We are talking about power source i.e. a hunk of metal placed upon a force field.
Without the force field, it's gonna against unarmored without costing energy.
With the force field, it slices and dices armor.
The perfect CQC weapon.
Military Swords In Modern Day
Robert Gonzalez
Daniel Wright
Stop lying spergook. Sharpening a blunt sword with only a whetstone takes hours and if the edges are rolled over or severely deformed you will never get them back into shape that way. The only way maintaining a sword would be as easy as maintaining a gun is if you had a grinding wheel available. Swords weren't meant to last multiple battles anyway. The damage inflicted by a single swordfight would be enough to warrant replacing the sword when you got the chance. You wouldn't bet your life on a blade with a deep notch in the edge knowing that the strength is compromised in that spot.
Carter Butler
Well, you can always get a new sword, which is frankly very easy to make with modern technology.
Logan Flores
So every man should be issued and resupplied constantly with a whole bunch of (power) swords. Ignoring the logistics and economics of that, how do we make room for more swords? Certainly ditching the medkit, food, and the water canteen can only make room for one or two extra swords, but no more. I'm afraid we'd have to ditch the underbarrel shotgun and its ammo to make room for more.
Cooper Ross
The First World War was the last time mêlée was actually somehow important, and they didn't bother with swords, instead they preferred shovels, improvised maces, punching daggers or just sharpened metal sticks. All of them are simple weapons to manufacture and use. You just repeadetly hit the enemy until they die. Now, a sword is simply not suited for that kind of work, it's simply a waste of time and effort. You simply don't have the means to have a proper duel with the enemy that involves taking up stances, parrying, and doing all that theatrical stuff.
Maybe you want something fancier than a simple sharp stick made of steel. In that case you should want a fighting knife. I readily admit that I don't know what makes a fighting knife, and I don't understand why would you bother with it. Still, you can take any kind of knife and turn it into a bayonet without having any impact on the knife itself. You don't even need a muzzle ring, if it's that important for you then copy the Gewehr 98's bayonet mounting system (vid related). Actually, you could put the mounting point on the gas block of the rifle, and then mounting the bayonet wouldn't impact accuracy that much. Of course all that extra weight still has an effect.
Adam Butler
I simply don't know why I repeat these kind of words so much when I use English. It doesn't even register in my mind until I reread my sentences a few times.
Ian Howard
How U N A E S T H E T I C
Lucas Green
Stop making my other posts sound smart maybe?
Elijah Hall
You seem to be smarter than the rest of these autists.
Brody Nelson
I already know that… What type of idiot do you take me for…? Oh my God, yes, those are swords, no I never said that they weren't, I'm just going by my preferred type of sword.