/sci/ - Science & Math

>>3543741
I never considered that so important, but evidently with advances in technology and swordsmithing, swords have increasingly been made curved to the extent that practically all swords immediately preceding the modern era (I think of japanese katana and western sabres) have been curved. Interesting fact: a katana is a sabre. It means a curved sword.

Rapiers excepted, but it was never a weapon of war.

>>3543750
A spear is to a sword what a rifle is to a pistol. Kind of. Maybe it's more of a submachinegun.

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