the REAL way to make a silent kill

[Eddo36]

I've read some of Marine Mike Reviews here, and thought to add one of my own like his.

There is a myth going on about slitting somebody's throat with a knife is a silent kill. It is anything but silent. The enemy will gurgle and thrash around until his brains run out of oxygen, creating a lot of noise in the process.

No, if you want a silent kill, you gotta put your blade at the indent at the base of your enemy's skull (bone is thin there) and slam upward at a 45-degree angle. You'll scramble his medulla oblongata and the motor senses are cut off immediately.

I think they did that in one of the later CoD games, like Black Ops.

 

[Eddo36]

Bone is thin at that indent at the back of your head (mentioned that). I'm sure a Kabar type would do. Not talking about a pocket knife here.

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

My dad was a commando, and I seem to remember him mentioning clapping a hand over the victim's mouth and just stabbing him in the throat as much as possible.

He may have been telling me tall tales, however...
I was only about ten at the time...

 

[NinjaDeathSlap]

Good luck trying to stick a knife through the entire spine at the base of the skull.

45 degree angle would mean you're aiming roughly at the nose or upper mouth by the way.

I think he means a 45 degree angle up rather than down, and with a sharp enough knife and a little force it would be piss easy. The spine there is nowhere near as resistant as it is lower down.

 

[otakon17]

What about a trench spike through the skull or temple?

 

[Eddo36]

And the point of this thread is....?

Same as those Marine Mike Reviews? Clearing myth.

 

[Eddo36]

Good luck trying to stick a knife through the entire spine at the base of the skull.

45 degree angle would mean you're aiming roughly at the nose or upper mouth by the way.

I think he means a 45 degree angle up rather than down, and with a sharp enough knife and a little force it would be piss easy. The spine there is nowhere near as resistant as it is lower down.

Yeah, I did mention "upward".

 

[Devious Boomer]

Do the deed in space. Ta-da! Perfectly silent kill.

 

[Blackpapa]

You are correct, OP.

Reference material:
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All in all I don't recommend learning those techniques from games.

The perfect knife for performing this technique would be something like the Cold Steel AK-47. However I still would choose the versatility of a longer knife for overt use.

 

[Redratson]

My dad was a commando, and I seem to remember him mentioning clapping a hand over the victim's mouth and just stabbing him in the throat as much as possible.

He may have been telling me tall tales, however...
I was only about ten at the time...

Thats the way I always knew how to make a silent kill work, or all of the old war movies with commandos and or criminal-to-commandos movies were lying to me since I was 8.

 

[Lt_Bromhead]

My dad was a commando, and I seem to remember him mentioning clapping a hand over the victim's mouth and just stabbing him in the throat as much as possible.

He may have been telling me tall tales, however...
I was only about ten at the time...

Thats the way I always knew how to make a silent kill work, or all of the old war movies with commandos and or criminal-to-commandos movies were lying to me since I was 8.

Wait, does this make my dad....*shudders*....RIGHT?!

Oh god. :/

 

[Tax_Document]

Huh? Slicing the jugular is one of the most efficient types of killing available, just clamp your hand over their mouth to muffle the gurglin' and off you pop to another slaughter.

 

[Not-here-anymore]

Very few kills are 'silent'. But somehow I don't see CoD forcing people to wait 30 seconds whilst their character writhes on the floor in agony, their movements getting smaller and less effective as they bleed out...

Also, if you can hold someone's mouth for a couple of seconds, apparently you can cut the nerves in the spinal column with a knife between vertebrae. Just as silent, as the recently stabbed can no longer move or breathe.
(Disclaimer one: Read it in a few books, I'm not some kind of knife-wielding maniac)
(Disclaimer two: Said books were fictional. This may be bullshit, though it sounds like it would work)

 

[spartan231490]

between vertebra is just as silent, and easier. And the throat isn't a silent kill, but it's a quiet kill. You would be hard-pressed to hear the gurgling and struggling from very far off, but a scream can travel quite a distance. So no, slitting the throat isn't silent, but it's close enough for more situations. Kidney is an interesting techniche too. It causes so much pain that the throat closes and you can't scream right away. so It's silent for a few seconds.

A garrote works too, if you're good enough to get it between the vertebra. And once again, most times you don't need a truly silent kill, just a quit one, and slitting the throat is pretty quiet.

Also, you're not going to thrash as long as you think(for most people). The rapid decrease in blood pressure in the brain that results from cutting both carotids will cause most people to pass out immediately(and not much longer than immediately if just one is cut). Same thing if you stop the heart completely, so those two are usually gonna be completely silent. Admittedly, to cut both carotids would probably be almost impossible with a knife, but a garrote would do the trick. Also, some rare cases, the person will not pass out, so it's not 100%

Also, no kill will be completely silent unless you're strong enough to catch the body and lower it to the ground, which is harder than it sounds, especially if you first have to ram a knife into the guys skull will all your strength(which would also make a slight sound as the bone breaks). So, basically, there is no such thing as an absolutely silent kill, the question is how quit you want it.

 

[Blackpapa]

Huh? Slicing the jugular is one of the most efficient types of killing available, just clamp your hand over their mouth to muffle the gurglin' and off you pop to another slaughter.

What? No.

The gurgling sound actually comes from the neck. Hitting the jugular without severing the windpipe is hard on a incapacitated subject as it is (see video). It's not really possible to do reliably in the field.

Besides chances are you won't completely transect the jugular in one move. Sure it'll EVENTUALLY result in a kill but it will take longer than movies make you think and won't be nowhere near as clean.

 

[NotSoLoneWanderer]

or you could just drop a 2000lb bomb from near orbit like in real life

 

[Blackpapa]

between vertebra is just as silent, and easier. And the throat isn't a silent kill, but it's a quiet kill. You would be hard-pressed to hear the gurgling and struggling from very far off, but a scream can travel quite a distance. So no, slitting the throat isn't silent, but it's close enough for more situations. Kidney is an interesting techniche too. It causes so much pain that the throat closes and you can't scream right away. so It's silent for a few seconds.

Trying to sever the spinal cord is HARD. It's pretty solid and unless you're lucky or the subject is incapacitated chances are the blade will go off to the side.

You're right about the kidneys but a better point is the solar plexus.