Renaissance-era weapons

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thumb|right|Muskets and bayonets aboard the [[frigate Grand Turk]]

A halberd (also called halbard or halbert) is a two-handed polearm that was in prominent use from the 13th to 16th centuries. The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It may have a hook or thorn on the back of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants and protecting allied soldiers, typically musketeers. The halberd was usually long.

thumb|Japanese arquebuses on a rack at Himeji Castle

pole weapon

thumb|15th century culveriners

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thumb|A drawing of ribauldequins, as designed by Leonardo da Vinci. thumb|Organ gun in the Bellifortis treatise (written ca. 1405, illustration from Clm 30150, ca. 1430)

Japanese firearm

right|thumb|upright|Two examples of a bardiche together with a flail (weapon)|flail, on display in [[Suzdal]]

type of polearm

thumb|300px|Figure illustrating the basic cuts with the Dusäck in Joachim Meyer's fencing manual; a pair of fencers using the Dusäck is shown in the background (illustration by [[Tobias Stimmer, 1570).]] A dusack or dussack (also dusägge and variants, from Czech tesák "cleaver; hunting sword", lit. "fang") is a single-edged sword of the cutlass or sabre type, in use as a side arm in Germany and the Habsburg monarchy during the 16th to 17th centuries, as well as a practice weapon based on this weapon used in early modern German fencing.

thumb|Corseque, ca. late 16th - early 17th century. On display at Morges military museum. The corseque is a type of European polearm, characterised by a three-lobe blade on a shaft. The head features a long spike and two shorter and stronger lateral blades.

cold weapon

type of cannon

usually a two-handed sword used as an executioner's tool of trade

thumb|A koncerz with a conventional cutting edge A koncerz () is a type of sword used by Polish-Lithuanian cavalry in the Renaissance period. It is a narrow and long thrusting sword, generally used by a type of heavy cavalry (husaria, the famed Polish hussars) and optimized to defeat body armor, either by piercing directly through the metal links of mail armour or by thrusting at the exposed gaps between the plates of plate armour, but was not used to cut or slash at enemy combatants.

thumb|300px|An Edo period wood block print showing samurai gunners firing bo-hiya with hiya-zutsu (rocket guns)

high-caliber, smoothbore firearm of the 16th to 18th centuries

type of wide-blade dagger with an H-shape handle

type of fencing sword

300px|thumb|right|The head of an obuch (with a rolled up beak) The obuch, obuszek or obuszysko is a type of melee weapon, very similar to a horseman's pick () but differing from it with a curved beak opposite the hammer. In Poland, it was customary to distinguish this type of weapon by the type of tip: if it has a sharp, perpendicular beak, it is a horseman's pick; if the beak is curled downward, it is an obuch; if it has an axe head, it is a . Most often there was a hammer on the opposite side of the blade.