
350 g



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Source:
www.knife.cz
Konopiský, P .: What is what? Bonus. Střelecká revue, vol. 1992, No 7
Blahout, P., Blahout, P., Koníčk, M. Paratroopers and explorers of the Czechoslovak and Czech armies 1945 - 1999. Ares and Our Army, 2001
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Of course the "Letterpress" as such cannot be considered as the result of some activity from the top or "the invention of an official of the general staff" then the NUMBER.

The paratroopers and explorers, already "by nature" accustomed to improvisation, often making a throwing or hand-to-hand knives, needles, throwing stars of various shapes and sizes and other weapons, which could be relatively invisibly to wear, quick to prepare for use and noiselessly by them in the fight to hit the "target" with a high probability of intervention, of course depending on the distance the use of such weapons.

It is possible that the primal cause of the formation of such products could be some problems when trying to throw an assault knife, prudent "reluctance himself to disarm" in the case of unaffected targets, and last but not least, the punishment, the impending for damage to or the loss of agency that exists to run (i.e. registered) material.

Likes (not too welcome commander, and material authorities of the ordnance department of the service), for example, providing vytěráky from the Sa vz.61 on the stabbing implement/hand needles, among the scarce material belonged to the leafy pens, used for the production of "knives that always cut" with a lightweight frame handle, the chief of the club is constantly fretted and complained that the guitars amateur musical group soldiers of the strings won't last a week and the above mentioned starfish (in various forms) appeared long before that, over a rusting "Iron curtain" managed to sneak the first video and movies with Bruce Lee.

"The printing press" have been for some time tested with more or less success with the services and facilities of the then NUMBER and it might be in the archives of the current MO trace, what was the reason for their failure to introduce into armament. In any case, it was an unorthodox weapon, whose effective use would probably be affected by many influences.

Yet it can be considered weapon usable, but not totally efficient and flawless.

However, I can say that was truly functional - I used it (in training) more than a year and the only thing I "didn't fit" was the need to tighten the center nut. Case I used, the spikes I tp my paper... I found it more practical to prepare "to use"..
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Diskuse

2 Shiner:
You're making that you're a letterpress used for more than 1 year, was officially introduced in JANUARY, or it was just about the troop trials, or it was some kind of partyzánština?.
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In the context of military tests, we have used it around the year, the biggest pain was writing at the end of the protocol, oddly enough, or rather, logically most of the jibber jabber to a gym teacher. However, even when I finally came back, we did not hesitate and on the čot we "copied" and tried to improve need to be at the opening of "samozacvakávací", just to be with her man didn't have to, so long nitpicky before throwing.
Exams was quite a pain in the ass, once we have it until the evening looking for just because that friend "in the heat of testing" while throwing on the old "anton" (one of those stuffed leather mannequin for practice of the match) said "Put on his helmet, vo..e" and if after the third roll of "hit" and there was a "bzzzinnnng", the starfish disappeared through the branches of trees somewhere in the bushes... Luckily we thought to take it minohledačku, but even so, fun was had, starfish was far enough away.
We tried starfish also use it as a stabbing implement knife, but there was lacking handle and with half the housing it pretty good...
The starfish was quite an interesting weapon, but downright dedicated, with no long-range (7-10 m not much) and how to express buddy, "when after vo..ovi throw a silencer, so with that házedlem I have exactly the same chance that I'll kill him. Little and I still have to hit".

We did various experiments with the arrow keys/pins, tricuspid asterisk "according to ábíčka", by brass knives and lots of other "weapons" until they managed to hit one bachelor bolou with the lead weight to the head, and in sick bay wrote it as a mutual fight - he had a bump as the smaller chicken eggs in the nape of the neck, another on his forehead and a black eye and stripes from the clutches...
The biggest joke I experienced when the boys brought from the boiler (then so called) gypsy with the fact that they teach them with motýlkovým knife and ended up kotloš, when he's in the infirmary sewed, cried because of the permanent consequences that I won't be able to normally operate the "craft" - was "in civilian clothes" pickpocket...

But I need to wire a saw, the soviets had them as a hacksaw tour, I her for and "on paper, I lost it" because my original original English destroyed one of the commanders of the platoons, when the soldiers showed, "the way she has the right to cut"...

As it was with this apparatus/glaive, but I don't remember anything special, perhaps that it "has developed" a company in Moravia, who did the sports equipment... and Aqua was supposed to be the one who could produce therefore, that belonged at that time Placed....
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V OSSR sú evidované a odkladané dodnes.
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