wackiest historical weapons?

[Tetsubo]

Well, as we can see, wacky and functional are two different things entirely.

How about the chakram? I'm surprised no one has mentioned it yet.

I don't know if I consider the chakram all that wacky. It's a steel ring with a sharpened edge. I've seen film of it boing used. It certainly looked leathal. Especially when you take into account that it was being used against essentially unarmoured foes.

Now the European hurlbat was a tad wacky.

http://www.arms-armor.cz/catalog/files_products/th_ax001.jpg

Every bit was pointed or edged and designed to stick into things. Just for it's rarity it deserves a mention.

But I still think the Chinese and Indians are tied for wacky weapon designs.

Though the WWII era sub-machine gun that was designed to fire around corners was odd...

 

[Ferret]

Surprisingly it's just bent. I scetched a peri-gun it shoots over walls. In the time when Gunpowder was dodgy they strapped rockets to dogs, if the "bomb" failed there would still be a dog. And the scarab, a rocket powered iron beetle on a board. It went along water...