The Katana

Revered object of sacred mystery and deadly beauty, or tool for hitting people - you decide. I'll help.

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[RiflemanJohnson]

You can slice through a machine gun if it's overheated, you dunce. Machine guns tend to get very hot, and hot metal is soft.

Idiot.

[lindybeige]

@RiflemanJohnson This has been tried, and no one has yet replicated it.

[cuboos]

@RiflemanJohnson good to know, now get close to a dude firing a machine gun long enough to get it hot enough to cut.

[lindybeige]

@cuboos He'd run out of ammo long before it got that hot.

[lindybeige]

@furikuri52 Er, no. Get any two knives made of the same stuff from your cutlery drawer, and try to slice through one with the other.

[mariomcp]

BUT MY JAPANESE ANIMES SAID THAT A KATANA WAS FOLDED OVER 10,000 TIMES AND COULD CUT THROUGH A BROADSWORD BECAUSE BAKA GAJIN WESTERN EUROPEANS USED STUPID FLAT WEAPONS.

JAPANESE KATANS ARE THE EPITOME OF SWORD CRAFTING DESIGN AND ARE THE BEST SWORDS EVER CREATED, AND IF AMERICA WASN'T SUCH A BARBARIC COUNTRY AND ATTACKED JAPAN, JAPAN WOULD STILL HAVE THE GLORIOUS SAMURAIS TO FIGHT FOR HONOR.

HOW DARE YOU INSULT THE KATANA, I SHOULD CUT OFF YOUR HEAD IN A SECOND YOU BAKA GAJIN.

[wolfyk95]

@wolfdragga Damascus got its quality from the content of the steel modern technology cannot replicate the original Damascus's formula but modern Damascus is made from layers of different steel OR modern lower quality Damascus (sub $100 knives/swords) which is laser etched.

[Railstarfish]

When Hank Reinhardt attempted to track down the story of katana cutting through machine gun barrels, it seemed to have happened in Guadalcanal, Bougainville, Iwo Jima, Tarawa, and several other islands - this led him to conclude Japanese soldiers had a pathological hatred of machine-gun barrels, and he wondered why they never tried to cut down the gunner.

[cuboos]

@lindybeige not entirely, if it were a suppression weapon, he could have a long chain of bullets being fed into the gun, then yes you could fire it long enough to get it soft enough. of course... the only reason you'd do that is if you wanted to ruin your gun. and even then if a machine gunner sees a dude running up with a katana, he's going to fill him full of holes before he could even run long enough to realize what a dumb idea that was.

[Masterfrogg]

@12aikido No modern armies use Katanas or even any sort of true sword. You're obviously really gullible if someone had you believe that. And yes, with a sword you need to go through the armor to kill someone. Even if a big dent made it harder to move in armor, it wouldn't kill. And it wouldn't make it any harder to move, because that makes no sense. There's pretty much no armor that leaves your back unprotected and samurais weren't any more "good at accuracy" than anyone else.

[12aikido]

Well if it is a so bad sword why do some American armys NOW use them? It is a great sword, and you do not need to go tru a armor to kill the one inside. If you make a big dent in it, it will be hard to move. You can just go aroud him and cut him there, the samurais were good at accuracy and did not need a so thin sword. The katana could last for more than 200 years because thay did not break.

[BlueDrag0n]

ill bring this out here. Yes Katana are "inferior" in terms of killing power and effectiveness compared to most weapons. But I definitely prefer katana over other blades for the amount of value and pride poured into it. What does these... daggers and shields and guns have? Better ability to harm and kill. Technical, effective, but not one bit appealing, to me.

Then again, comparing katana to most blades is like comparing cookie with a loaf of bread. One taste sweet, latter fills you up better.