Medieval-armour

A samurai sword is a sword of the type commonly carried by samurai, Japanese warriors who thrived through the 1800s, when Japan was opened to trade with the West and the Japanese system of government radically changed, rendering the samurai tradition obsolete. The sword which is classically associated with samurai is a katana, a curved long-sword which was included in the war gear of most samurai. Possession of a katana was so critical that many samurai regarded their swords as extensions of their souls, and it is not surprising that the katana is viewed as the quintessential samurai swords.

The katana is so famous that some people use the term generically to refer to all Japanese swords. In fact, a Japanese sword should more properly be known as a nihonto, as there are a range of styles and classes of sword produced in Japan. Traditional swordsmithing is still very much alive in Japan, for people who are interested in seeing and studying the techniques used to produce swords in the samurai era.

In addition to the katana, which evolved from several older weapons, most samurai also carried a wakizashi, a short sword. This sidearm was also known as the "honor blade," and samurai rarely surrendered their honor blades.
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Infantry tactics at the time of the Civil War were based on the use of the smoothbore musket, a civil war weapons of limited range and accuracy. Firing lines that were much more than a hundred yards apart could not inflict very much damage on each other, and so troops which were to make an attack would be massed together, elbow to elbow, and would make a run for it; if there were enough of them, and they ran fast enough, the defensive line could not hurt them seriously, and when they got to close quarters the advantage of numbers and the use of the bayonet would settle things. But the Civil War musket was rifled, which made an enormous difference. It was still a muzzle-loader, but it had much more accuracy and a far longer range than the old smoothbore, and it completely changed the conditions under which soldiers fought. An advancing line could be brought under killing fire at a distance of half a mile, now, and the massed charge of Napoleonic tradition was miserably out of date. When a defensive line occupied field entrenchments-which the soldiers learned to dig fairly early in the game-a direct frontal assault became almost impossible. The hideous casualty lists of Civil War battles owed much of their size to the fact that soldiers were fighting with rifles but were using tactics suited to smoothbores. It took the generals a long time to learn that a new approach was needed.
Much the same development was taking place in the artillery, although the full effect was not yet evident. The Civil War cannon, almost without exception, was a muzzle-loader, but the rifled gun was coming into service. It could reach farther and hit harder than the smoothbore, and for counterbattery fire it was highly effective-a rifled battery could hit a battery of smoothbores without being hit in return, and the new 3-inch iron rifles, firing a 10-pound conical shot, had a flat trajectory and immense Penetrating power. But the old smoothbore-a brass gun of 4.62-inch caliber, firing a 12-pound spherical shot-remained popular to the end of the war; in the wooded, hilly country where so many Civil War battles were fought, its range of slightly less than a mile was about all that was needed, and for close-range work against infantry the smoothbore was better than the rifle. For such work the artillerist fired canisters tin can full of iron balls, with a propellant at one end and a wooden disk at the other-and the can disintegrated when the gun was fired, letting the iron balls be sprayed all over the landscape. In effect, the cannon became a huge sawed-off shotgun, and at ranges of 250 yards or less it was in the highest degree murderous.
This portion of the "Home of the American Civil War" website attempts to explain a little about the various weapons used in the Civil War and while you will find few images here, you will find a lot of good material on "the weapons of war".
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World War II Airsoft guns are for those who are avidly interested in World War II infantry units and some of the spectacular ground battles that took place during the course of the war.

Sellers of World War II guns have brought many of the best World War II small arms replicas that are available on the market. These guns are essentially for collectors. Some very rare finds can occasionally be made, as these guns tend to be out of production more often than not.

Since the 1950s, hundreds of thousands of replica small arms have been made in Japan and World War II models have always been popular, with a wide variety of guns available. Many of these models are fascinating in detail and authenticity. The quality, realism, and details of these models are unsurpassed. The best of these models are on display at war museums and used in World War II movie productions.

The second World War was truly a conflict of enormous scale that hopefully will never be seen again. This is why, 60 years later, it continues to grab the imagination of new generations. Now we can only read about the stories of survivors and see the movies that try to recreate the era. However, when you handle some of the fantastic replicas that are available, such as a Shoe MG42 or CMC Kar 98k, you feel a whole lot more life in the stories that you?ve read and the World War II movies that you?ve seen. Better still, having such excellent Airsoft replicas in a re-enactment event or World War II game will give a more authentic experience to someone trying to experience what that combat might have been like.
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Till day the world has seen many wars out of which the biggest has been the World War 2. It witnessed the use of maximum arms and ammunitions. Here we discuss the various World War 2 weapons which comprised of bombs, tanks, aircrafts and World War 2 guns. The world saw enormous destruction during the war. The World War 2 was the result of increasing greed for power and land. Almost all the countries of the world were spending their resources in fighting other countries. Most of these resources were spent in the production of the World War 2 weapons.
In order to attain supremacy all the countries produced the most destructive and technologically advanced weapons. The World War 2 weapons are still seen as some of the most destruction causing weapons in the history of the world. Researches were held in almost all the countries which resulted into newer and better weapons. World war2 weapons saw a major change in the guns that were being used now. The World War 2 guns were far better technologically from the earlier used guns. This shall b discussed later in the article.
The following list shows the world war weapons used by the armies of various countries which caused destruction
Armored vehicles
Grenades
Rocket launchers
Multiple rocket launchers
Infantry anti-tank weapons
Various tanks
Anti-aircraft artillery
Mortars
The World War 2 period saw the making of some of the most powerful guns also. The World War 2 guns form the basis of some of the most advanced guns used today by the soldiers. The machine guns used by the army of almost all the countries are also a descendent of the World War 2 guns. Automatic guns first came into existence during this time. Riffles, hand guns, automatic guns are all regarded as the World War 2 guns.
The following list shows the various guns used during the world war
Handguns
Bolt guns
Self propelling guns
Machine guns
Automatic and semi automatic riffles
Pistols
Sniper riffles

Defensive covering for the head, one of the most universal forms of armor. Armor Helmets are regularly thought of as military equipment.

In northern and western Europe, early helmets were of leather reinforced with bronze or iron straps and usually took the form of conical or hemispherical skullcaps. Gradually the amount of metal increased until entire helmets were fashioned of iron, still following the same form. About the year 1200 the helm, or heaume, emerged. It was a flat-topped cylinder that was put on over the skullcap just before an engagement; experience soon dictated rounded contours that would cause blows to glance off. At the same time, the skullcap developed into the basinet, with pieces added to protect the neck and with a movable visor for the face. By 1500 several highly sophisticated types of helmets were in use, employing hinges or pivots to permit the piece to be put on over the head and then fitted snugly around head and neck so that it could not be knocked off in combat.