List of medieval weapons
This is a list of weapons that were used during the medieval period. Each weapon is organized according to their purpose in battle.
Offensive weapons
Sword and hilt weapons
Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight.
Spears and polearms
Ranged weapons
- Bows
- Flamethrowers
- Gunpowder firearms
- Arquebuses
- Blunderbuss
- Hand cannons
- Baton a feu
- Bedil tumbak
- Hand cannon
- Huo Qiang lance hand cannon
- Heilongjiang hand cannon
- Huo Chong
- Meriam kecil
- Petronel
- San Yan Chong three barrel hand cannon
- Shou Chong
- Tu Huo Qiang
- Slings
- Throwing weapons
- Chakram
- Francisca
- Kunai
- Nzappa zap
- Shuriken
- Throwing knife
- Throwing spear
- Wurfkreuz (German throwing cross)
Siege weapons
- Ballista
- Battering ram
- Bombards
- Bombard
- Byzantine bombard (Greek)
- Dardanelles bombard (Turkish)
- Dulle Griet
- Faule Grete
- Faule Mette
- Grose Bochse
- Mons Meg
- Orban bombard
- Pumhart von Steyr
- Cannons
- Abus
- Basilisk
- Byzantine fire tube[1]
- Cannon
- Cetbang
- Chongtong
- Culverin
- Ekor lotong
- Falconet
- Fauconneau
- Hu Dun Pao cannon
- Korean cannon
- Lantaka
- Lela
- Pierrier a boite
- Pot de fer
- Prangi
- Saker
- Tarasnice
- Veuglaire
- Wankou Chong
- Xanadu cannon
- Xi Xia Bronze cannon
- Mortar
- Organ gun
- Petrary weapons
- Rocket powered weapons
- Byzantine rocket launcher[2]
- Huo Che rocket arrow launcher
- Hwacha rocket arrow launcher
- Siege tower
See also
References
- Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 12-13, Greece, 2002.
- Γεώργιος Ηλιόπουλος (Georgios Iliopoulos), "Η χαμένη πυραυλική τεχνολογία των αρχαίων Ελλήνων" (The lost missile technology of the ancient Greeks), Ιχώρ (Ihor), 27, page 13, Greece, 2002.
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