A Khukri (sp) has as much practical purpose in modern warfare as [censored] on a boar. Now for camping nuts who arent going to combat, that like chopping weeds/wood/brush/etc, yea, its great. For modern soldiering, sorry, no cigar. <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/thumbdn.gif" alt="" />
That seems pretty disrespectful to a honorable fighting force with a long history of service to one of our closest allies, and a force which still uses those knives in modern soldiering. Say it doesn't fit your particular needs in the types of things you're trained in, but I see no reason to dump on the Gurkha's favorite tool.
I'm one of those inferior camp nuts, and I find lots of use for it - I certainly don't plan to ever use the thing in combat, but again I wonder if you've ever actually laid hands on a kukri (one of many accepted spellings, seeing as how it's a translation from another alphabet), or if you're parroting what someone told you in a class or you read from a book?
