What Is The Stupidest Weapon?

Rocket swords:


Same thing, but a longer clip:

Sickle-chucks are even stupider. Presenting, the Okinawan kusari-gama:



Of course, it's possible that you don't even swing the sickles at all, but instead use the chain between the two to block and choke (using the weapon like a flexible polearm instead of a sharp nunchaku).

Given that dual kama are a pretty staple part of Okinawan kobudo, I imagine a set with a chain between them would be used more like a pair of kama rather than a full blown polearm, with the chain used to block, bind, and manipulate the enemy's weapon while the blades themselves are the main focus; it probably wouldn't be too different than just combining the kama and surujin, another Okinawan kobudo weapon that's used in just such a fashion.

That said, the image above is an anime invention; an actual kusarigama only has a single sickle and its other end has an iron weight. Typically (to my knowledge), the iron weight and the chain was the actual weapon, used as a thrown weapon to strike at the enemy from a distance, bind their weapon, and ideally disarming them before using the kama for the finishing blow. In that respect, it probably wouldn't be any different if the bladed weapon were a tanto or something.

Here's one just about as 'self-dangerous'. RitterSteel Authentics spiked flail. I've swung it ONE TIME...and that'll be the LAST TIME.

I second this. I've never been a flail enthusiast. Especially when you have 2-3 of those balls flying around. Heck, I suck with a kendama, what luck do I have with something like this?

I just watched some warhammer videos crushing stuff... 2.5 pounds warhammers.

At 5 pounds, I can picture the spiked ball crushing/puncturing a helm easily. That's likely the whole point of the thing: Crushing and puncturing armor [shudder], wouldn't use it either.

This seems a bit... ludicrous. Presenting, an anti-tank gun from WWI:

Not many vehicles of the time would survive that rifle.  Wonder how it compares to some of todays sniper rifles?

Gerald Bull, assassinated in 1990 had spent a lifetime developing superguns, one still being built in Iraq before Desert Storm. Theoretical and practical models as early as the 1960s with an intent to launch as far as space from a supergun.

Anyway, back to the stupidest, or perhaps the most expedient was Bull's comments during the Israeli six day war that those lacking enough howitzers could improvise by making ballista using truck springs, launching shells as far as 200-400 yards. IIRC, a magazine or newspaper article. 50 years ago, so the source a bit fuzzy in my mind but probably Time or Life magazine, summer 1967. Gerald Bull though, someone I had followed after 1967 up to his being shot in Belgium. A super and simple artillery engineer.

The Third Reich had developed some "stupid superguns" as well.


Another absolutely stupid  was dropping incendiary bats.