5.11 Tactial has a new breaching tool that would make Mad Max drool. The Multi Break and Rake features a long steel pipe handle with a vicious, 1055 steel blade on top. The 5.11 guys showed it off at Shot Show 2012 as part of their new breaching tool line scheduled to be available this spring.
The purpose of this tool is give you extended reach; to break glass, rake it out and clean out the frame,” 5.11 officials said.
The hooked blade looks like something barbarians would carry into battle centuries ago. It has a wicked spike and jagged teeth on both sides of the blade.
Check the video after the break.
Similar window breaking tools on the market feature polymer handles, which can get stuck in sharp glass. That’s why 5.11 designed its tool with hydraulic pipe steel. The weight wasn’t available, but it’s going to be somewhere between 7-10 pounds, 5.11 officials said.
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Are barbarians the new zombies?
Why not use a standard firefighting hook? If it’s good enough for the vent man of an FDNY ladder company, it’s good enough-and probably a lot less expensive.
John, you’re missing the whole point. This thing looks wicked. All your friends and family will either be scared “S” less or will be very envious of you.
That’s what it’s all about.
Sort of.
Either that or if you get the job of the Grim Reaper! LOL
You have to admit that tool would be invaluable for close quarters tussels with zombies. It looks like it would to the job on multiple zombie noogins, and permanently put them to sleep. An excellent zombie slayer. In the meantime, it would also make a useful breeching tool.
1055 steel? That’s about as cheap as it gets, if you’re talking quality. The higher the number, the better the metal. If memory serves 1055 is what paperclips are made out of.
If I’m completely wrong, let me know. Or if I missed the ball completely. It’s been a while since I was in heavy industry.
There are also better tools out there. Kit-Up may have done a bit on one a while back… Maybe not. I’d have to check. But it was able to be attached to the riot shield.
Just so you all know…. When you’re going for a window breach you need a compact tool with a LOT of punch. And you go in full force.
Anyone know how long it is? It looks long. Which is bad. You want to bust out the window…. Not the faces of the driver and passenger.
So I’m not liking it, at the moment.
Well the 1xxx part of the 1055 just means it’s a carbon steel and not nickle (2xxx), or Chromium (5xxx) or whatever. The x0xx in 1055 means it’s just carbon, no other materials are used in the steel. The 55 part of 1055 refers to the tens and hundreds of a percent the steel is Carbon. In this case .55% carbon.
Awesome input, nraddin. Thanks.
Looks like an excellent tool for ripping open wiremesh security windows in buildings don’t really think this is meant for vehicles. It would need to have some weight to it to clean/remove the window sill/frame so entry can be made safer. Nothing worse than cutting the $ hit out of yourself climbing through a broken window.
I am in the estate demolition remodeling business. This is an awesome tool. Where can I get one?
“The purpose of this tool is give you extended reach; to break glass, rake it out and clean out the frame,” 5.11 officials said.”
Yeah right… we all know what it’s made for …
The Turkey Head. I expect that is what a crew will really call it.
1055 is good enough, production costs of using 440C, ATS34, or S30V would triple and it’s overall performance wouldn’t – it’s just an impact tool, not a surgical instrument. Basically it’s a shop fabricated halberd. No doubt some extended reach could be useful if superheated gases are behind the glass, but the average fire ax/halligan can get the job done – and it would be a lot less unwieldy inside.
Just more zombie marketing to youthful indiscretion. It’s all about sucking money out of the target demographic.
I was thinking Rhino Parrot, but there’s probably a lawsuit attached to that. Don’t confuse strip clubs and firearms!
Conan would have like this!
Okay this is totally wicked looking! However who the **** is gonna carry something that large and cumbersome?
” 1055 Carbon Steel (Cold Steel products)
1055 steel is right on the border between a medium and a high carbon steel, with a carbon content between 0.50%-0.60% and with manganese between 0.60%-0.90% as the only other component. The carbon content and lean alloy make this a shallow hardening steel with a quenched hardness between Rc 60-64 depending on exact carbon content. These combination of factors make this one of the toughest steels available because, when quenched, it produces a near saturated lathe martensite with no excess carbides, avoiding the brittleness of higher carbon materials. This steel is particularly suited to applications where strength and impact resistance is valued above all other considerations and will produce blades of almost legendary toughness.”
While I’m not saying this is BS, and admitting I’m not a metallurgist, I’m hesitant to take advice on a product, from someone who stands to profit from me buying it. No knife company is ever going to admit “Yeah, we stamp these out of the cheapest sheet steel we can find, and cover it in spray paint.”
Of course, I could be wrong, and I likely am.
Not entirely wrong. Everyone always says they’ve got the best this and that. It’s competition. If you’re looking at two comparable items and you ask about one the guy who made it is going to dress it up as pretty as possible for you.
If I’m going to make an item purchase I always research it, first. Kit-Up, and sites like it, are great helps. Newegg is a site that takes the review of products to great length.
Speaking of…. Why doesn’t Kit-Up sell stuff? I smell money not being made…
This is for busting out crackhouse windows, not car windows. The length is necessary so one is not in front of the window, presenting a perfect target. For those that are complaining it’s cheap, I wouldn’t want to expose a fine expensive blade to crackhouse demo mess. Also, if you haven’t had the pleasure of working for one, police departments and sheriff’s offices are cheap and cost adverse.
That is very true. I’m sure this is the kind of thing where you really don’t want to be replacing one every time you take out a window, but you don’t want to pay more than you absolutely have to. Making it out of cheap steel is probably a well-thought out business plan, and making the handle out of metal gives it some extra heft and leverage. This thing would probably punch through walls, much less windows.
Yeah, I can see that. Maybe it’s not such a bad idea after all.
It’s not very feasable for law enforcement, though. Windows are used by SWAT to deploy bangs or completely rip the wall down. Your average crackhouse bust is done through the front door.
Crackhouses and especially stash houses in areas that I have worked in usually have those ghetto gates (reinforced front porches with iron gates and bars all the way around the front door.) A lot of times, the windows are a faster option for entry, or as you pointed out, bang deployment. Like any good LE tool, this gives you options, a good thing in any situation.
Its probably case-by-case, department-by-department, what their SOP is for entering a house. You might take the house today by the window, but you took the one last week by the door. Maybe next week we’ll send a guy down the chimney. “this is a ho-ho-holdup!”
What I can see, this is the only Break´n Rake tool on the market you can use for buses, trains, building windows etc. Even against the most strongest glas. You crash the glas with the rear side and do the cleaning with the front.. Best tool on the market, coming sooon with different lengths i think. Made by pro.. for pro..
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I forget one thing.. this tool is not made of 1055 Steel.. This is very high quality Swedish Steel like Hardox (650)
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