Blade Weapons

	Blade Weapons An edged weapon, or bladed weapon, is a hand-to-hand combat weapon with a cutting edge. Bladed weapons include swords, daggers, knives, and bayonets. Edged weapons are used to cut, hack, or slash; some edged weapons (such as many kinds of swords) may also permit thrusting and stabbing. Edged weapons contrast with blunt weapons such as Mace (bludgeon), maces, and with pointed weapons such as spears. Many edged agricultural tools such as machetes, hatchets, axes, sickles, sling blades, and scythes, have been used as improvised weapons by peasantry, militia, or irregular forces – particularly as an expedient for self-defense, defence. Edged weapons and blades, as well as other cold weapons, are associated with the premodern age but continue to be used in modern armies. Combat knives and knife bayonets are used for close combat or stealth operations and are issued as a secondary or Sidearm (weapon), sidearm. Modern bayonets are often intended to be used in a dual role as both a com ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Swords In Great Hall (8594556211) A sword is an edged and bladed weapons, edged, bladed weapon intended for manual cutting or thrusting. Its blade, longer than a knife or dagger, is attached to a hilt and can be straight or curved. A thrusting sword tends to have a straighter blade with a pointed tip. A slashing sword is more likely to be curved and to have a sharpened cutting edge on one or both sides of the blade. Many swords are designed for both thrusting and slashing. The precise definition of a sword varies by historical epoch and geographic region. Historically, the sword developed in the Bronze Age, evolving from the dagger; the Bronze Age sword, earliest specimens date to about 1600 BC. The later Iron Age sword remained fairly short and without a crossguard. The spatha, as it developed in the Late Roman army, became the predecessor of the European sword of the Middle Ages, at first adopted as the Migration Period sword, and only in the High Middle Ages, developed into the classical Knightly sword, ar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Irregular Forces Irregular military is any military component distinct from a country's regular armed forces, representing non-standard militant elements outside of conventional governmental backing. Irregular elements can consist of militias, private armies, mercenaries, or other non-state actors, though no single definition exists beyond exclusion from national service. Without standard military unit organization, various more general names are often used; such organizations may be called a ''troop'', ''group'', ''unit'', ''column'', ''band'', or ''force''. Irregulars are soldiers or warriors that are members of these organizations, or are members of special military units that employ irregular military tactics. This also applies to irregular infantry and irregular cavalry units. Irregular warfare is warfare employing the tactics commonly used by irregular military organizations. This often overlaps with asymmetrical warfare, avoiding large-scale combat and focusing on small, stealth ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Martial Arts Weapons Weapons used in the world's martial arts can be classified either by type of weapon or by the martial arts school using them. By weapon type Handheld weapons * Bladed weapons Swords: see Types of swords Knives Daggers: see List of daggers Axe Sickle Kama *War hammer Polearms Halberd Spear Guandao War scythe * Blunt weapons Clubs/ Mace/ Baton Stick/ Staff/Sjambok Tonfa/ (side handled) baton Knuckleduster Projectile weapons * Bow and arrow * Crossbow * Bullet-shooting crossbow * Slingshot * Slings * Boomerang * Blowgun * Shuriken * Chakram * Firearm * Taser * Ballistic knife Flexible weapons * Chain weapons * Whips * Ropes * Tabak-Toyok * Slapjack * Nunchaku * Jōhyō Defensive weapons * List of defensive weapons Pepper spray Armours *** Shields By martial arts tradition * Eskrima * Kendo * Pencak Silat: Weapons of pencak silat * Kalarippayattu Swordsmanship: * Chinese swordsmanship ** Japanese swordsmanship * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	List Of Medieval Weapons This is a list of weapons that were used during the medieval period. Handheld weapons * Battle axe * Bec de corbin * Bludgeon * Club * Flail * Flanged mace * Horseman's pick * Mace * Morning star * Quarterstaff * Shestopyor, Pernach * War hammer Swords and bladed weapons Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight. * Arming sword * Dagger * Estoc * Falchion * Katana * Knife * Longsword * Messer * Rapier * Sabre or saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period) * Shortsword * Ulfberht (Frankish) Scythe War scythe * Poleaxe * Spear * Scimitar Projectile weapons * Bows English Longbow * Daikyu * English longbow * Welsh longbow Recurved bows * Hungarian bow * Perso-Parthian bow Short bows and reflex bows * Gungdo * Hankyu * Mongol bow * Turkish bow Crossbows * Arbalest *** Crossbow * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
	Lists Of Swords Lists of swords: * List of historical swords * List of Japanese swords List of National Treasures of Japan (crafts: swords) List of Wazamono * List of mythological swords * List of fictional swords * List of types of swords * Classification of swords {{DEFAULTSORT:Swords ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	List Of Premodern Combat Weapons This is a list of notable types of weapons that were used in warfare, and more broadly in combat, prior to the advent of the early modern period, i.e., approximately prior to the start of the 16th century. It therefore excludes objects that may be broadly understood as weapons but are not combat weapons, such as ceremonial weapons and ritual tools shaped or conceptualized as weapons, hunting weapons, and other items that may be perceived as weapons but for which there is no historical evidence of their use in combat during the relevant period. The entries are grouped according to their uses, with similar weapons categorized together. Some weapons may fit more than one category (e.g. the spear may be used either as a polearm or as a projectile), and the earliest gunpowder weapons that fill within this period are also included. Hand-to-hand combat Hand or fist weapons and fans Single-handed weapons not resembling a straight dagger blade, usually wielded without wrist action; of ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]
picture info	Entrenching Tool An entrenching tool (UK), intrenching tool (US), E-tool, or trenching tool is a digging tool used by military forces for a variety of military purposes. Survivalists, campers, hikers, and other outdoors groups have found it to be indispensable in field use. Modern entrenching tools are usually collapsible and made using steel, aluminum, or other light metals. History and development Entrenching tools go back at least to the times of the Roman Legions, Roman Legion who used a type of mattock known as a dolabra. Julius Caesar, as well as other ancient writers, documented the use of spade, spades and other digging implements as important tools of war. The Roman Legion when on the march would dig a ditch and rampart (fortification), rampart fortified with mobile Sudis (stake), stakes around their camps every night where established camps were not available. Siege tactics throughout history required the digging of fortifications and often mining of walls was attempted, where sappin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu]