Coolest/Ugliest Weapons V5 - Bullpup AKs are the best

[catbarf]

[QUOTE=Sableye;44616337]the katana wasn't THAT brittle, the japanese swordsmiths learned that you want part of the sword brittle (the back) while you want other parts flexible[/QUOTE]

Right, that's called pattern welding. You combine distinct portions of different types of steel, typically one with hardness to form an edge and one with flexibility to form a core, and then forge them together. This is what produces what's today known as Damascus steel, and was a principle method of forging in the Middle East during the early Middle Ages, and spread all across Europe. Everybody did it, it's not an amazing technique that only the Japanese could master. Pattern-welded swords have been found in remnants of Viking raids, for example.

However, that's not how modern swords are designed. I keep seeing these videos about how amazing the katana is, and then there's the tripe like on Deadliest Warrior, where they use modern reproductions of these swords using modern manufacturing techniques. They're not constrained to using iron full of impurities, where pattern welding is literally the only way to make it usable for a weapon, and instead can use steel with both flexibility [i]and[/i] durability.

Point is, the katana was, as a design, nothing more than an attempt to make do with what they had, and a lot of the mystique surrounding the design is basically a mix of weeaboo fantasy and Japanese perception of their own cultural superiority.

[Riller]

The big question is, why do weebs and the Japanese romanticize and talk up the katana like mad, when they have the fuckin' kanabo already.

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Samurai_Tokugawa_Era.jpg[/IMG]

The kanabo doesn't need no legends to be awesome, it's a fuckin' greatmace!

[Ilwrath]

[QUOTE=Zakkin;44614303]I recall there was a supposedly giant knight who could bend a penny between his finger and thumb, and he had a big ol' fuck-off giant sword. Google comes back with shit but I remember he was posted in here once or twice.[/QUOTE]

[url]http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pier_Gerlofs_Donia[/url]

[Riller]

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Shield_pistol.jpg[/IMG]

This is a shield with a built-in matchlock pistol. Pack the thread up, boys, we're done. Coolest weapon found, our quest is at it's end.

[Black034]

WHERE DO WE GO NOW RILLER?

WHY!

WHY DID YOU KILL IT SO FAST.

;_;7 rip G11 ranting, rip bakelite fetishes,

RIP 10 MM

[zukriuchen]

[QUOTE=Qaus;44615531]dual wielded effectively.[/QUOTE]

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJBEDxh0RQw[/media]

[ImpSnob]

[IMG]http://www.signature9.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/05/mexican-diamond-drug-guns.jpg[/IMG]

WONGA!

[M.Ciaster]

[QUOTE=Riller;44615498]Why? Why would you ever want two identical weapons? Got any source on this ever being used? I haven't heard any actual, real accounts of dual-wielding outside of parrying daggers and the likes.[/QUOTE]
[img] http://i.imgur.com/CFJ3vkh.gif[/img]
*drops mic*

[ImpSnob]

John Woo movies are hyper-realistic.

[Ricaaado]

[QUOTE=Zukriuchen;44617074][media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJBEDxh0RQw[/media][/QUOTE]

I love Lindybeige

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=Riller;44616682]The big question is, why do weebs and the Japanese romanticize and talk up the katana like mad, when they have the fuckin' kanabo already.

[IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Samurai_Tokugawa_Era.jpg[/IMG]

The kanabo doesn't need no legends to be awesome, it's a fuckin' greatmace![/QUOTE]

greatmace? its more like a great baseball bat, no wonder the japanese love baseball

[11meister]

[QUOTE=Riller;44616942][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Shield_pistol.jpg[/IMG]

This is a shield with a built-in matchlock pistol. Pack the thread up, boys, we're done. Coolest weapon found, our quest is at it's end.[/QUOTE]

[img_thumb]http://static.zenimax.com/bethblog/oldcontent/peteandthefatman.jpg[/img_thumb]

[kaine123]

[video=youtube;t-EodSILCi0]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t-EodSILCi0[/video]

A good video summing up why I like the Gladius so much.

[Richard Longflop]

*cough*

[t]http://blog.modernmechanix.com/mags/ModernMechanix/12-1933/cop_shield.jpg[/t]

[11meister]

*ahem*

[img_thumb]http://information2share.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/novel-war-tank-resembles-a-rolling-ball.jpg[/img_thumb]

[asteroidrules]

Sort of reminds me of these two
[t]http://img4.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20090311015420/starwars/images/9/91/Tank_droid_TCW.jpg[/t]
[img]http://img2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130828155934/starwars/images/d/dc/Destroyer_droid_sequence.png[/img]

[11meister]

[QUOTE=asteroidrules;44618611]Sort of reminds me of these two
[/QUOTE]

Random annecdote, as a child I once wrote a story for school about a droidika that had been reprogrammed to be a friendly bartender.

I know we're all sharing our favourite peices of sharp pointy steel, but my FAL passion is unabated, and this video makes me strangley moist.

[video=youtube;qnTTkSGK3XE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnTTkSGK3XE[/video]

Besides, its technically a long slightly less pointy bit of steel isn't it?

