think about it... do you really think this was a "real" weapon. it's nonsense. it's just for the movies. completely impractical - anyone who tried to use this in battle would get slaughtered.
@@heinrichze-france4089 yeah man! Great kung fo movie, one of my favorites. But yeah I dont think this was a real weapon, if it was used at all it would have been for executions.
@NUHH it's a very unrealistic weapon in the heat of combat. I believe it's to slow unwieldy and difficult to be accurate with, in addition trying to hit a moving target, because we both know no one will be stationary when that is thrown at them. They would likely parry or block and counter with an actual weapon like sword or spear. It's not impossible but very impractical, and as we know if a weapon isn't effective it will not survive.
The problem being that it's particularly hard to cut through that much tissue and bone with a blade, whereas a pulley driven mechanism like this would probably be able to achieve a complete beheading by making smaller cuts at multiple angles around the neck simultaneously. (think if it like cutting a tree branch with a machete vs loppers or shears. The shears tend to to a better and more immediate job)
Movies featuring the this thing if you'd like to see more: Flying Guillotine Mastter of the Flying Guillotine The Vengeful Beauty Flying Guillotine II (AKA Palace Carnage) Fatal Flying Guillotines The Heroic Trio The Kug Fu Master The Machine Girl The Boondocks episode "Stinkmeaner 3: the Hateocracy" (disguised as a lobster trap)
Chinese Warlord: Allow me to introduce my invincible army, all masters of the flying guillotine! Me: Allow me to introduce my army, all wearing sombreros.
It seems a completely impractical weapon. If it were a real device, i expect that it would be without the stupid bag/hat bit on top. The bag/hat would flop around,as it is only loosely attached, adding too much instability to throw the device accurately. Without the bag/hat it would be more like doing a ring toss, and much more effective. But that just gets it around someones neck. The other problem I perceive with it is getting the collar blades to close with sufficient force to decapitate. Just pulling the chain probably would be unlikely to generate enough force to close the blades, forcing them through both meat and bone. At least not without yanking the target completely off his feet. A more likely mechanism for a functioning "flying guillotine" would have the blades rigged to very strong springs and pinned open with a latch, such that when the chain was pulled the blades snap shut with great force in a manner not unlike a mousetrap, or possibly one of those ridiculous devices from SAW. With sufficiently sharp blades and strong enough springs, you could possibly cut someones head off. This is just my analysis, please don't try to make your own head removing appliance based on my description.
EggFooYung There's another problem: Do you know how tough it is to cut a human bones. Bones (particularly human bones) are hard to break, you need a lot of physic forces to cut through them. Even at a morgue/autopsy lab, the doctor that do autopsy have to used a specialized saw to cut through bones and they're not easy. So I can rule out this weapon ability to cut head. This flying guillotines' blade doesn't have the same force to cut off people head like the European one. The only thing the "flying guillotine" is just sliting a person's carotid artery and the person would died from massive blood loss rather then losing a head.
toomanyaccounts Are you sure about that. The human bone is very hard to cut. If Katana can cut it easily then medical examiners and pathologists should replace bone cutting saw with Katana.
+toomanyaccounts Notice what I said about how you use the katana? It takes years of practice with it to be able to cut objects such as wood or if you are a guiness book of world records holder for katana feats a steel pipe without the katana shattering. search youtube and you will see katanas being used to cut bones in half. bones are a lot more brittle then people think. its after death that the bones calcify and become hard.
I think it may be less for throwing and more for retrieval. Get in close, place or drop in quickly, then pull while running. Seems a lot more simple to me.
Very cool concept, but i feel that relying on other typical simple assassination weapons such as poison darts, knives and stuff is better and more versatile.
+Hetzerogeneous This for the time was long range if thrown from a balcony or upper floor and you got the head to show you did the job. Those other tools you gotta get up close and work at sawing the head off for your prize.
