Strider SMF

Strider SMF
"Numbered Civilian Version (C0060) of the Strider MARSOC SMF"
Type	Folding Knife
Place of origin	San Marcos, California, USA
Service history
Wars	War on Terror, Operation Iraqi Freedom
Production history
Designer	Mick Strider & Duane Dwyer
Designed	2002
Manufacturer	Strider Knives
Produced	2003 - present
Number built	300+
Variants	MARSOC Numbered Version, Civilian Numbered Version, Unmarked Version, NSN Knife
Specifications
Length	9 in (23 cm)
Blade length	4 in (10 cm)
Blade type	Drop point S30V Steel
Hilt type	G10 and 64AVL Titanium
Scabbard/sheath	Cordura Pouch or Pocket Clip

The Strider MARSOC SMF is a framelock folding knife that was specifically developed for Detachment 1, the first SOCOM unit of the United States Marine Corps. The Strider SMF was the first knife issued to an individual Marine Corps unit in over 60 years and the first tactical folder issued within the USMC.

The SMF knife is manufactured by Strider Knives of San Marcos, California. The knife features a 4 in (10 cm) drop point flat ground tiger striped blade of CPM S30V steel. The handle is composed of a fire anodized titanium frame, oil impregnated bronze bushings, an oversized pivot screw 0.19 in (0.48 cm) in diameter, and a textured G10 glass-reinforced plastic scale with an incorporated backspacer. The National Stock Number () for the SMF knife is 1095-01-531-5015.

The latest version of this knife (generation 2 and above) includes the Hinderer Lockbar Stabilizer, a mechanism designed by custom knifemaker Rick Hinderer and licensed for use by Strider. The lockbar stabilizer is a metal disc contained in the titanium lockbar which is designed to preserve the life of the framelock by preventing overtravel and flex. The original knives designed for the Marines' SOCOM unit in 2003 do not include this feature, but subsequent versions do.

The last time the Marine Corps issued a knife to an individual unit was in 1942, when a variation of the Fairbairn-Sykes fighting knife was redesigned by Lieutenant Colonel Clifford H. Shuey and produced by the Camillus Cutlery Company of Camillus, New York. That knife was called the United States Marine Raider Stiletto and was issued to Marine Raiders until the unit was disbanded in 1944.¹