tanks

tanks were invented to be armored from being hit by flying objects or other artillery. through out the years tanks have changed and have many different designs and they all have their good points and their bad points. the first armored tank was actually just a chariot with hardened leather as a roof and walls. the tanks that came after were made of metal such as steel or cast iron in ww2 their were many different tank designs but the Russians had the best design of all the tanks in my opinion because it had just the right amount of everything and was also the first one to have angled armor and it also had very large barrel for large shells, the Russian tanks also went to very fast speeds and had more power then needed to drive it through all of the terrains ww2 could have provided. tanks are still used today and are a very efficient way or protecting our soldiers and giving them transportation too. Today we even have tanks that are built just to take out mines and we also have some that are completely remote controlled. tanks will only get better in designs as the years go on and will become more and more electronic and more controlled. thanks for reading my post and here is a russian tank called the T-34 from ww2.

the electric chair

the electric chair is also a torture weapon. it was used to kill the victim by using lots of electricity and to have the electricity pass through the brain into the body and kill the victim as quick as possible but in some cases this wasn't true because the executioner sometimes would forget or not put enough water on the persons head and there head would simply burn and not actually kill the person or it would kill them but in a cruel way. the electric chair is a fairly simple design and was still used till recently when replaced by poison injections. the electric chair was upon the most common way to kill inmates on death row in prison besides hanging. this is a chair from a prison.

here is also a video explaning on how they used the electric chair.

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the rack

the rack was a weapon of torture used by many people and even religious groups like Christians to have people tell them things and if they didn't they would get stretched more and soon enough get dislocated bones and soon enough ripped in half. the rack was basically a table with ropes or chains tied to a spool that would be turned to wrap the rope or chains tighter and start to pull the victims limbs the spools would be turned with long dowels and some tables featured gears so that the spool would not unwind with no pressure was on the dowel. the rack was fear from everyone that had a chance to be the next victim and also some countries adapted the rack and improved the design by adding spikes on the plank so that when the person would be stretched the spikes would roll across the victims backs and sometime pierce the victims skin and this would make the victim be in more pain and maybe say something that the torturer would want to know, here is a normal rack and the second photo is a rack with spikes on it.

flamethrower

the thing that can ruin or destoy almost anything is fire. And when you put that into a hand held weapon you have an amazingly scary weapon in the enemies eyes. Flame throwers have been around since ww1 and have been extremly useful in wars either to burn down buildings or set fire to forests. flame throwers were most commonly used with the germans durring ww2 using flamable liquid under presure and relayed from a hose to a giant gun (does not fire bullets) that has a small flame ignited at the end so that when the contants under pressure are relised it would travel trought the hose into the gun and out the barel into the already ignited flame and be set on fire. the flaming liquid falls on were ever the person is aiming and starts to burn the object. this invention is very destructive and took alot of lives during the wars and also cause city's to be burnt to the ground. here is a picture of a flamethrower


and here it is in action.

crossbows.

crossbows have been around for many centuries and have had a lot of different designs. The crossbow was invented around 500 B.C in Greece. the basic design of a crossbow is that it is a bow mounted to a handle and is shot horizontally. The cross bow can produce much more power (trust) to propel the arrow because it is mounted and the user does not have to hold the weight like a regular bow, he can simple draw the string back and it is caulked and loaded ready to fire when pressing the trigger. the modern crossbows have pulleys on them to ease the draw weight. Many crossbows today have a fiberglass limb, fiberglass has great characteristics of flexibility and strength. In modern cross bow we switched from metal to fiberglass for those reasons and metal under constant stress will wear out and lose its utility after a while. there are tones of different designs but my favorite is the modern crossbows because it has the best of all the designs and will last a long time. this is a picture of the medieval crossbow

and here is a modern design with fiberglass limbs.