Let's be honest here... you can build immunities to poison. Knives don't always strike vital organs, and leave you perfectly exposed when you use them at their most effective close-range. Guns have a little tendency to run out of ammo, flamethrowers out of fuel, and bombs are pricey and imprecise. To a master of the fatal flying guillotine, these weaknesses can and do mean the difference between the glory of total victory and an undignified end. In the hands of a properly schooled imperial assassin, the blood dripper had no weaknesses; any man within 100 steps would be left 100% dead. There is a reason this weapon is known to be the ultimate kung-fu killer.
you know 1976's Master of the Flying Guillotine is the unofficial sequel to the 1974's Flying Guillotine...so yes, it appeared before 1976...so i guess you have to eat your hat and Nason has to eat his own ass.
Just saw this weapon as the subject of a Mythbusters experiment roughly an hour ago. Although Tory's version of the Flying Guillotine wasn't exactly like the one in this vid, it did seem plausible for use as an assassin's weapon, but not so much as a weapon for direct combat due to the difficulty of getting the Guillotine around the target's neck in the first place. o.o
No, because it's terribly inefficient if it is. Why have an eight foot long chain and a heavy metal blade, net, and cap when a sword would work just as well, if not better?
I read somewhere than it was use for assassin, but only in some situation example : the target is sit on a chair under a tree and the assasin is in the tree, so they can drop and not throwing the guillotine on the head with that they can be able to escape fastly with the head of the noble or victim to prove their contract. I'm not sure about that, cause it's really look unefficient if people throw it but it maybe a theory to explore.
@raffel63 The Flying Guillotine cannot decapitate. The blades simply injure and constrain the target. I would imagine the most important part of such a weapon would be its effect of blinding the target and preventing the target from putting up much of a fight without digging the blades deeper. That said, the impracticality of such a weapon is clear. The Flying Guillotine was likely never actually used.
Lessons to learn before using this weapon. 1:00 after 3 attempts you might cut the non moving targets nose off. Lesson 2 is around the 2 minute mark which is....have a conveniently placed trampoline in order to front flip over your enemy while placing this on his head. Hopefully he doesn't have a raiden hat on or it won't fit. Lesson 3 is if you are going to assassinate someone do it from 20 feet away on the second story and play ring toss with his head instead of shooting an arrow into him. Man this makes so much sense now. Lesson 4 is national graphics cgi sucks as bad as this weapon.
Personally, I believe the weapon has been used in the past for select assasination attempts, but was never publicised, mass produced, or carried on throughout history due to it's fleeting "effectiveness". While it's plausible it may have been in use in the past, or at least something that would imitate this, it is doubtfull that the weapon stayed in use long enough to go down in history. I mean, take the Ninento "power glove" for example in this respect, it is also a highly impractical tool, but yet it had been produced anyways in an (relatively failed) attempt to revolutionize gaming.
The flying guillotine does have one major weakness. The chain/rope used to control it. Dodge it and you can cut, grab, or tangle up the cord. You could then either immobilize it or use it against its wielder.
Why is there even a cap or curtain? What not just have the bottom part of the collar, and toss the ring with blades onto a person's head like a throwing ring at a carnival?
Thank you, Quan if I may add that many times the assassins life depended on proving the target was dead so that his life was not taken if he failed to kill his target by his master.
it's only real insofar as someone built one. it was not a "real" weapon at any point in time. it's completely impractical. only useful in fantasy movies
i dont know, but there's just better and more effective weapons out there to be using like a normal sword or bow and arrows. this weapon doesnt seem very useful
You need to preserve and retrieve the head and face to prove you have the bounty. Honestly, most people don't know what it is when they see it. So you can you walk near a dude with this and put it on his head and you would have his head in a bag in one stroke.
@@cyborgchicken3502 To be fair what he said would make sense considering there's probably very few of these things ever made. I think its wishful thinking but not impossible, I'm sure there's some crazy motherfucker that got this thing to work, even if it was lamely putting it on someone's head.
