Re: Anti-Armor Weapons

"peter wezeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote
> .....Was there any Japanese equivalent
> to these weapons, or something else with an armor-piercing point that
> could be driven against armor with maximum kinetic energy?

Sure- the yoroi-toshi was an armor piercing knife used in yoroi kumi-uchi.
There was a hamidachi 'helmet breaker', bird beak hammers, big maul hammers,
big axes (the 'O-No' is my favorite name). There were pole arms like
naginata and nagimaki that got larger and with armor piercing points.
Even the kissaki 'tip' of the katana sword was reinforced for armor piercing
into the Shinto period.
Look at the Myochin family for armor piercing data.

Chas