Is there a more elegant, efficient and beautiful instrument of death?
Katana
Zachary Ross
Anthony Flores
Yes.
Joshua Martinez
But we forgot where we put it.
Jacob Morgan
muh dik
Kevin Hughes
/thread
Anthony Rodriguez
Gross
Easton Long
Messer
Jayden Morris
>meme weapon barely ever used outside video games
Hudson Ramirez
It's not even the most elegant, efficient, or beautiful bladed weapon from Japan.
Andrew Bell
>Falling for the sai meme
Samuel Stewart
If you even know what a sai is you've already fallen for multiple memes.
Camden Brown
Is it the farming tool?
Kevin Allen
In order:
sword
machine gun
personal prefernce
Jace Scott
Eh it saw good use in the Iberic peninsula to protect battlefield assets (drums, flags and officers) and in general as a bodyguard weapon.
Charles Perry
Katana, arming sword, bastards sword
The swords used by royalty to smite down peasants get me hard
Aiden Myers
EZ
Wyatt Sullivan
Brandon Green
Personally I've always found artillery, machine-guns and other such systems quite elegant.
Artillery because it represents the scientific nature of war and the sheer accumulated knowledge of man being put to a single purpose: destruction. Machine-guns because I love gifs of their internals in motion. Same as any other mechanically complex device, it displays the ingenuity of man to solve a simple problem in a reliably efficient way.
Joshua Jenkins
Nothing is more beautiful than a nuke.
Chase Evans
Is that the Soul Scratch?
Ryder Rivera
>no (you)s
I'll bite. Fucking THIS.
Josiah Collins
Oakeshott Type XVIII Longswords are objectively superior.
>better balance
>longer and more reach
>better handguard
>better steel and quality
It was used by German, Italian, and Portuguese soldiers/mercenaries.
based and redpilled
Aiden Fisher
Why is personal preference third?
Carson Kelly
Checkmate, OP.
Matthew Parker
Sideswords, and many other swords as well
Ayden Anderson
yatagan swords are aesthetic as fuck
Joshua Cruz
disgusting
Joseph Walker
Zulfiqar
Dylan Lopez
how many cocks were you choking on when you wrote this?
Juan Morgan
The only legitimate choice.
Daniel Myers
literally anything but the OP image
Luke Young
Japan has more weapon than what the ninja tutrtles used.
Julian Bailey
Nolan Cooper
^guaranteed to shoot down Japanese A6N "Zero"s if you don't limpwrist it
James Harris
Yes, and the Portuguese used it to btfo samurai.
Brayden Morales
Pic related, the Indian tulwar. It came in various degrees of blade curvature, and was both well crafted and made from excellent raw materials. Indian steel was one of the best in the world at the time. But the katana is based as well, they just didn't have as high quality raw materials to work with as mainland Europe and asia.
Also based and redpilled
Justin Sanchez
It's also good for cutting spear shafts.
Eli Cox
OP pls
Nolan Evans
Man i bet that thing jammed like a mother fucker though
Julian Long
delete this
Ryan Reed
Stop posting fake news, user.
Gavin Thomas
A bit of a myth. the quality of the iron source does not really effect the quality of the blade provided your using advanced methods of forging like existed in Europe and Asia at the time.
the steel Japan produced was of high quality, the difference from European swords, at least the good European swords, was that the Japanese used differencial hardening while the Europeans used through hardening, the latter produces a very very hard edge but tends to be less flexible, though on the plus side such blades can be bent back into shape. Through harden blades tend to flex instead, they are harder to damage but as a penalty they do not hold an edge as well, which is not a problem if you take care to keep the blade sharpened.
Ryan Roberts
Looks like ww2 officer's weapon.
Christian Gutierrez
Can't beat katanas in weight/handling/sharpness cause of the thin blades with high carbon content. Makes em lose edge fast and easily bend from force though. If you're up against an unarmored or partially armored opponent it's a solid choice.
Plus some of the weeb aesthetic era swords are pretty fuckin dank-looking too.
Is the right answer for efficiency though, if you have reach then nothing else really matters.
Ryan Watson
swords may be elegant, but firearms are downright erotic
Jacob Phillips
Thats from the war museum in Bayeux!
Matthew Perry
Plasma rifle in the 40w range
Caleb Campbell
Yes
Owen Baker
Levi Lewis
Too bad they never invented toilets lmao rekt
Jeremiah Clark
Anthony White
*teleports behind you*
*snaps your katana in half*
heh, nothing personnel kiddo
Jordan Jones
idk on how many were you when you posted this
Carter Anderson
>katana
>thin
Get a load of this guy
Katanas are one of the heaviest swords for its size to ever exist.
Justin Diaz
youtube.com
Get fucked weeb.
Dominic Phillips
This or the Colt SAA
Jackson Hernandez
What was the difference between these swords?
Brandon Lopez
They are both modern reproductions forged by a western smith. the katana is differentally hardened and the western sword (it doesn't look long enough to be a long sword) is through hardened.
Deferentially hardened blades have a harder surface, and hold an edge very well but are less flexible and more prone to damage.
that said the test is pretty stupid, the one sword is much thicker than they other, and the cross section of the katana is clearly of the more modern variety rather than some of the older, more durable cross sections. the guy doesnt even cut right.
that isn't to say that a through hardened blade will not survive more abuse all other things being equal-it will-just that the test was a TV stunt and not really representative of historical swords.
Robert Wood
whats niku?
Charles Morales
"meat" in other words thickness.
Gabriel Allen
thickness =/= weight
Japanese swords tends to be the same weight as medieval arming swords and got lighter and lighter as time went on, up to the same weight as european military sabres.
Earlier swords tended to be fairly thinner and longer as a result than edo era swords.
James Gomez
you are literal fake news, the katana literally changes to a straight double bladed sword as it struck
Angel Thomas
It's a feature you mong
William Perry
Ryder Gonzalez
the first is real, the second exists only in weebs minds. (the second is edited, they hit the western blade with another western blade)
Nathaniel Sanchez
>katana literally changes to a straight double bladed sword
Uhm... whats wrong with that? Are you trans-phobic? Swords have rights too!
John Clark
the Japanese sword lightness varied on the period. At some point they were making relatively thin, long blades but then the style changed.
I wouldn't describe them as light, but they are not necessarily clunky or tip heavy compared to western swords
Ryan Lopez
the one that can kill the person trying to kill you is the best friend you will ever have
Josiah Morales
But have you tried the ultimate weapon yet?
Aaron Turner
Yes OP, you forgot this
Adam Perez
John Jones
>I wouldn't describe them as light
Their weight is usually understood to be in the 900-1400g range, that's basically arming sword range.
At worst, they are as heavy as a water bottle and infinitely better balanced (not hard of course), that's fairly light to me.
Nicholas Morris
That's on me, Anons, sorry, my bad. Here ya go!
Jaxon Collins
Considered he ended up on it, I'd daresay he did some stuff wrong at least strategically.
Angel Reed
NICE.
Ooo, that's pretty.
Daniel Nelson
Do you hold swords regularly? a saber might be lighter than a katana, but it can feel much heavier because of the balance. A poorly balanced katana can feel like your holding a brick on the end of a stick, a well balanced one can feel like an extension of the hand, that isnt just true of katana but any sword really. 1400g can feel extremely heavy depending on a sword's balance.
Justin Rodriguez
Me on the left
Noah Rodriguez
Yeah I know about that. The initial point was that japanese swords were crazy heavy in absolute terms, which is just plain untrue, that's all.
Japanese swords are roughly the same size and weight as medieval european arming swords, none particularly stands out compare to the other in those department anyway.