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
Melee weapons
Trauma and cleaving weapons
- Battle axe
- Bec de corbin
- Bludgeon
- Club
- Flail
- Flanged mace
- Horseman's pick
- Mace
- Morning star
- Quarterstaff
- Shestopyor, Pernach
- War hammer
Swords and hilt weapons
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
- Rapier
- Sabre or Saber (Most sabers belong to the renaissance period, but some sabers can be found in the late medieval period)
- Shortsword
- Ulfberht (Frankish)
Spears and polearms
- Ahlspiess
- Bardiche
- Bec de Corbin
- Bill
- Glaive
- Goedendag
- Guisarme
- Halberd
- Lance
- Lochaber axe
- Lucerne hammer
- Man catcher
- Military fork
- Partisan
- Pike
- Plançon a picot
- Ranseur
- Sovnya
- Spetum
- Swordstaff
- Voulge
- War scythe
- War hammer
Ranged weapons
- Bow
- Flamethrowers
- Byzantine flamethrower[1]
- Pen Huo Qi flamethrower
- Gunpowder weapons
- Rocket powered weapons
- Byzantine rocket launcher
- Huo Che rocket arrow launcher
- Hwacha rocket arrow launcher
- Sling
- Throwing weapons
- Chakram
- Francisca
- Kunai
- Nzappa zap
- Shuriken
- Throwing knife
- Throwing spear
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
Warships
- Caravel
- Carrack
- Cog
- Fire ship
- Galleon
- Galley
- Hellburners
- Junk
- Longship
- Lou chuan (Baby ship)
- Qiao chuan (Banana ship)
- Turtle ship
Animals in war
- Camels in warfare
- Dogs in warfare
- Elephants in warfare
- Horses in warfare
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.
- Gambeson
- Gauntlet
- Lamellar armour
- Shield
Fortifications
Medieval fortifications also developed in connection with the weapons that opposed them.
- Bailey
- Barbican
- Battlement
- Castle
- Citadel
- City wall
- Curtain wall
- Drawbridge
- Fortified tower
- Gate
- Keep
- Moat
- Motte-and-bailey
- Murder-hole
- Palisade
- Portcullis
See also
- List of medieval military technologies
- List of premodern combat weapons
- Military technology and equipment
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.