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bouncing betty (s-mine)

This is a mine invented by germans in ww2. The germans invented this mine to create maximum dammage. To do this they invented the mecanism to propell upwards and after a delay the mine whould get to about the waist height or higher the sudenly would explode and send mass amounts of shrapnel in to the enemie. This mine design killed many alied soldiers durring ww2. The mine is aproximitly 5 inches tall without the fuse, and about 4 inches in diamater. the way this mine was (triped) trigered is that there is a 3 prong presion sensor at the top of the fuse and if weight is put on them it will get triggered. To get the most use of this mine weapon is that the german army developed an attachment to put on the fuse thats whould be relayed to a trip wire so that it would be much more usefull and versatile. here is the design of the bouncing betty




this is how the allies would disarm the mines, at first they would probe with sticks or bayonets and try not to set off the mine then when found they would try to slip a pin( sewing pin) into the safety hole to stop the fuse from getting compressed and setting off after the safety was on they would unscrew fuse and the mine whould be unable to be set off. thanks for reading and keep coming back to read my blogs.

catapult

catapults are the most effective trowing weapon of the medieval times. Catapults were made from wood rope, and skin( animal). the most common and the best of designs (my opinion) is the trebuchet. It has a very long throwing arm with a long cord with animal skin shaped as a pouch, and a pivot point in the middle of it with a pivoting weight at the end. to use this you must put the object you are going to throw in the pouch then release the trip wire and done you have the object flying through the air at great speeds until it reaches your target. here is a video of a trebuchet made in England.



In my 2nd year of high school i had to build a model trebuchet in my construction class and we had a competition on who's can throw the hardest but after having started the build have way through the semester we did not have time to fire it but im sure my trebuchet would have won.

axes

Today's post is about axes and how they are used in history and today. Axes were most popular during the medieval times know as a weapon of defense, offense, and also used for public amusement. During the medieval times axes were made from hardened steel or iron. The axes were forged (made from raw steel and heated in the fire till red hot and then beaten into shape) by hand and then tempered again. Tempering is when heating the steel till it is none magnetic then quenching the steel in water, tempering makes the steel harder and less flexible. Tempering also allows the blade to be sharpened and keep its edge for a long time. The most common axe of the medieval times is the Celtic axe this axe only has one side that has a blade but it was still the most common shaped axe. Axes were used as a power weapon to chip or split or chop through things like doors, shields, trees...But some axes like the executioner axe was used for public be-headings, the reason this axe had two blades is because it increased its weight and also during that time their were many be-headings and the axes blades would often get very dull so for this the developed the doubled sided axe so that they wouldn't have to sharpen it as often.

explosives

Hey Today's post is for grenades.Their are many types of grenades and each one is used to do certain tasks. We have had grenades since ww1 and we use them for a bunch of things either to clear tunnels or a mine field in the war zone. The grenades used in the war was used to throw and explode either on impact or a time delay charge, grenades can cause a lot of damage for example in the war they were used to clear out rooms, trenches, or even sand bunkers.there are many different grenade of ww2 but there is only 2 types; fragmentation and overpressure. fragmentation was used for open field and overpressure was used for trenches and closed places and it had less shrapnel the the fragmentation grenade. Every country during the war had their own type of grenade; the USA:"pineapple" grenade, Germany: stick grenade, Great Britain: NO' grenades... If we did not have grenades in the war it would have made things much more difficult and could have change the outcome of the war in the trenches. Well anyways I'm glad for the people who like my posts and are following them thanks and click the follow button.

knives.

Knives are used all the time either when you are cooking or hunting game. Knifes can be made from many different materials including titanium, stainless steel, high carbon steel, and flint... We need knives for many tasks like what i said before cooking like chopping vegetables or cutting meat, we also use knives to use as a weapon. The knife is a very efficient and stealth-like weapon as it is small and you can hide it and knives can have many different blade styles for many applications for cutting or for shredding, or a combination of the two. Their is also double sided blades for piercing. Knives that have very high carbon are very sharp, because te higher the carbon the sharper you can get your knife, in the older days men used to shave with highly sharpened knives but today we adapted to the razor that has a really high carbon thin blade. In ww1 and in ww2 we have used knives to do everyday military tasks either to kill the enemy when out of bullets, to cut the wire fences or boat ropes, or even shave. The most popular knife during ww2 was the Ka-bar, the Ka-bar is very affective as it has a double side blade at the tip for piercing, it has a serrated edge for shredding or for cutting rope, and it has a flat sharp blade for cutting and slashing. The Ka-bar is also my favorite knife for those reasons and because it looks like a cool knife and it is a part of history. Thanks for reading my post and keep coming back to read the ones that come.

