Moreover, the requirement for having a standard survival knife for pilots and aircrews across the DoD was due to economic considerations and budgeting constraints at the time which fostered standardization across the military services. The design features for this knife came about through various inputs from servicemembers, survivability researchers, and training developers. As such, this knife was not intended as a frontiersman or bush craft knife, per se. “The Air Force Survival Knife was designed to meet a particular requirement for the military. This knife comes with a leather sheath and sharpening stone that fits in a snap closing compartment on the sheath.
The knife has a unpolished leather handle and extra beefy hexagonal butt for use as emergency hammer. The US Air Force Survival Knife made by Camillus (and other manufactures during the war) has a 5″ black phosphate coated high carbon blade with a sawtooth back. Aircrew Survival/Egress Knife (ASEK) used by U.S. While the SOG Bowie or Recon Knife is the most well known of SOG knifes a lot of recon teams thought the knife wasn’t the best in the field, so another very common knife was the Air Force’s survival knife.
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