12 Wild Weapons Too Bizarre For Battle

What are the prime characteristics of a decent, battle-ready weapon? It should inflict damage on your enemy with minimal effort from you. They should be light-weight, easy to use, practical and utilitarian in every way. But as these 12 weapons show, not all weapons are created equally. Some are better suited to win beauty contests rather than battles — and others are simply too strange for words!

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1. A 450-year-old prototype for the Swiss Army Knife?

This universal tool was used between 1560 to 1570.

2. A pleasant-looking antique trinket? Think again.

This is actually a 700-year-old hand grenade from the 12th-century crusades that would have been filled with a flammable liquid and used like a Molotov cocktail.

3. Some pistols just look too pretty to fire.

This fancy three-chamber box lock pistol once belonged to Napoleon.

4. And now for something a little different…

This helmet was given to King Henry VIII by Emperor Maximilian I in 1514. It was likely intended for pageantry rather than battle.