medieval sword making(well more modern)

Hey guys this is my 4th official post and this post is about the making or a medieval sword. I know what your saying "wow they didn't even have those machines in the old days" well I know that but its just the concept of it and it basically saves you time of watching a guy pound a piece of metal with annoying pinging sounds for a long time so this skips those steps but if you want to see how the do the shaping of the blade with a hammer then watch the second video(and yes this video doesn't have hammering by hand but it is the same thing, this video is just to show the shaping, hardening and sharpening of the blade).

Swords were among the most popular of the weapons in the period of the medieval ages and also one of the most affective. Swords were used to pierce body armor, and also slice and dice your enemy. Swords offer very good reasons to use it over other weapons of that time, for instance it has more blade surface for cutting, it has a long reach to hit your foes, and also you can make a sword very sharp and strong as it has the cutting power of a knife and the chopping like an axe if used right. This year I am planing on making a sword from and old metal stake. I don't have all the tools in the videos so I will be making it by hand like a blacksmith. My sword design is probably going to be a medieval sword like this one called the Excalibur(at the top of the post). When I'm done making my sword I will post pictures. Stay tuned for my progress on my sword thanks!

fighting( MMA)

We have had fighting for a long time and we still use it today either as a sport, to cause violence or to protect ourselves. There is many ways to use our fists as weapons. This movie is all about MMA(mixed martial arts) and it has every style of fighting we have today. This movie has scenes of a tournament that shows many different styles that show how each style use there fists and feet differently to cause pain to each other or to defend ourselves.This movie resembles the real life of the UFC( ultimate fighting championship). For example at 0:30-0:50 it shows how to use your feet to knock the guy out.also at 3:10-3:20, you can also see how people use submission to take out their opponent. In MMA you find styles that are too fancy and that doesn't work in this sport as this video shows a great example at 3:33-3:45, the guy is to busy jumping around and trying to look good and we finally get closer the other guy just knocks him out cold. My favorite sport is MMA because it takes all anger out and it is a great stress re-leaver. MMA also is the number 1 sport for contact because it is all fighting, not just standing up but you can take your opponent to the ground and beat them up or even choke them out till the tap out. To tap out is when you make your opponent give up by taping the mat or any other thing around them (opponent or themselves), this is called a submission, agreat example is in the clip at 4:55-5:10. MMA is becoming one of the biggest sports today as it is getting more popular as football players are switching over to MMA as it is more of a contact sport.

fighting with our body

Our hands, feet and other body parts were used as weapons since the beginning of time and are still used today. In this movie it shows how we use out hands and feet as weapons and also different styles of fighting, to either defend or attack, but our hands and feet were not our first weapon. our first weapon was our mind. Our mind is the first weapon as we use this to plan our attacks and also to invent other weapons and how we can defend or attack others. without our mind we would have none of the weapons today nor would we have the fighting styles and skills. In many martial arts such as karate you are trained to use your mind and know how to use it before using a real weapon. We see this in many movies such as karate kid, and never back down. this film just shows us a form of fighting with evolved from our mind.

weapons

My name is Brandon and my blog is all about old, lost, secret weapons. I have been interested in weapons since i was growing up always wanting to build them and see how they where made, this interest is still growing and i have a great pasion in weapons and i want to sare this with you. In all my blogs I will have stats about all the weapons such as their dimentions, their clip size, volosity, where they were made, how they were made, also their history, how they were used and, why we needed them, and if they still use it today. Weapons have been around for years and are still used today in many situations in wars and in ceramonies. Each weapons is used diferently and used for diferent perposes for diferents scenes and diferent invironments. In my posts I will start with more primitive weapons such as clubs, spears... and eventualy get to more recent weapons that we use today and that are more modern. I hope you find my postings fun and interesting and learn alot from them, hope you keep reading thanks!