ITT: aesthetic historical weapons

>>3185298
Magyar? Turko-Mongol saber?

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>>3185298
I quite like the Japanese sword from the Russo Japanese war, bit of a saber and katana mix.

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>>3185298

1. "AESTHETIC" IS A NOUN, NOT AN ADJECTIVE.

2. "AESTHETIC" IS SYNONYMOUS WITH "STYLE"; "AESTHETIC" IS NOT SYNONYMOUS WITH "BEAUTIFUL".

3. ATTACHED TO THIS POST: AN IMAGE OF THE BEST PISTOL EVER CREATED.

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>>3185353
Close, Danube Bulgar saber from the 9th century. Fuckloads of weapons found in Bulgaria recently there was an exposition called "7000 years of warfare in Bulgaria" anything from stone weapons to German STG44s. I can post picture of the bladed weapons part of the exposition.

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>>3185373
>Luger
>best pistol ever
Not even in terms of aesthetics.

>>3185384
That's very ugly.

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>>3185389
You're very ugly you tasteless nerd

>>3185357
There is a really good paper on its use and development.
It's like "forsaken kendo, katate gunto jutsu" iirc.

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>>3185347
This is stupid. Why did no one tell the man who made this that his idea was stupid?

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>>3185298
Sword of Goujian.

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>>3185298
Chinese ring pommel sword, modern replica .
One of the ancestors of East Asian swords.

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>>3185483
Antique royal sword of Qianlong Emperor.

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>>3185478
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>>3185504
swords are lame. spears are cool

>>3185349
>>3185347
autism

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>>3185534

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>>3185536

>>3185534
The middle one is a long ass Viking sword

>>3185474
I don't think either of those was intended to be used, ever.

>>3185342
>german pistol

royal danish archive. bruh.

>>3185663
>Tyskland

It pays having a passing acquaintance with languages other than English, anon

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>>3185511
that's a polearm, not a spear, dude

also, here's my very own colt navy repro, best looking SA revolver in my opinion

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Yatagan bayonets are aesthetic as fuck

>>3185663
>museums don't have things from other countries

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>>3185529
t. neurotypical

>>3185383
Yes absolutely

>>3185483
Looks like a bad replica. It tapers near the guard and the handle wrapping is probably entirely fictional. The guard and the scabbard belongs to a Jian and I haven't seen a pommel like that until at least the Sui dynasty.

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>>3185768
Here is an actual Han Dao.

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>>3185768
Already did check

>>3185537
>>3185536
>>3185534

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>>3185539
Long recoil is so fucking sexy!

>>3185372
I love Shermans because they remind me of Metal Slug

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>>3185774

>>3185773
Why did bulgars transition from sabres to migration era swords so early on? The Byzantines and the Turks had no problem using sabres till at least the 13th century.

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>>3185793
Actually the migration era swords were likely as payment for passage as there are no records Bulgars ever used them. There are even Varangian and true Viking swords found in Bulgaria. Basically what is known the evolution was like this

Sabres - VIIth to XIth Centuries
Arming swords XIth to XIIIth Century
Longswords/Hand and a half swords from mid XIVth century.

>>3185828
That makes sense. Know any books or video introduction to Bulgarian history?

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>>3185841
About the weapons the majority of the books are in Bulgarian. There are general history books in English especially the relations between Bulgaria and Byzantium, or the war and defeat of the Latin empire. Just google books about medieval Bulgaria

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>>3185768
Maybe this one is a bit better.

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>>3185768
>>3185770
Here is another Han antique from Hangzhou museum.

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Inca halberd

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>>3185298
Abacus Sword.
Probably Qing dynasty antique.

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>>3186089
Abacus....

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>>3186067
Aghh, it looks very well made but it still suffers from the same mistake.

The problem is that Chinese blacksmiths are trying to make a STEEL Han Dao look decorative, when they were manufactuared by the hundreds of thousands for common soldiers. Bronze Han doss are very decorative and beautiful though.

The blacksmiths are aiming too close to later period swords such as this pic. It also looks too much like Korean/Japanese Ring swords with heavy studded pommels and thick hand guard.

Later Chinese daos had crossguards with thin but intricate flower ring pommels.

>>3186072

That one looks much better. It's simple and practical. Efficient.

>>3186094
Confucian gone wrong

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jineta sword (moorish sword)

>>3185478
>no crossguard

Enjoy your severed hand.

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>>3185298

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one of the most underrated swords imo
probably because it is ottoman

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>>3186409
Not all swords need a cross guard, it depends on the intended use for the sword. Viking swords had a mininal cross guard. OPs picture is also an example it was meant as a sidearm for horse arches and as such doesn't really need a cross guard.

>>3185793
Several reasons actually
First by the Xth century Bulgars still retained some of their original identity meaning their army was predominally horse based with the Slavs living in the empire providing the infantry. When the country got Christianized and the language stardartised and written in its own new alphabeth the population mixed up this the Bulgars became the Bulgarians and the army was slowly restructured until it was a mix between Western and Byzantine style equipment, hence the saber slowly gave way to swords of western design, however there are accounts of Bulgarian warriors from the 13th century who still used the traditional saber. That said the sword was ALWAYS a siderm for the Bulgars. First it was a sidearm of the horse archers then it became a sidearm of the spearmen.

>>3186437
How do you hold it?

>>3186437
Because it's not really a sword it's a sword shaped cleaver

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Uh, planes and tanks aren't really "weapons."

