BoingBoing published this interesting photo taken during the Tunisian revolution showing a solider equipment with a Steyr AUG and fixed bayonet.
[ Many thanks to Cam for emailing me the link. ]
I hope that bayonet is only unsheathed for the picture.
Random stabbings are not a good idea.
They were to be seen on the tv news, I was pretty amazed when I saw them – I didn’t know they were in use there.
Two words: Calf wound.
No magazine and bayonet fixed. More dangerous that way 
Good luck walking without stabbing yourself . . .
I’d be a little worried having a swinging blade that close to my legs.
Tim, maybe he ran out of ammo 
I really don’t know if the soldier put the bayonet only due the revolution… infact, when i was in Tunisia few days after Christmas 2010, I was amazed to see a policeman with the bayonet on the AUG that patrolled a square… and it was a week BEFORE the revolution. incredible… o, perhaps, i only saw a Tunisian “Rambo”…
The STEYR’s have been in service with the Tunisians since at least the Mid 80's as I was there in late 1987 (on my first honeymoon!) and saw them widely carried at Tunis Airport arriving and departing the country……….there was a periodic Military putsch going on at the time……….
Regards,
BUG
Marco, LOL, that is very interesting
I think more likely deployed in a crowd-control fashion. Less-likely to have a politically-embarrassing accidental discharge.
Has anyone noticed that AUG has a non-standard front grip? It definitely has a different shape than the standard Steyr front grip.
i saw them in the TV-news,i think that the bayonets are more for “psychological reasons “than for “real use”,any opinion ?
Tunisians are knife culture people. The bayonet has its merits in crowd control…
They likely aren’t issuing them ammunition. Outnumbered soldiers/police are prone to panic in the face of angry mobs. Panic+bullets starts a chain reaction of bloody violence that’s hard to stop. Bayonets, on the other hand, are pretty scary when you are facing them, so they make a decent compromise. They convey, “I’m not here to kill, but you had better take me seriously”.
On another note, I always thought it was funny to fix bayonets on a bullpup rifle since it only gives you an extra couple of inches of reach. LOL
I like the US supplied LBE gear and BDUs mixed with a Soviet era helmet.
People don’t dick around when they see the knife. They know they can get hurt with out the soldier firing his weapon. Effective method of deterrence
@Lance
The Helmet is French F1
Well it may be french but looks like a Russian design.
How big is this guy? 5 foot 2? The rifle looks almost as big as he is.