As someone who has done martial arts all her life, and is in a family full of defence personnel, I cannot imagine anything this impractical being used. Fighters are practical. They risk their own safety. You use the most practical and efficient method available. There were numerous, far more efficient methods of assassination available back then. Any self respecting fighter would use one of those. Legendary fighters, and those from folklore, on the other hand, use things that are weird and flashy. This is likely where it came from.
That was my first thought, but then if there was a bounty out for some one or the king literally wanted there heads. Then that is the only reason I can think of for the existence of this.
If this existed it would've been used exclusively for torture or executions. Even the existence of the iron maiden is debated, many of these things were made as novelties only.
on another note, I agree with YBKP this weapon is very difficult to use on those who are AWARE of it. But let's think practically about how this weapon should be used. Wouldn't it make the most sense to use this as an assassination tool rather than a melee weapon? i can picture an assassin snatching someone's head off and escaping with the quickness and speed Ezio Auditore would use in an assassination. By the way WHEN is Ubisoft going to set an Assassin's Creed game in FEUDAL JAPAN or Shaolin China? There are so many weapons and the settings are perfect for an Assassin's Creed game.
Only way this can kill from what i can see is if you manage to quickly put it on, make them trip over then you go and fall onto a lower area making the sudden force be put on the blades to try and decap the opponent.
This's why I believe a more plausible flying guillotine design would simply be a short, broad bladed, double-headed axe attached to the end of a long chain; it'd just be a lot less complicated and tedious than this weird hat thing here.
It doesn't need to decapitate to kill, nor to fly to be used.if it did exist i dout that it was more then a hat used for sneaking in and assassinating a target. Whether it actually decapitate someone or just cut away all the flesh summarily killing them and perhaps making it easier to just yank the head off is a question.
I believe this was probably some kind a prototype that looks good on deign, but never actually worked. Its much easier to throw a poison dagger or shank a dude.
IMO: This weapon was used as a secondary tool used AFTER the oppenent was down. I do know that Samurais from Japan valued the possession of their opponents head... Could the Chinese have a value of it as well?
Not sure why this weapon couldn't be simplified by just removing the mask part so that it ends up being just the ring with the blades. That way it ends up being almost a game of horseshoe or throwing a chakra around an enemy's neck.
they may use it in the death penalty or execution.. or tricks to kill the emperor because its appearance of that weapon is like a crown or hat. maybe this weapon used by Bounty hunter or Assassins
If these were thrown at enemies in a tight formation they might work since that will give the best chance of actually landing on someones head and that will be very low probably like a 5% chance and thats being to generous. But the ones that do hit will be a great moral breaker imagine walking towards the enemy in tight formation and one of these things land on the head of a guy next to you and he is decapitated that will put a lot of fear someone.If this was how they were used they would of been one shot weapons since getting them back would be impossible.
obviously its going to be hard to get it on a guy's head if you're doing kung fu flips throught the air I would just run up to the guy and put it on his head Skyrim style
So it really does exist, I thought it was just some Japanese urban legend, and I only remember seeing this on boondocks being used by lord Rufus crabmiser
More likely it was used when the victim is already captured or in a fight when it is forcibly placed onto the victim and used immediately. Just seeing someone with this weapon could scare the crap out of anyone.
wrong, the first firearm existed in china (only in china) around the 12th century, and the common firearm, a prototype of the musket or the hand gun existed in asia, and later adopted too europe
You do realise how difficult it is to actually decapitate someone right? Simply yanking on the chain like that is unlikely to be anywhere near enough force. Even full force axe blows sometimes aren't enough.
ok I was looking for movie clips, I had no idea this was a real weapon
think about it... do you really think this was a "real" weapon. it's nonsense. it's just for the movies. completely impractical - anyone who tried to use this in battle would get slaughtered.
@@steved4677 you clearly didn’t watch the documentary on this. It’s called “the master of the flying guillotine”.
I'm just as surprised as you
@@steved4677 It's meant for assasinations. It's not a weapon for the battlefield.
