History is full of creative and intricate weaponry, post all your favorite pieces.
Russian Civil War battletrains.
>>45608
btw why India and Africa have the craziest weapons? were they just mythical or actually used in battle?
>>45522
innovative?
yes
Effective?
no
I don't even know how you're supposed to wield this.
>>45557
Were those actually deployed en masse?
>>45750
I don't think so, but there was a need to protect the transport of supplies, so they became armored.
Then actually taking trains became a problem, so there ended up being skirmishes of two armored trains blowing the fuck out of each other on opposing lines. Cars would open and boarding operations would occur as well. It's badass and rarely mentioned.
>>45522
The Brixia Model 35, a 45mm light mortar capable of 12 aimed shots per minute. The Japanese had a similar weapon in the Type 89 Grenade Discharger, a 50mm light mortar that the IJA used in abundance.
The militias in the Spanish Civil War made some pretty badass makeshift vehicles. Not sure about their practicality.
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Very close to having enough dakka.
>>45750
Not en masse, but they played a major role because there was the trans-siberian railroad.
>>45979
i don't see how this is weird tho
at least compared to more experimental guns
>>45750
>Were those actually deployed en masse?
Not really en masse, but they were common through out central and eastern Europe up to WWII (Poland used about a dozen in 1939).
Last used in Chechnya
Africa is a crazy place
>>45522
This really should be on /k/ the board that was made for this kinda stuff.
>>46047
I'd imagine that could cut down a lot of enemies in a small amount of time.
>>46123
A tamer version of the same sword style
>>46123
how..... how do you kill someone with it?
>>46119
And the SVK used one in the early 1990s, the Krajina Express.
>a submarine armed with a single massive artillery gun
>>46183
Probably a ritual blade.
>>45840
>Russians were living metro 2033 before metro 2033 was a thing.
>>46138
as long as it's historical all's fine
especially swords. i love swords
>>46206
kek
>>46221
Well yeah but i dont even see how its close to resembling a weapon
>>46099
>punt gun
>weird
>implying you don't want to kill every duck on a lake in a single shot
https://www.cia.gov/library/center-for-the-study-of-intelligence/kent-csi/vol5no2/html/v05i2a09p_0001.htm
trialled by the CIA as a truth serum and a potential chemical weapon
nowadays used in rapes, muggings and other criminal activity primarily in Latin America
During the time it was used it was extremely creative
>>46099
Well I guess it's not too weird, but keep in mind that this type of gun never really appeared in the German, French, Russian, American, or British/Commonwealth arsenals. So if not 'weird', the Brixia was certainly exotic.
>>46227
Armored trains also became important with the Chinese Eastern Railway. Gregory Semenov, one of the 'White' Russian leaders in the Far East, mounted a dummy gun on a normal train car, and with eight men took over his first town.
He disarmed 500 Bolsheviks with nothing more than 8 guys, guts, and a fake train gun.
>>46279
It's a weirder version of their normal swords
>>46362
Smaller version
but this one is "automatic" and "self reloading"
just turn the crank
>>46257
Similarly silly, a submarine armed with a bunch of small guns. Basically a destroyer that could go under water.
>>46511
pretty badass desu
>>46477
>That seems the turret of a M18 GMC. That's noice.
I think it's actually a M18 attached to the traincar.
>>46047
>Having enough dakka
>Ever.
>>46553
wasent a chakram a throwing weapon?
wouldent splitting it in two make it not so aerodynamic
>>46047
I can only get so erect.
Leonardo da Vinci was an expert on this topic, even though these were just ideas.
>>46639
Scary mind, that guy
>>46639
The lower one was pretty retarded.
If by any reason, any of the hook would... well, hook something, the horse would be thrown into the front, so it would be cut by their spinning blades on the end.
Well, maybe if the binds are good enough, the horse would remain on its place, but the rider...
Egyptian Khopesh
>>46828
Yes, but da Vinci often introduced obvious mistakes in his drawing to prevent his ideas from be copied He could have put the blade higher or turn the horses 180°, meaning that it is the outside of the blade doing the cutting (the top drawing seems to indicate this was how he intended it to be)
>>46592
i don't know the details because i just googled it, but i think it can be attached lock-tight for a throwing weapon and then separated to use as two "head knives" of sorts
>>45608
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMz_Z0Xq-2I
This is the SLC - Siluro a Lenta Corsa (loosely translatable as Low Speed Torpedo), better known as "Maiale" (Pig).
