I bought a Busse Combat knife around 15 years ago. Comments of that era indicated that Busse had replaced Randall as the military combat professionals tool of choice. Special Forces soldiers and whatnot were allowed to pick whatever knife they wanted, and they picked pricey custom stuff. The vendors put them at the front of the buying line, as they were supporting the military and it was great marketing.
When I bought my Busse (top item), they were aggressively going after the stupid-overpriced-collector market. Mine is named the NMSFNO, or “Nuclear Meltdown Special Forces Natural Outlaw.” They had a ton of goofy names for virtually identical “limited release” items, but I think they eventually gave up on that. I used mine, as I refuse to be the guy who keeps a bunch of safe queen stuff and as Busse brags about its ultra-tough proprietary INFI steel.
Ultra tough <> ultra sharp