It took this man 30 years to figure out, "I can drop a bag on someone's head?"
100 percent this was used as a means of execution. Throwing this cumbersome shit at a moving target is just preposterous
Tell that to the master of the flying guillotine!
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@@heinrichze-france4089 yeah man! Great kung fo movie, one of my favorites.
But yeah I dont think this was a real weapon, if it was used at all it would have been for executions.
@NUHH it's a very unrealistic weapon in the heat of combat. I believe it's to slow unwieldy and difficult to be accurate with, in addition trying to hit a moving target, because we both know no one will be stationary when that is thrown at them. They would likely parry or block and counter with an actual weapon like sword or spear. It's not impossible but very impractical, and as we know if a weapon isn't effective it will not survive.
Yeah, I have a feeling they might have used this to take the heads of enemy leaders in a cleaner way than execution by sword would have been.
The problem being that it's particularly hard to cut through that much tissue and bone with a blade, whereas a pulley driven mechanism like this would probably be able to achieve a complete beheading by making smaller cuts at multiple angles around the neck simultaneously. (think if it like cutting a tree branch with a machete vs loppers or shears. The shears tend to to a better and more immediate job)
This weapon works 99% of the time in movies....
Movies featuring the this thing if you'd like to see more:
Flying Guillotine
Mastter of the Flying Guillotine
The Vengeful Beauty
Flying Guillotine II (AKA Palace Carnage)
Fatal Flying Guillotines
The Heroic Trio
The Kug Fu Master
The Machine Girl
The Boondocks episode "Stinkmeaner 3: the Hateocracy" (disguised as a lobster trap)
The fact that you mentioned The Boondocks episode with the guillotine warms my heart! Rest in peace John Witherspoon!
Boondocks is exactly the reason why I end up here xD
Ah yes niggasynthesis
Master of the flying gullition is a masterpiece stil love it
wear a wide brimed hat problem solved
iconocast lol
Chinese Warlord: Allow me to introduce my invincible army, all masters of the flying guillotine!
Me: Allow me to introduce my army, all wearing sombreros.
seems more like something you'd put on a captured enemy to gain information through extortion. as it does seem rather clumsy when wielded.
It seems a completely impractical weapon. If it were a real device, i expect that it would be without the stupid bag/hat bit on top. The bag/hat would flop around,as it is only loosely attached, adding too much instability to throw the device accurately. Without the bag/hat it would be more like doing a ring toss, and much more effective. But that just gets it around someones neck.
The other problem I perceive with it is getting the collar blades to close with sufficient force to decapitate. Just pulling the chain probably would be unlikely to generate enough force to close the blades, forcing them through both meat and bone. At least not without yanking the target completely off his feet. A more likely mechanism for a functioning "flying guillotine" would have the blades rigged to very strong springs and pinned open with a latch, such that when the chain was pulled the blades snap shut with great force in a manner not unlike a mousetrap, or possibly one of those ridiculous devices from SAW. With sufficiently sharp blades and strong enough springs, you could possibly cut someones head off.
This is just my analysis, please don't try to make your own head removing appliance based on my description.
EggFooYung actually i think you gave me the perfect zombie weapon design.
EggFooYung There's another problem: Do you know how tough it is to cut a human bones. Bones (particularly human bones) are hard to break, you need a lot of physic forces to cut through them. Even at a morgue/autopsy lab, the doctor that do autopsy have to used a specialized saw to cut through bones and they're not easy. So I can rule out this weapon ability to cut head. This flying guillotines' blade doesn't have the same force to cut off people head like the European one. The only thing the "flying guillotine" is just sliting a person's carotid artery and the person would died from massive blood loss rather then losing a head.
+Michael Do
Yet katanas which require a flick motion rather then brute strength can chop a persons hand or head off.
toomanyaccounts Are you sure about that. The human bone is very hard to cut. If Katana can cut it easily then medical examiners and pathologists should replace bone cutting saw with Katana.
