South African R4 Bayonet – 1st Pattern with Matching Scabbard Decorations and awards and sabotage units

and sabotage units

Original South African Defence Force (SADF) nutria-brown waterproof raincoat/parka

Interior marked “Boina Militar R

including in the Border War

South African R4 Bayonet – 1st Pattern with Matching Scabbard Decorations and awards and sabotage unitsAn original South African R4 1st Type Bayonet, developed for the R4 5. 56mm assault rifle, the licensed South African version of the Israeli Galil ARM. This early pattern bayonet features an all steel, phosphate blued construction with a distinctive tubular socket handle, numbered muzzle ring, and a matching blued scabbard. The serial numbers (examples seen: 150047 and 317685) denote local military production under Armscor (formerly LIW Lyttelton