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Post by bluetrain on Oct 10, 2016 18:11:55 GMT
Thanks for your comments and funny you should mention the air cavalry. I recall an article that appeared in, I think, Popular Mechanics (or maybe Mechanix Illustrated) in the early 1950s. It compared a horse mounted soldier with one mounted on a one-man helicopter. The accompanying illustration showed them charging--or flying--over enemy territory dropping grenades on an artillery position. The enemy were North Koreans, none of who seemed to be shooting back. They were mounted astride the little helicopters the way you ride a motorcycle, piloting the thing with one hand. Popular Mechanics has always been one of the most futuristic of magazines and that article certainly proved it. It fascinated me at the time and so remains vivid in my memory. And if I remember correctly, the air cavalry trooper had some kind of bladed weapon, too. At the time, the horse cavalry had only been gone for ten years, too.
I don't know that fighting in an urban space was at all unusual historically and that isn't so different from fighting in a trench. You would also get a lot of argument about the effectiveness of handguns, too. Of swords used within living memory, I'd say a Japanese army sword of WWII would be close to ideal, although in the NCO version, with the metal scabbard (which was olive drab), it weighs a ton or feels like it does, and it's easy to get in the way. But they were clearly used in combat during the war--perhaps because they didn't care for their own pistols.
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 6:12:55 GMT
Im having a ko katana with a shorter, 18" DH blade made, for better hallway stabbing and slashing. Is that tactical? A blade made for a specific task?
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 11, 2016 7:39:37 GMT
Has it a LASER? In my opinion there is no tactical sword in the meaning of the one and only form of blade/hilt. Take the sword that fits your purpose (for the most: admiring it or cut bottles). But with an anti-rust coating, perhaps camo, a good modern grip material, and perhaps the smell of napalm.
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 8:32:20 GMT
Lol, none of that, but the ito is green..
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 8:41:22 GMT
That makes it BioHazard, not tactical.... Tactical in its truest sense is something that has been remade or made for a specific tactic, be it improvised or intentional.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 11, 2016 8:42:00 GMT
Green ito is tactical and you could attach a laser-pen with tactical duct tape!
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Post by Croccifixio on Oct 11, 2016 8:50:06 GMT
While I love my current "tactical" ginunting that I posted in the first page, this is going to be my target "tactical" purchase for the year :P
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 9:22:45 GMT
While I love my current "tactical" ginunting that I posted in the first page, this is going to be my target "tactical" purchase for the year Very nice! And @asad that's exactly what it is, a shorter bladed ko katana I'm having made for one purpose: Indoor cqb, to be kept at my bedside near my pistol. 😉
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 9:29:46 GMT
While I love my current "tactical" ginunting that I posted in the first page, this is going to be my target "tactical" purchase for the year Very nice! And @asad that's exactly what it is, a shorter bladed ko katana I'm having made for one purpose: Indoor cqb, to be kept at my bedside near my pistol. 😉 Pistols and blades...... New era Assassin's Creed....
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 9:33:48 GMT
I'm kind of partial to Dishonored.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 11, 2016 9:34:38 GMT
Our friend Howler here will be happy to read this. If I remember correctly he once mentioned a 21" ko-katana under his bed!
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 9:40:28 GMT
Our friend Howler here will be happy to read this. If I remember correctly he once mentioned a 21" ko-katana under his bed! He's the one that got me thinking about it. Hard to swing a full sized katana in my small house, especially in the hallways. But a two handed ko katana with an 18" blade, that's another story. I figure its worth the investment, and Wes has some fine work displayed in this forum.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 11, 2016 9:52:45 GMT
Hanwei banshee, hehe, and with a bit of luck they believe me that I didn't know it was no baseball bat. Perhaps I should apply a few tactical team stickers. Wait until you got the maintz!
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 9:57:44 GMT
Maybe if I have him put a folding spoon in the tsuka, it will be tactical. Kill intruder, eat cereal while I wait for the police to come.
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Post by AndiTheBarvarian on Oct 11, 2016 10:08:02 GMT
That's strategical!
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 11:18:44 GMT
The hallways in my house might also be a tiny bit of a problem considering anything with a 26+ inch blade. But the rest of the places won't be.
Might letting me know who's Wes?
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Post by scottw on Oct 11, 2016 11:33:52 GMT
Lonely Wolf Forge
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Post by Deleted on Oct 11, 2016 11:41:16 GMT
Oh....
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Post by Zen_Hydra on Oct 11, 2016 15:44:52 GMT
I would love to see a Mainz blade with something like a Prussian P-guard sabre hilt. A short, wide blade with decent knuckle protection and an fumble-free grip. The scabbard could be a carbon fiber reinforced plastic, because...reasons.
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Post by bluetrain on Oct 11, 2016 16:11:22 GMT
British bayonet scabbards used to be made of plain plastic, meaning they didn't have a wire cutter feature. I don't know anything about the technical specification of the plastic, however. American bayonet scabbards were made of some kind of fiberglass, or so they looked. Either of those should do fine. Alternatively, a metal scabbard with a cloth cover or sleeve, the way helmets are typically covered.
At the beginning of WWI, both the German helmet and the French cavalry helmet were provided with cloth covers for tactical purposes but not much else had been done along those lines by the start of the war. But bayonet scabbards for most armies were in a flat color already by then. The French Army mess tin/gamelle, however, was a bright tin pot carried without a cover on top of the pack or blanket roll, providing a fairly obvious target. It nevertheless was still in use in some units in 1940, even though officially replaced by a different model. But by then, many had been galvanized, painted or rusted.
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