MPL-50 entrenching tool

MPL-50 entrenching tool (MPL-50)

MPL-50 (Malaya Pekhotnaya Lopata 50 - "Small Infantry Spade 50") is a small spade invented by a Danish officer Mads Johan Buch Linnemann in 1869. While nominally an entrenching tool, MPL-50 saw a wide range of wartime applications ranging from a close quarters combat weapon to a cooking utensil.