+toomanyaccounts
Notice what I said about how you use the katana? It takes years of practice with it to be able to cut objects such as wood or if you are a guiness book of world records holder for katana feats a steel pipe without the katana shattering. search youtube and you will see katanas being used to cut bones in half. bones are a lot more brittle then people think. its after death that the bones calcify and become hard.
Team Fortress 2 brought me here.
So now when someone says "bring me his head" you dont have to get close to the body - just use this awesome weapon device.
Me a barbarian laughing with my broad sword all 4 men are now cut in half
"Listen, you have to stay there and dont move. So I will throw it on to yur head ok?"
"Ok lets do it."
I think it may be less for throwing and more for retrieval. Get in close, place or drop in quickly, then pull while running. Seems a lot more simple to me.
So deadly, even the Heavens won’t allow it!
So this is where jumpsteady got the album title and art from
they had to get a "kung fu master" to throw a heavy frisbee with some razor blades on it.
Yes, and this surprised you? I guess you'd get a baby elephant to prove tight ropes can be really be walked by anyone. GTFOH idiot
If it did exist it was probably a novel method of execution rather than being used in combat cs it clearly isn't usable that way.
Chinese turn anything "unwieldy" into an art form and practical.
I thought it was only a movie. I can´t believe it existed!
Very cool concept, but i feel that relying on other typical simple assassination weapons such as poison darts, knives and stuff is better and more versatile.
+Hetzerogeneous
This for the time was long range if thrown from a balcony or upper floor and you got the head to show you did the job. Those other tools you gotta get up close and work at sawing the head off for your prize.
darts... you don't have to sneak up close.
+Hetzerogeneous but you need the head to get a reward for the assasination right?
But you still have to go through the effort of lopping off the head. :P Guillotine is supposed to be a two birds with one stone sorta deal.
Let's be honest here... you can build immunities to poison. Knives don't always strike vital organs, and leave you perfectly exposed when you use them at their most effective close-range. Guns have a little tendency to run out of ammo, flamethrowers out of fuel, and bombs are pricey and imprecise. To a master of the fatal flying guillotine, these weaknesses can and do mean the difference between the glory of total victory and an undignified end. In the hands of a properly schooled imperial assassin, the blood dripper had no weaknesses; any man within 100 steps would be left 100% dead. There is a reason this weapon is known to be the ultimate kung-fu killer.
and so the entire enemy army started wearing hats.
There is also a legend that the Yongzheng Emperor was murdered by Liu Siniang to avenge her father or grandfather.
If this weapon existed before it appeared in 1976's Master of the Flying Guillotine, I will eat my hat.
Lol
Alexa Albright-Kelley if it existed befor 1976 ill eat my own ass
In China, the hat eats YOU...
you know 1976's Master of the Flying Guillotine is the unofficial sequel to the 1974's Flying Guillotine...so yes, it appeared before 1976...so i guess you have to eat your hat and Nason has to eat his own ass.
@@Zargon31 Wrong. Master is the sequel to One Armed Boxer.
Just saw this weapon as the subject of a Mythbusters experiment roughly an hour ago. Although Tory's version of the Flying Guillotine wasn't exactly like the one in this vid, it did seem plausible for use as an assassin's weapon, but not so much as a weapon for direct combat due to the difficulty of getting the Guillotine around the target's neck in the first place. o.o
I want one for my collection of balisongs, nunchakus, and singing bowls. Where do I find one, or learn how to make one?
My watch is ticking waiting for the moment. Shoulda stayed home.
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No, because it's terribly inefficient if it is. Why have an eight foot long chain and a heavy metal blade, net, and cap when a sword would work just as well, if not better?
Imagine being the guy who tries to use this and misses. It bounces off the enemy's head. "Whoops. Sorry!"
By the time you make your 13th attempt, your enemy would have you already dead, and he has returned home, had dinner, and is ready for bed.
The meteor hammer and rope dart are similar but more effective weapons.
