>>777495you know the saying, that the best "survival knife" is the one you have when shit goes south?
Military issue is not a good indicator, since, like Murphy said: "trooper, remember, your gear was made by the cheapest contractor".
Gerber is probably even worse - those are a bunch of knives using bear grylls' name for marketing. Now, if they used another name, that might be different, but Mors Kochansky pushes the skookum bush tool (a $200 knife with a 12+ month waiting list to get one, afaik), Mears has his woodlore (probably the most copied one though).
The cheapest one is probably Les Stroud's collaboration with Helle - called the Temagami.
It all depends on how much you are willing to spend - many online retailers ship all over the world.
Of those brands that you mentioned, I'd probably go with cold steel - some of their stuff (ok, a lot of their stuff) is meme-tier, and a bit on the expensive side (strictly speaking, they're not charging that much more than other companies for comparable stuff, but more than their reputation would deem prudent).
For YURP (which is also where I live), there is
lamnia.comon the plus side - you don't get hit with tax/customs. On the other hand - you do get hit with tax and customs - discretely (simply factored into the price), so you may end up paying a lot. I used them a few times, but that's me - you may value your money differently.
