What is the most Exotic weapon you've ever seen?

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wewontdie11 said:
I'm a fan of the gunblade personally. The mechanics behind making something like that balanced and usable are pretty much impossible but it's so freaking cool!
Actually they do exist. When I visited the Higgins Armory Museum they had whole cases full of gunblades and gunshields. Most of them were of Italian origin. Now granted we're not talking a rapid fire science fiction weapon, but basically a sword with a one shot gun in it.

As far as exotic weapons go, if I was to be honest about it I think I might very well push the limits of good taste on the forums. Let's just say that I've played a few adult video games and not everyone making weapons IRL saw "weapon" as only meaning something practical on the battlefield. Tools used by executioners and such are generally considered to be weapons.

Within the limits of the discussion I'd probably have to think of things like the Alien Arm Gun (pull the tendon to fire!) from Redneck Rampage, and for real life it would be a toss up between a lot of things Hitler had in development before the end of World War II that were never actually fielded, from methods to distribute flammable gas in the air so it would destroy other planes as they flew through it, to what amounted to giant fans employing (again) gas to fire giant flaming rings as sort of field artillery. Some of the things germany engineers had come up with and were on the verge of making practical were rather interesting, and it's also frightening to look back on some of that and realize how close
we came to losing.

For a real life man portable weapon, I once ran accross this knife made for divers which injects liquid freon (I think that was the stuff) into whatever it hits. The idea being that you can disable/float away sharks easily by stabbing and injecting them.