Wacky Weapons

How about some wacky guns?

Norinco Model 77B - 9x19mm
Semi-Auto Pistol

The Chinese produced a service pistol that you can charge and fire with one hand. The user operates the slide by pulling the front of the trigger guard back (essentially a second trigger) to chamber round and then can switch to the actual trigger to fire. I'd imagine training on this pistol would cause all sorts of training scars (pulling the wrong trigger, for example). According to the article, it was a hefty pull anyway.

Ares FMG - 9x19mm
Submachine Gun

Work in a rough neighborhood? Concealed handgun not cutting it? How about a submachine gun that looks like a clunky clock radio? The Ares FMG is your ticket. Designed for low profile work, this collapsible 9mm blaster was designed by Eugene Stoner, the same guy that came up with the M-16. Marketed as a "businessman's personal defense weapon," it proved to be awkward and unreliable (like many 9mm SMGs of the '80s).

Tula ATS-DT Dual Medium - 5.45x39mm
Aquatic Assault Rifle

Everybody has problems with suicide bomber dolphins. Why else would the Russians design an assault rifle specifically to combat them?

 

Jackie Chan's improvised "meteor hammer" (basically a horshoe tied to a rope) is quite unusual!



Actually, anything in a Jackie Chan movie is unusual.

 

GenuineG,

The Morning Star looks like a weapon that you just swung and hoped you hit something.

The Bardiche looks like something that was a finisher for chopping people's heads or other body parts off when they were already down.

The man catcher is the coolest of the 3, spring them in so they can't get out and take them down then use the Bardiche.

I think this maybe my first ever "Tilted Weapons" post.

 

The Morning Star wasn't meant to be accurate, it was made to smash the shield your opponent's trying to block with. And as a bonus it stuns the other guy with the force of the impact. But what is really neat is that the other guy presents a open target when he goes for the block. Talk about a win/win scenario. LOL

 

Ummm...no.

With practice, a morningstar (aka articulated mace) can be quite accurate, and the flexibility of the chain allows for a large array of oblique and off-angle attacks. Feints and changes of direction are -blistering- fast in the right hands, although this requires considerable strength and flexibility of hand, wrist, forearm, and elbow.

As for targets, the morningstar's target is simple- armor. It was designed for, and is exceptionally good at, crushing/smashing plate armor and whatever's underneath it. The mass graves associated with Towton Moor have a number of examples of this type of injury present, and the damage from a morningstar or mace blow is nothing short of catastrophic. A blow to the body will smash or seperate ribs and puncture or crush internal organs, a solid headshot will simply take a skull apart, helmet or no. A blow to the extremeties is easily capable of reducing the afflicted limb to pulp, and analagous modern industrial injuries demonstrate a high potential for crush amputation. Even heavy plate armor was of little use when a 3-5lb iron ball studded with spikes crashed into it, propelled by the arm of a grown man who'd spent his whole life doing manual labour (or the equivalent of physical exercise).

In the european medieval world, there was no such thing as a dedicated anti-shield weapon, although some weapons did have ancillary parts or specialised techniques designed to reduce a shield's effectiveness, typically by hooking and pulling in order to yank the target off balance. The English Billhook was reputed to be excellent for this. But the idea of designing a weapon solely to engage the shield, instead of killing the man behind it, is silly.

 

I didn't know any of that. thanks for the correction Dunedan.

 

When she was lactating, my wife could hit me from across the room with great accuracy.

 

really? this is some warhammer 40k shit right here

 

That's actually for clearing land mines. The chains thrash the ground, setting them off. Keeps the explosions far enough away.

 

Anti-tank landmines blow a force cone straight up via shaped charge. Anti-personnel mines are basically hand grenades.

Auto-flails such as the one mounted on the front of that tank are designed to detonate or displace anti-personnel and anti-tank mines.

A quicker way of clearing a path through a minefield involves launching a rope of plastic explosives. See: M58 MICLIC: MIne CLearing LIne Charge.

/Twelve Bravo'd!

 

@plan9, do they still call that detacord?

 

Nah, det cord is basically PETN in a plastic tube and burns at ~4 miles a second, used for chained stuff and breaching widgets. By itself it doesn't have enough Oomph! to do the job of knocking naughty stuff outta the way of overloaded infantrymen.

The MICLIC rocket shoots a chunky rope made up of marshmellow-looking bricks of C4 explosive. I'm not a mech guy so I never used one, but in 2003 my platoon repurposed the explosive for light fighter purposes. Free bang is free bang, after all.

 

so... the chunky ropes are coming before the explosion? sex ed must've taught me backwards