Stiletto for ranging distance. The stiletto was later adopted throughout Italy as the favored offensive thrusting knife ("arma manesca") of the medieval assassin,<ref name="ATK"/ so much so that it was invariably prohibited as a treacherous weapon ("arma insidiosa") by the authorities of the day. The stiletto was preferred by assassins as it was silent, easily concealed inside a sleeve or jacket, and featured a blade capable of easily penetrating the heavy leather and fabric clothing of the day, while inflicting mortal wounds that tended to bleed less than those made by other types of knives. In Italy, the stiletto began to
M80 Stiletto on board, will be able to send real-time images to the team on shore. The Stiletto was selected by Time magazine as one of the Best Inventions of 2006 and one of two inventions in the Armed Forces category. San Diego-based CONNECT named the M80 Stiletto as the Most Innovative New Product for 2006 in the General Technology category. In 2008, the Stiletto deployed on a 70-day mission for USSOUTHCOM as part of a joint agency operation that included the Drug Enforcement Administration and U.S. Coast Guard. In July 2012, the US Navy deployed the Stiletto to retrieve the NASA