/k/ - Weapons

The hidden blade is the most inspiring weapon I've come across so far. The design allows for the expression of creativity like so many other great weapons. Not only is there the obvious uses, it has room to innovate.

>>573108

It seems like something that should have always existed but it didn't. That is why it is such a cool and plausible idea. If I were in charge of a team I would create the hidden blade and train my fellow comrades in its' use.

>>573110

It's a very good way of stabbing yourself

>>573100

>>573108

just duck tape an otf switchblade to your forearm.

Something that captured my interest as a kid was the thought of "rocket launcher pistols", like those toy guns from the 2 dollar store that launch really small foam rockets at people. I imagined it to be like a single shot weapon where you put them on the end of the spigot and shooting it focussed the blast upwards through the spigot to control the recoil initially, with a small charge of dynamite on the front that exploded when you hit something. Basically, a deadlier bottle rocket launcher in a handgun package back when I didn't know gyrojet was a thing

I also thought dinobot's spinning tail from beast wars was the shit, it blocked stuff, it chopped stuff, and anything too far away he just zapped with his eye lasers anyway. airazor best transformer fight me faggot

>>573232

>you could make an excuse that maybe the other alien races have weaker weapons and the Feddies like to play nice and don't like to use overkill

Not at all. Federation weapons are universally described as "less powerful but more advanced/flexible" than other species kit. You even see them using the lower settings to slowly cut holes through walls when one of the higher settings with a wide beam dispersal would carve a 5m hole through the wall in under a second. They'd be the perfect infantry weapon if there wasn't a ~30% chance of some bulllshitanium field interfering with the firing mechanism, which lead to the development of the TR-116, a sci fi projectile rifle, that one random science officer upgraded with a micro-teleporter and some kind of wallhack eyepiece to let it fire through walls. There's clearly a few /k/ommandos in the setting, but they don't fit in with the technosocialistpacifist attitude the writers are generally going for.

>>573237

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flare_gun

>In World War II, Germany manufactured grenades designed to be fired from adapted flare guns known as the Kampfpistole, or Sturmpistole in its final form. The weapon was designed to function as an anti-tank weapon but failed to perform to expectations due to the minuscule amount of TNT carried in the hollow charge projectiles.[9]

A few decades late.

>>573094

I've always hated impractical weapons/armor.

benis :-DDDD