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OKC-3S is the model number applied in-house by Ontario Knife Company to this bayonet for the U. S. Rifles, Cal. 5.56mm, M16/A1/A2/A3/A4, consistent with OKC's inventorying practice; as I understand things, however, the Armed Forces officially refer to the OKC-3S by a name consistent with current United States Army practice: the U. S. Bayonet M10 (in sequence after the U. S. Bayonet M9, still U. S. Army official issue as of December 2008, developed at Qual-A-Tec, initially manufactured by Buck Knives, and now competitively manufactured among OKC and Camillus Cutlery; and ahead of the M9-based U. S. Knife, EOD, M11), even though the M10 is a U.S.M.C. weapons project evolved from the Knife Mk 2 Mod 1 (originally developed with Ka-Bar and likewise secondary-contracted to OKC and Camillus). However, due to Website reconstruction at both Army.mil and USMC.mil, the links to confirm this estimate are wanting. Has anyone an archived link here, or results from a new search? (This name "Bayonet M10" is also used on several eBay Items-For-Sale postings as of 08:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC), but I'm after an "official" reference link from a subserver of USMC.mil or a related U. S. Government reference Website.) — B. C. Schmerker (talk) 08:34, 2 December 2008 (UTC)[reply]
I can prove nothing and I can find no documentation, but the shape of the blade of the M10--look particularly at the length of the sharpened false edge and the angle at which it descends to the point--looks very much like, very very much like, the distinctive-looking Bowie knives made by one "Bo" Randal in the 1960s:
