India's Five Most Ferocious Cold Weapons

The five most ferocious cold weapons in India

Everyone knows that the Indians are good at turning on the heat and are an incredible country, and that the Indian civilization in many ways seems out of place in the rest of the world, as if it were a civilization from another world. But what you don't know is that even the cold weapons of India are very strange. Most of these odd sword and cold weapons are found in ancient times and here is a look at them.

Ring Blade

The ring blade is a round metal weapon, between ten and thirty centimeters in diameter, used mainly by Sikh warriors. The ringblade can be held and slashed directly, or used for throwing, and its edge is so sharp that it can easily cut off a person's head and limbs. Thrown like a Frisbee, its rounded shape rotating at high speed ensures that it can inflict cutting damage on its target and no one will want to catch it because it is sharp all around. Its throwing distance can reach 50 meters, and it can easily cut bamboo with a diameter of 2 centimeters at a distance of 30 meters.

For light throwing weapons, this range is already against the heavens, the average flying dagger using the straight blade throwing method, its limit effective range is only ten meters. The rounded blade had the added benefit of being easily used on horseback or elephant back as well.

Fist blade

This Indian fist blade is called "Qatar", is a kind of hand attack knife in northern India, is a very common weapon in the battlefield at that time, generally fixed in the wrist, can be held single or double. Its design is very unique, the blade is wide and sharp, the handle is H-shaped, including two horizontal handle, commonly used in steel casting. Its handle is at right angles to the side bars that extend upward, which are parallel to the arm holding the cross handles.

This type of weapon is particularly powerful and fierce, and is a short-handed weapon that can be used for combat hunting. In fact, the limitations of the Fist Blade are also very great, unable to utilize the wrist force to make an added chop, or to use the wrist movement to make a precise block. Nowadays it is more popular in games and anime works.

Double-pointed swords

Double-pointed swords are about 25-35 centimeters long and have two opposing, slightly curved blades, usually with an additional blade in the center guard, or more accurately, triple-edged swords. Double-pointed sword two tips can kill the enemy, in close combat, this weapon can form a curved cutting surface, sweeping, vertical stabbing, direct hit can be, like a knife and like a sword, can stab people can penetrate the armor, with the long weapon, with a move to kill the enemy's fatal effect.

This is a special weapon used by the people of Central India around the 8th century, and with the invasion of Islamic forces in India in the 12th century, this weapon has spread throughout the Islamic world and become a weapon of general use.

Tiger Claw Knife

The Tiger Claw Knife is a special weapon of India, whose name means "tiger's claw". It comes in two shapes: one where the hand grips the handle behind the iron claw, and a strap to tie the claw to the forearm; and the other where it can be held in the hand. This is a wrist-worn weapon consisting of several curved daggers, a kind of close-combat cold weapon used in ancient India, whose curved blade is shaped like the tip of a tiger's paw and is extremely lethal.

The overall structure of the tiger's claw is very simple, worn on the wrist, the exposed part of the size is very small, but can cause considerable damage to the enemy. When used to pull up the palm of the hand, grab the place will be a deep and blade wound, aimed at the throat strike will die. In ancient India is only assassination of assassins and lawless thieves will use the cold weapon, belong to the dark weapon category.

Indian Soft Sword

The Indian Soft Sword, also known as the Indian Whip Blade, is a traditional weapon that originated in southern India, and is an easily bendable sword whip made of a highly resilient metal. The Indian soft sword is supposed to be one of the most dangerous melee weapons ever created and can do a lot of damage to an enemy. If a soft sword cuts into an opponent's artery or windpipe, the probability of the opponent's death is extremely high; even if it cuts into a limb or other part of the body, it can be enough to cause maiming and serious injuries, immediately incapacitating the fighter. Due to the long blade of the soft sword, it is also easy to cause some harm to the user, so it is necessary to be a very skillful warrior to use it well.

Some soft swords even have multiple blades, which can have the same effect as a shotgun when attacking, so a sword hit on the body, it's not much different from experiencing a lynching. To this day, there are still martial arts performances where both sides fight with whip blades and small shields.