List of medieval weapons
The following is a list of Wikipedia articles of the types of weapons that were in use during the post-classical historical period (roughly between the mid 1st to mid 2nd millennia AD).
Offensive weapons
Trauma and cleaving weapons
Swords and hilt weapons
Swords can have single or double bladed edges or even edgeless. The blade can be curved or straight.
Spears and polearms
Ranged weapons
- Bow
- Flamethrowers
- Gunpowder weapons
- Rocket powered weapons
- Byzantine rocket launcher
- Huo Che rocket arrow launcher
- Hwacha rocket arrow launcher
- Sling
- Throwing weapons
Siege weapons
- Ballista
- Battering ram
- Bombard
- Byzantine fire tube, cannon[2]
- Byzantine rocket launcher[3]
- Cannon
- Huo Che rocket arrow launcher
- Hwacha rocket arrow launcher
- Mortar
- Petrary
- Siege tower
- Staff sling
Defensive weapons
Armor
While armor is not technically a weapon, its use was driven by weapon technology and was a driving force in weapon development.
Fortifications
Medieval fortifications also developed in connection with the weapons that opposed them.
See also
References
- 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 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.
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