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*yawn* this again.
I'm betting any well made sword would perform similarly.
Now, I'm also betting that armour piercing bullets would do a lot more damage, possibly taking out the blade in one hit.
(they are firing .50 ball, which is an anti-infantry round. Armour-Piercing have black tips.)
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I love this sort of thing, I really do. The number of people who do this stuff as a means of clinging on to the idea that katanas are in any way superior to other swords is amazing.
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| Sugarpuffs: FOIP. Mr Dreadful: I don't really care about the katana, I just thought it was cool that someone would actually blaze away at one with a .50 cal machine gun, (which was really really cool and went Dakkadakkadakka). I also saw some videos where a fella was cutting arrows in half with a katana and thought that was quite impressive, but in the immortal words of the people at ID "Never take a pistol (or katana) to a submachine gun match."
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Sorry... I didn't mean to make it sound like you were the katana lover. I just meant that it amazes me that people will do this kind of thing with katanas rather than other types of sword due to the mistaken belief that katanas are somehow better.
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Everyone knows that katanas can cut tanks in half, especially when wielded by ninjas.
The most important property of the katana though is that it instantly makes the wielder really tough and a superb swordsman, so long as he has seen at least one B-movie that involves wielding a katana... holding a katana and then having a fight is almost as good for confidence as downing a couple of beers and then going to chat up women.
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The most important property of the katana though is that it instantly makes the wielder really tough and a superb swordsmanEspecially if the wielder is a spotty nerd with a prominent Adam's Apple and no sense of personal hygiene... really, I used to know a guy who fitted that description and had several 'genuine' katanas in his room and would tell everyone how he'd learned all the secrets of their usage. To which we'd reply "yeah? Is that why you're still living with your mum at 30?" But anyway. Katanas may be able to cut through tanks, but only if the steel has been folded 2,000 times and it was quenched in the blood of a criminal.
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| Nihon-to are arguably the best cutting weapons ever. The problem is that although cutting is very effective against soft tissue, both slashing, chopping, and piercing weapons are more effective against armour. The plus side of katanas is that they`re still being produced. How many other types of sword are? And no, museum grade or even life steel replicas are not 'the real thing'. Apart from that, people are still sure on how they are to be used. (My first instructor, when he was in Japan, got some hints on what angle to use when cutting people in half from an old man who had practised it on prisoners in Kamshatqa during WWII.) I agree with coffmeister that the whole idea is cool in itself. I just wonder why they were aiming at the lower half of the weapon, as that is not the part you`d hit with. (And maybe a little about what quality grade this weapon was that they were willing to sacrifice it?)
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