Stabbing weapon
A stabbing weapon is a weapon that is tapered and designed primarily to stab a body and thereby injure or stab an opponent . If metal is used for the blade, it is one of the edged weapons . If the point or blade rests on a, usually wooden, longer shaft, it is a pole weapon .
Like a cutting weapon , a stabbing weapon can also have a cutting edge. The transitions between the cutting and stabbing weapons are often fluid, as a saber , for example , can be used both for striking an opponent and for stabbing. Even typical stabbing weapons, such as the bayonet , exist in various designs, which often also allow use as a cutting weapon. A halberd and many other weapons even combine the various functions by being composed of several blades.
The stabbing weapons of older times include the spear , the spear (pike), the lance , the halberd , the glaive , the spetum , the trident , the four-pointed , the partisan (all polearms up to this point), the dagger , the knife and various Sword shapes. Stabbing weapons of modern times are the rapier , the foil , the rapier , the Parisian , the pallasch , the bayonet, the stiletto and the bayonet-shaped side guns of the infantry.
The Swiss Degen gave in 1500 to the federal soldiers a tactical advantage against the mercenaries of King Maximilian the majority with cutting weapon were equipped.
See also
literature
- Wendelin Boeheim: Handbook of the armory. Reprint of the Leipzig 1890 edition. Fourier Verlag, Wiesbaden 1985, ISBN 978-3-201-00257-8 .
- Jan Sach: Illustrated lexicon of cutting and stabbing weapons . Erlangen 2001. ISBN 3-89555-792-7 .
- VPAM, TEST GUIDELINE: "Stab and impact protection" (see Chapter 3 Definition of Terms ) online PDF
- Erich Haenel, Alte Waffen, Volume 4 of the library for art and antique collectors, Verlag RC Schmidt & Co., 1920, page 23, 172
- Manuel Braun, Cornelia Herberichs, Violence in the Middle Ages: Realities, Imaginations , Verlag Fink, 2005, ISBN 978-3-7705-3881-2