What is the single greatest military weapon ever created?
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Figong
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Real life Rocketman, with a rocket arsenal to boot? Seems legit, let's start development of that - not sarcasm, am serious.
Doer
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And you could not even show the godamm human curtesy to give your buddy a reach around. (from Full Metal Jacket)
Doer
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There is the Throwing Star. It has taken many forms. This is the so called Apache. Easy to make out of anything and you can choose your caliber. 
This a bit big for rabbit, but a good size for White Tail. (good luck with that shot)
If you are truly balls full, you go after coyote. Man stopper...a bit bigger than this.
OMG! Just found a sling stick. And is that porcupine quill you have loaded up thar, marm?
<he, heh,> ....Hell of a day, ain't it? (oh, that's just the post top) Good idea, maybe?
This a bit big for rabbit, but a good size for White Tail. (good luck with that shot)If you are truly balls full, you go after coyote. Man stopper...a bit bigger than this.
OMG! Just found a sling stick. And is that porcupine quill you have loaded up thar, marm?
<he, heh,> ....Hell of a day, ain't it? (oh, that's just the post top) Good idea, maybe?
3 Pounds of Weeden
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Brainwashing is the greatest weapon ever.
Doer
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Yeah. That's a funny and quite a believable story. Dumb Trojans.
Padawanbater2
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Lulz
F22 would own a Typhoon
kpmarine
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"Greatest" seems hard to peg down. There are many different levels on which a weapon can excel. A mortar crew can't take out a jet, but it can deny that jet an ability to refuel by cratering the landing strip. An M1 Abrams can obliterate many other armored vehicles before the enemy has a clue where they are. One shot from a well placed sniper can throw an entire country into turmoil, entirely ruining their military effectiveness. The weapon is not nearly as important as who is using it and how it is used. The Afghanis made the Russians' lives hell with rifles they made over campfires out of cookpots; the Americans fucked the dominant naval and ground forces of their era up with a bunch of poorly trained volunteers during our revolution; Israel has managed to hold their own while outnumbered and outgunned in the past as well; then there's the battle of Thermopylae; Custers last stand too, that was bows and spears vs. cartridge rifles that could drop Buffalo. History has shown us that it's not so much the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. No matter how big your gun is, sheer determination will always win; short of something on the magnitude of nuclear war.
budlover13
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Very valid points but @ Custer's last stand, it has been forensically proven that the Indians had more modern firearms than Custer and his troops. Custer's men were using single shot breech loaders while the Indians were using repeating rifles.
Figong
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Agreed, this discussion is rock-paper-scissors with every weapon that could possibly exist.. not any 1 true winner as everything has a weakness. (At this point) Including the B-2 & F-117A, which glow on radar if they fly over normal cellular towers. (Or did, pre-rebuild)
Doer
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And when all that is done we can still bash each other
kpmarine
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I forgot about that, I always think about the stories of the rout, where it was mostly lances and coup sticks; but that was after the shooting was mostly done.
Dr Kynes
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dont forget the tomahawks and scalping knives...
That Damned Muleskinner should have warned Custer.
Doer
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Classic ....divide the forces, fire and maneuver. Thoughtlessly and easily executed, since the victory was handed to the Firsters on a silver plater of Sharps and Henries.
And brought by the Major that failed the block.
budlover13
King Tut
Yet ANOTHER argument for having better weapons than those opposing/oppressing one imo.