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Wow, very nice!!!
I was reading again Bill's interesting article, where I found this sentence "the tang rod that is utilized with the standard M9 design is completely eliminated, thus reducing the manufacturing of one complete component".
I would like to know: was the full tang design (just say, only one "piece" of metal from the tip of the blade to the attach for the pommell) introduced/experimented to reduce the manufactoring cost, only?
Or, were there faults with the standard M9 configuration (where you have tow "pieces" of metal, the blade and the tang rod), like the bayonet breaking in half under intensive use?
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