It was first conceived by Raffaele Rossetti, and built by the Venetian Arsenal in 1918; Rossetti used it to sneak into the port of Pula and sink in its harbor the SMS Viribus Unitis, the best Austro-Hungarian battleship of the time, completely unnoticed.
Basically it was a torpedo that had a detachable warhead, made rideable for two frogmen, who had to sneak into enemy's port, secure the warhead to the target, activate the timer, and then get away without being discovered.
This concept was further improved by Teseo Tesei, who was a Major of the Corps of Naval Engineering, and creator of the X Flottiglia MAS (basically the original Navy Seals, now called COMSUBIN, which in turn is named after him: Comando Raggruppamento Subacquei ed Incursori Teseo Tesei); his idea was used extensively by the Regia Marina (the italian royal navy): he even managed to sink two british battleships in the same way Rossetti sinked the Viribus Unitis.
>>47797
Who the hell would volunteer for that?
>>47936
Only the bravest between the best elite forces' soldiers.
>>47936
Italians that had balls.
>>49648
>That had balls
Emphasis on "had", after literally riding a bomb into battle.
>>49648
Huh. So THAT'S how they all disappeared
>>47936
Here's how an attack with a SLC would have been conducted (it's in italian):
http://www.marina.difesa.it/storiacultura/ufficiostorico/musei/museotecnav/Pagine/IlSiluroaLentaCorsa(Maiale).aspx
tl;dr With a submarine they get close to the target, at night they take out the SLC and start riding towards the harbor, going slower and slower the closer they get; if they get discovered, they just disappear under the water; if they find a net at the entrance they find a passage or create it by lifting or cutting the net; once inside the arbor, by keeping just half of the goggles outside the water they locate the target and navigate towards it. Once they get to the target they find the stabilizer and tie the 300kg timer bomb like in picture related; they activate the timer and get the fuck out of there. Two hours and a half later, the target blows up from the fucking nowhere.
>>46099
Imagine the wreckage these things would have caused in the days of armies standing in formation and firing at each other face-to-face.
>>47936
>>48028
>>49648
>>49881
He was a big guy.
The Great Turkish bombard. A 25 inch gun built during the 15th century that was used to beat back a British fleet in 1807.
>>50275
I made an error, it was a 41.5 inch gun.
One of my personal favorites is the kpinga. I find it pretty amazing that they were able to engineer a weapon that stick into a shield but would still impale and most likely kill the defender.
>>45656
Tropical climate does weird stuff to your brain
>soldiers using the Pata were encouraged to wield two at a time so they can spin around in a windmill type fashion.
>>50608
I feel like that would be really inefficient for stabbing. Was it used for slicing instead?
>>50740
it would be pretty good for stabbing.
just gotta keep sinking points in unarmed.
>>50749
>>posting meme sidearms.
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>>50802
the katar was a sidearm, Indians mostly used boring swords and shields.
>>50781
I feel like if you stabbed the ends of the hilt would stab into your arm. Not dangerous, just an annoyance. Not to mention if you hit a bone I feel like it would just tilt the blade forward causing you to drop it
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>>45522
wouldnt a person with an axe head on the tip of their gun be easily and quickly impaled by someone with a bayonet on the tip of their gun?
I imagine it must take some time for a person to lift the gun over their head and bring the axe head down, also wouldn't they be exposing their whole torso whole lifting the fun over their head?
>>45656
indian weapons are so fucking cool.
>>45804
kek
>>46123
>that handle
nigeria?
aslo that may be a ceremonial blade
>>50861
How is it a meme?
>>51039
>because it was the equivalent of a TF2 hat.
Why do you play video games so much?
>>50474
Africans are literally orcs. This shit's straight outta Mordor.
>>51047
that was the first comparison I could think of.
The katar was associated with rajputs and they were known as master horsemen and swordsmen.
>>50237
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>>51097
this is a pretty cool weapon, though it doesnt really seem durable, like at all. Once all the obsidian bits are off of it all you have is a paddle.
not a weapon but still interesting desu
>>51039
I can understand that they were used like a boxing glove, just better hope you don't hit a bone I guess.
>>51209
Macuahuitals were surprisingly effective, and the durability wasn't much of a problem in the raid-based warfare of central America.
>>51260
you would also be wearing gauntlets and armor.
>>51209
What the hell is that made out of? Bone?
Tbh
I really like the Bardiche, it looks so brutal but it technically is a member of the halberd family
As for an exotic weapon, this probably takes it for me (somebody else posted the kickass hook swords already)
