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(Top) 1 Offensive weapons 1.1 Melee weapons 1.1.1 Sword and hilt weapons 1.1.2 Spears and polearms 1.2 Ranged weapons 1.3 Siege weapons 1.4 Warships 1.5 Animals in war 2 See also 3 References

List of medieval weapons

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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[edit]

Melee weapons[edit]

Sword and hilt weapons[edit]

Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight.

Arming sword
Dagger
Estoc
Falchion
Katana
Knife
Longsword
Messer
Rapier
SabreorSaber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
Shortsword
Ulfberht (Frankish)

Spears and polearms[edit]

Ranged weapons[edit]

Bows
- Longbows
- Recurved bows
  - Hungarian bow
  - Perso-Parthian bow
- Short bows and reflex bows
  - Gungdo
  - Hankyu
  - Mongol bow
  - Turkish bow
- Crossbows
Flamethrowers
- Byzantine flamethrower^[1]
- Pen Huo Qi flamethrower
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[edit]

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

Warships[edit]

Animals in war[edit]

References[edit]

^ ^a ^b 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.

Weapons

History

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