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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 6, 2017 6:27:32 GMT
....which would you say is the most beautiful?
Personally, I'm going with the brown bess musket.
How about you? Which historical weapon do you think was the most beautiful?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2017 9:00:09 GMT
Ak47 Or m1 carbine
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Post by tarathian123 on Feb 6, 2017 11:16:55 GMT
What were the weapons used in this punishment torture ?? According to apocryphal lore [and your quoted Wiki link], "lingchi began when the torturer, wield[ed] an extremely sharp knife". |
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Post by tarathian123 on Feb 6, 2017 12:26:39 GMT
Being ex-RAF and if aircraft are considered by the OP as weapons, then for me it has to be the Spitfire.
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Post by Pangolin on Feb 7, 2017 15:34:27 GMT
- European swords of High and Late Medieval times
- Colt Single Action Army
- Mauser C96
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Feb 7, 2017 17:35:31 GMT
That Colt is indeed very nice looking...
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Post by Deleted on Feb 8, 2017 2:28:52 GMT
Have always loved Damascus steel blades, beauty and quality- the Japanese swords are by and large the sharpest but only the elite Samurai carried the best blades which sometimes took month's to complete. The Browning Colt .45 automatic is thee classic modern weapon design that is beautiful in it's efficiency and design. The P-51 is still my favorite propeller aircraft design and the F/A-18 Hornet is beautiful to my eyes also. Of all the tanks, the Tiger Tank has a boldness that is aggressively appealing....grrrrr   Noticing how when a weapon system reaches it's peak of development it takes on an elegance of style- along with it. Pick almost any category like catapults...the Trebuchet- Awesome and imposing. |
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Post by stickman38 on Feb 22, 2017 6:29:06 GMT
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Post by tarathian123 on Mar 2, 2017 1:06:19 GMT
A really well-fashioned longbow has to take its place in the list. It was certainly deadly in the hands of an expert archer, as the French armies found on the fields of Crécy and Agincourt. Training in its use became compulsory in mediaeval England.
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Post by Spock on Mar 2, 2017 6:27:29 GMT
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Post by jammer81386 on Mar 2, 2017 17:09:09 GMT
....which would you say is the most beautiful?
Personally, I'm going with the brown bess musket.
How about you? Which historical weapon do you think was the most beautiful? My vote goes to the rapier. Sleek, slender, and elegant.  |
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Post by airborne3502 on Mar 4, 2017 2:51:10 GMT
The M60 Machine Gun.  |
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Post by The Herald Erjen on Mar 5, 2017 4:56:57 GMT
 Maybe I'm weird, but I thought the M3 Lee was beautiful, even if it wasn't very good. It took a 7-man crew, and the Russian tank crews who used this model called it the coffin for seven brothers. |
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Post by vegalyra on Mar 9, 2017 22:46:11 GMT
I've always thought the Queen Elizabeth super dreadnoughts were quite beautiful. Pre-modernization that is.  |
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Post by Matthew the Swordsman on Mar 10, 2017 5:10:17 GMT
Replying to my own thread, but I also feel that the old cannons were beautiful in their own way. Here is one I photographed recently:  |
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Post by Deleted on Mar 10, 2017 13:24:03 GMT
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Post by tarathian123 on Mar 10, 2017 16:14:20 GMT
Now you're talking. Nice one. [Ex-RAF :-)]
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Post by koskiewicz on Mar 19, 2017 20:05:49 GMT
pistol - the Auto Mag
rifle - the M16A1 that I used while in the military service
tank - the M3 Lee/Grant used by Humphrey Bogart in the film Sahara
aircraft - the B17 flying fortress
Now for a couple of real turkeys"
handgun bayonets from 1915 (Great Britain)
The Le Mat Grapeshot revolver
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