[MAC21500]

[QUOTE=11meister;44618538]*ahem*

[img_thumb]http://information2share.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/novel-war-tank-resembles-a-rolling-ball.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

More like this thing from Justice League when the Nazis attacked:
[img]http://ourworlds.topcities.com/blackhawk/media/savagetime-05.jpg[/img]

Also, FN FAL, still a pointy bit of steel:
[img]http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f247/SmartDrug/IMG_20110927_183712.jpg[/img]

[Skarphedinn]

[QUOTE=Riller;44616942][IMG]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/0/07/Shield_pistol.jpg[/IMG]

This is a shield with a built-in matchlock pistol. Pack the thread up, boys, we're done. Coolest weapon found, our quest is at it's end.[/QUOTE]

Step it up.

[img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/81/Laternenschild_01.jpg[/img]

[Ashes]

The bayonet on that Fal looks like it would snap in half if you stabbed an orange and attempted to pull it out

[Sableye]

[QUOTE=11meister;44618538]*ahem*

[img_thumb]http://information2share.files.wordpress.com/2011/06/novel-war-tank-resembles-a-rolling-ball.jpg[/img_thumb][/QUOTE]

2 problems i think they didn't consider

1) that thing is cramped as fuck and who's driving
2) engines (especially early ones) are ridiculously hot
i guess another problem is how does that roll out of craters that are larger than it

[editline]22nd April 2014[/editline]

i mean the mark I was known for being cramped, hot, and filled with noxous fumes, and that was a rather large roomy tank

[milkandcooki]

[QUOTE=TAU!;44616388]Look at this lovely pair of Chinese Dao swords!

[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/37834b6701361658c5918fc086acd285/tumblr_n48uunmsVO1rrjmgoo1_1280.jpg[/img]
[img]http://24.media.tumblr.com/be91f0b9b837ae888ed869cdb1e77da1/tumblr_n48uunmsVO1rrjmgoo4_1280.jpg[/img]
[img]http://37.media.tumblr.com/78ba97ae47c159511372fd0be6cb2520/tumblr_n48uunmsVO1rrjmgoo6_1280.jpg[/img][/QUOTE]

[img]http://audreymgonzalez.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/13Stance.jpg[/img]

oh, that's why those are familiar. zuko used them in avatar the last airbender.

[Riller]

[QUOTE=Sableye;44620034]2 problems i think they didn't consider

1) that thing is cramped as fuck and who's driving
2) engines (especially early ones) are ridiculously hot
i guess another problem is how does that roll out of craters that are larger than it

[editline]22nd April 2014[/editline]

i mean the mark I was known for being cramped, hot, and filled with noxous fumes, and that was a rather large roomy tank[/QUOTE]

Good thing no one ever attempted to build anything like tha-...

[IMG]http://ost-front.ru/wp-content/uploads/2012/07/02.jpg[/IMG]

Oh.

[editline]23rd April 2014[/editline]

It does, however, remind me of this quite rad mobile pillbox that I saw a while ago. It had one big wheel with spikes on the side, and a smaller one on the other side, and it was towed. You'd pull it into position, flip it onto it's big wheel, and BAM, you have a teeny little bunker that can rotate to cover more ground.

[Zillamaster55]

Now, okay, people like Riller or hwatever try and think this up.

Could a P-90 styled firearm, chambered in, say, 10mm Auto, with the top-loading magazine with 45 rounds. Would that be ideal for a Secret Service/CIA/SWAT format, or is it too much/too little.

[MAC21500]

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;44620649]Now, okay, people like Riller or hwatever try and think this up.

Could a P-90 styled firearm, chambered in, say, 10mm Auto, with the top-loading magazine with 45 rounds. Would that be ideal for a Secret Service/CIA/SWAT format, or is it too much/too little.[/QUOTE]

Already did it with a 12Ga shotgun:
[url]http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/2013/06/25/monolith-arms-p-12-p-90-like-shotgun/[/url]
[img]http://www.thefirearmblog.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/MonolithArmsP-122-1-660x494.jpg[/img]

[rebel1324]

I have anti-material gun fetish
[img]http://www.steyr-aug.com/theacr.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.militaryfactory.com/smallarms/imgs/denel-ntw20.jpg[/img]
[img]http://loadoutroom.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/Anti-Material-rifle-syria-660x495.jpg[/img]
[img]http://www.imfdb.org/images/9/9e/Solothurn.jpg[/img]
[img]http://home.indy.net/~ama/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderpictures/lahtionm3tripod.jpg[/img]

[Mastahamma]

[QUOTE=rebel1324;44620826]I have anti-material gun fetish[/QUOTE]
if we're gonna be gun nerds, then might as well

it's "Anti-Materi[b]el[/b]", not "Anti-Material", as "Materiel" is french for military tech or something

[ignhelper]

Chechen special forces. Can't tell if really spec ops or tactical airsoft dudes
[IMG]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=217635&d=1398121328[/IMG]
[IMG]http://www.militaryphotos.net/forums/attachment.php?attachmentid=217634&d=1398121296[/IMG]

[Riller]

[QUOTE=rebel1324;44620826]I have anti-material gun fetish[/QUOTE]

Interesting... Tell me about your father?

[ImpSnob]

AUGs turn me on

[IMG]http://www.steyr-mannlicher.com/typo3temp/pics/02b5332c6f.jpg[/IMG]