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>>3185298

>>3185568
Hi skall

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>>3185511
pic related dates to 11th to 15th century switzerland. called by the people "Rossschinder", steed flayer. And indeed it is said in old manuscripts, that the swiss men armed with these weapons (don't know the proper english word, Hellebarden in german) would cut right through the armor of the enemy soldiers and slaughtered them like pigs, so to speak. if you're interested, look up Schlacht bei Morgarten, i think it was this battle that was written about.

>>3186678
The peasant slayer

>>3185539
Are there schematics of this available online?

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>>3186453
More like elongated Falcata/kopis (both have related design), which is seen in other areas where Greeks lived for time, including India.

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>>3187347
Aforementioned Indian weapon

>>3185347
This is brilliant.

>>3185548
I'm not a gun enthusiast, I don't even own a gun but this one looks like fucking sex in gun form.

>>3186094
is this to count how many you have killed in battle?

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>>3187334
Closest I could find.

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>>3185298
WW2 Chinese Da Dao.
Crude but sturdy and useful.

>>3185483
is this essentially a jian? or an ancestor of the popular known jian

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Macuahuitl (Muh-Kwah-Weet)

Mesoamerican broadsword developed and used by the Aztecs. It was preceded by the shorter Toltec version of the weapon. A strong wooden club in the shape of a paddle was lined with razor sharp obsidian blades. The blades were described by conquistadors as sharp enough to "shave with".

Bernal Diaz describes an account where a single downward cut from one of these swords nearly beheaded a horse, only the flesh on the horses lower neck remained intact. In another instance a horse was disimboweled by a single slash, and died instantly. They came in one handed variants which had a wrist strap and were often used with a shield, and two handed variants as long as a european longsword.

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There's just something really comfy about it.

>>3188006
looks like a 1950s kitchen appliance
comfy indeed

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I want to fuck a wheellock

>>3189245
Wouldn't the barrel of the gun get blocked up with blood and guts?

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Some pretty wheel lock pistols

>>3189314
uh? you first use the pistols at close range and then the pointy stick at even closer range.

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José de San Martín's curved saber

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>>3185365
>Kleenex box with an 88 mounted on top
>Aesthetic

>>3188080
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6EyCTHgSFME

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Steyr-Hahn M1912, owned by an anonymous poster on /k/.

>>3189549
I hope no one is autistic enough to be annoyed at this. He just changed the grips, not the gun. It could be worse, like the jewger.
>>3189389
I'm aware, but when you stab someone those pistols are going to be going where the knife goes.

>>3185373
>1. "AESTHETIC" IS A NOUN, NOT AN ADJECTIVE.

Wrong.

http://www.dictionary.com/browse/aesthetic?s=t

>>3187970
That's not what they actually looked like. I'm pretty sure there is only one that survived

>>3185373
It's a noun and an adjective. That's not uncommon in English

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The Obrez of course

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Flyssa sword

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>>3190312
Those are indeed aesthetically pleasing

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Am I kawaîî ? Desu~

>>3185384
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>>3185548
>>3187803
>>3188006
>>3190240
>historical
I want /k/ to leave.

>>3189688
first you shoot, then you stab. if you have the time to recharge that guns, you have the time to clean them.

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Tang period Dao are Kawaii.

>>3191421

t. Proto-katana

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Something about the horribly bulky and generally shit jap firearms really endears them
Kind of like a disabled pet, I guess

>>3191307
>historical weapons thread
>gets mad when historical weapons are posted

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>>3191307
All of those guns are older than 25 years you dumb gook.

>>3186448
>Not all swords need a cross guard

dodging this hard. how much do you chink shills get paid? you could've just said that owner of that sword wouldnt even swing it in battle other than for ordering etc. because muh chink commanders stay behind lines.

>>3190240
[wrist pain intensifies]

>>3191296
Wtf did this shoot?

I'm 100% a Eurofag, but holy shit, this is the most aesthetic sword shape ever built.

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>>3194315
Why the fuck did it not post

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>>3191421
Lolforgot to post this one.

Tibetan weapons are generally horrible looking IMO, but this Tibetan Dao - Dam, in their language- is pretty fucking neat.

>>3185478
>>3186415
Neat, is this the one from red cliff movie https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Lyk8t3tN6U

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this whole loadout is aesthetic

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>>3194180
This is literally the most influential sword in European history, notice something? Or perhaps you would also like to tell me that the swords of the Danes which are direct descendants of this one were also shit because they have very little in terms of crossguard. Or maybe because you never blocked with a sword when you had a shield that was 1.3 meters long

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>>3185360

>Colt Walker

My nigga

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>>3195385
Nothing like a black powder hand cannon.

>>3185483
op said historical

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>>3195486

LeMat is my personal favorite because 9 rounds+shotgun

>>3195505

Fixed carry handle ARs are the most a e s t h e t i c of assault rifles Tbh

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>tfw you will never be a Viking protecting the Byzantine emperor

>>3185384
Hey, It's Han Solo!

>>3195505
is that a famas?

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>>3185298

I unironically fantasize about protecting a pregnant Anne Frank from the insidious claws of Nazi tyranny with one of these beauties.

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>>3194311
Love

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>>3194180
>Not all swords need a cross guard
But it is true, you fucking ignorant gweilo. How much do you get paid to shitpost?

Pic here is your precious roman sword, does it look like a sword has crossguard that you fond so much? Moron.

>>3194420
Similar, but weapons in Red Cliff movie are based on Han dynasty weapons which basically remain similar styles as Eastern Zhou dynasty(same period as sword of Goujian)

Sword of Goujian is a real 2700 year-old antique.
https://youtu.be/M6wcFzBTa7Q
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sword_of_Goujian

>>3196210
>+10 against muslims and non-christians!
Damn some gun designers were strange...