Knife



A Knife, or known primarily as a Combat Knife, Fighting Knife or Throwing Knife, is a knife designed for military use, specifically for close combat. Although since the end of trench warfare, most military knives have been primarily designed for utility/tool use (clearing foliage, chopping branches for cover, opening ammunition crates, etc).

Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII
The Throwing Knife is new content from Battlefield 1942: Secret Weapons of WWII. It is simply a standard army knife/dagger that can be thrown an enemy infantry, and is used for both allies and axis troops.

Battlefield: Bad Company 2
Knives also appear in Battlefield: Bad Company 2. They are a standard melee weapon, which can silently take down an opponent in a single hit. The knife is also a useful tool for knocking away certain destructable barriers in one hit. For example, a single slash of the knife will smash windows, break down chain-linked fences, barbed-wire, wooden doors, wooden railings, and many other light physical barriers in the players path. Using the knife to knock away barriers provides the player with a way to move around more freely, and without wasting ammunition. You can also knife people through doors.

When you knife somebody in the multiplayer of Bad Company 2, you recieve an award called a dogtag. This, when playing, appears as a bronze, steel or golden dogtag, with the victim's name written below it. You can also recieve medals for kniving people multiple times in streaks. The dogtags from all of your past victims, can be viewed in the main menu. This is a way to see the sheer amount of knife kills you have earned, and a memento to remind you of killing certain people.

It also appears that when you use the knife, in the multiplayer and in the campaign, that you pull it out of a sheath, and then perform a vertical stab.

Trivia

 * This is the first Battlefield game where you are not allowed to wield the knife as a weapon, it now functions more as a melee than a CQC weapon.
 * It's worth noting that the weapon used is actually an M9 bayonet rather than a stand-alone combat knife.