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Most Visually Pleasing Weapons Of All Time (vanity)

Posted on 06/03/2016 7:55:48 AM PDT by Don Hernando de Las Casas

Here’s a light-hearted question for a beautiful Friday morning. What are the most visually beautiful weapons ever created? I was gonna ask for your top 5 or top 10, but, really, why limit ourselves? ANY weapons count; notice I’ve counted warships on my list. I hope I haven’t listed all the best. Have at it, gang. Tiger tank 1911 .45 1921 Thompson BAR 1851 Colt Navy revolver M-60 and/or MG-42 Any ship of the line circa. 1770 – 1815, such as L’Orient.


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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

Smith and Wesson Model 29-2 .44 Magnum with 6 inch barrel in blue steel. Wildey 47510 Survivor .475 Wildey Magnum with 10 inch barrel in stainless steel.


121 posted on 06/03/2016 10:51:29 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Liberty Valance

Here Here!!


122 posted on 06/03/2016 10:51:58 AM PDT by DarthVader (Politicians govern out of self interest, Statesmen govern for a Vision greater than themselves)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
Compare a triple-deck ship of the line with the USS Constitution. See what you think.

I'll see your triple-decker and Constitution pair, and raise with the Confederate raider Alabama. Call!


123 posted on 06/03/2016 11:00:04 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: archy

Well said!


124 posted on 06/03/2016 11:02:13 AM PDT by Don Hernando de Las Casas
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

1) Roman Spatha Sword
2) English Longbow
3) Italian Dueling Rapier
4) Pennsylvania Flintlock ‘Long’ Rifle
5) Arkansas Toothpick / Bowie Knife / K-Bar
6) Springfield 1903 Bolt Rifle
7) M-1 Carbine
8) M-1 Garand
9) Browning M1911 Automatic
10) Browning Automatic Rifle (BAR)
11) AR-15 Rifle
12) SPAD S.XIII Fighter
13) Sopwith Camel Fighter
14) Submarine Spitfire Fighter
15) Boeing B-17 Bomber
16) Mitsubishi A6M Zero Fighter
17) de Havilland DH.98 Mosquito Attack/Bomber
18) Yakovlev Yak-9 Fighter
19) Focke-Wulf Fw 190 Fighter
20) Boeing B-29
Stopping to keep from getting too looooonnnnnggggg!


125 posted on 06/03/2016 11:04:07 AM PDT by SES1066 (Quality, Speed or Economical - Any 2 of 3 except in government - 1 at best but never #3!)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
Browning BAR 22 photo:  MVC-003F.jpg
126 posted on 06/03/2016 11:04:30 AM PDT by tumblindice (America's founding fathers: all armed conservatives.)
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To: PLMerite
Horton Ho229:

Horrido!


127 posted on 06/03/2016 11:06:50 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
Rule #9

Zero Tolerance ZT0301TS

128 posted on 06/03/2016 11:12:09 AM PDT by glock rocks (I'll be glad when the election is over, so FReepers can get back to discussing politics ...)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
BAR

FG42


129 posted on 06/03/2016 11:12:20 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
I'm surprised nobody has even mentioned the Valkyrie


130 posted on 06/03/2016 11:12:37 AM PDT by Don W ( When blacks riot, neighborhoods and cities burn. When whites riot, nations and continents burn)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas
Titan I nuclear missiles, circa 1962.


131 posted on 06/03/2016 11:20:44 AM PDT by r_barton (GO TRUMP!!!)
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To: Snickering Hound

Dicing Spit, Duxford, 1996

132 posted on 06/03/2016 11:24:01 AM PDT by archy (Whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger. Except bears, they'll kill you a little, and eat you.)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

Battleship USS New Jersey


133 posted on 06/03/2016 11:28:22 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Donald Trump, warts and all, is not a public enemy. The Golems in the GOP are stasis and apathy)
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To: FreedomPoster

The Germans didn’t make weapons during WWII. They made to me what looked like “killing machines”.


134 posted on 06/03/2016 11:29:22 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: glock rocks

And if you're feeling a bit more stealthy:

Becker BK9 Combat Bowie Knife

135 posted on 06/03/2016 11:30:29 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Liberty Valance

It somehow cooler when a Spitfire does it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iOoiEbtf2w

Language warning.


136 posted on 06/03/2016 11:34:33 AM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

A genuine Katana.

Beautiful and deadly.


137 posted on 06/03/2016 11:44:59 AM PDT by zeugma (Welcome to the "interesting times" you were warned about.)
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

Typo; MG 42


138 posted on 06/03/2016 11:59:03 AM PDT by henkster (Don't listen to what people say, watch what they do.)
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139 posted on 06/03/2016 12:23:28 PM PDT by CodeJockey
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To: Don Hernando de Las Casas

P-51 Mustang

P-38 Lightning

P-47 Thunderbolt

F-4U Corsair

B-17 Flying Fortress

That’s my list.


140 posted on 06/03/2016 12:32:49 PM PDT by Peter W. Kessler ("NUTS!!!")
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