I read somewhere than it was use for assassin, but only in some situation example : the target is sit on a chair under a tree and the assasin is in the tree, so they can drop and not throwing the guillotine on the head with that they can be able to escape fastly with the head of the noble or victim to prove their contract.
I'm not sure about that, cause it's really look unefficient if people throw it but it maybe a theory to explore.
It’s funny someone got a Chinese dude to throw that thing… it’s ridiculous
That's the weapon that killed Bushido Brown in 2010.
@raffel63
The Flying Guillotine cannot decapitate. The blades simply injure and constrain the target.
I would imagine the most important part of such a weapon would be its effect of blinding the target and preventing the target from putting up much of a fight without digging the blades deeper.
That said, the impracticality of such a weapon is clear. The Flying Guillotine was likely never actually used.
I could imagine using this to apprehend someone or painfully execute someone. 2 guys grab his arms and the 3rd puts this over his head
Im looking for a gullitine choke but i think i like this a lil more😂
Does it can execute very well during war?
I have searched everywhere for a replica or weapon but they simply don't exist.and those that possess them aren't selling.
Lessons to learn before using this weapon. 1:00 after 3 attempts you might cut the non moving targets nose off. Lesson 2 is around the 2 minute mark which is....have a conveniently placed trampoline in order to front flip over your enemy while placing this on his head. Hopefully he doesn't have a raiden hat on or it won't fit. Lesson 3 is if you are going to assassinate someone do it from 20 feet away on the second story and play ring toss with his head instead of shooting an arrow into him. Man this makes so much sense now. Lesson 4 is national graphics cgi sucks as bad as this weapon.
Geographic I meant
***** Not sure how to take that comment
Personally, I believe the weapon has been used in the past for select assasination attempts, but was never publicised, mass produced, or carried on throughout history due to it's fleeting "effectiveness". While it's plausible it may have been in use in the past, or at least something that would imitate this, it is doubtfull that the weapon stayed in use long enough to go down in history. I mean, take the Ninento "power glove" for example in this respect, it is also a highly impractical tool, but yet it had been produced anyways in an (relatively failed) attempt to revolutionize gaming.
The flying guillotine does have one major weakness. The chain/rope used to control it. Dodge it and you can cut, grab, or tangle up the cord. You could then either immobilize it or use it against its wielder.
Guilotine lands on head.
Victim grabs the chain and pulls in the opposite direction.
Ninja falls out of rafters.
3:49
The dumbest moment in National Geographic history
The physics checks out.
@@choppingguitar 😂
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Shua hwat hai Liang tong shen wei ge zhao ze fong luh meiyo. wo bu zhidao
@@choppingguitar oh shit Ancient Chinese made them :O
Iy was probably used as an simple execution device instead of a weapon.
Why is there even a cap or curtain? What not just have the bottom part of the collar, and toss the ring with blades onto a person's head like a throwing ring at a carnival?
+Jacob Bielski To collect the head, likely for evidence of assassination of a specific individual (for the monetary reward).
Thank you, Quan if I may add that many times the assassins life depended on proving the target was dead so that his life was not taken if he failed to kill his target by his master.
Ahh...lila teuink atuh boy...kaburu kabur musuhna Ge
I can't believe this flying Guillotine is real in real life that is crazy
it's only real insofar as someone built one. it was not a "real" weapon at any point in time. it's completely impractical. only useful in fantasy movies
I really wonder if those movies didn’t come out if we would even be debating if it were real
I made my own as a kid using a lamp shade attached with a rope!
flying guillotine & sandman make a good combo
i dont know, but there's just better and more effective weapons out there to be using like a normal sword or bow and arrows. this weapon doesnt seem very useful
You need to preserve and retrieve the head and face to prove you have the bounty.
Honestly, most people don't know what it is when they see it. So you can you walk near a dude with this and put it on his head and you would have his head in a bag in one stroke.
@@Gongolongo you sound like you believe everything you see in the movies mate
@@cyborgchicken3502 To be fair what he said would make sense considering there's probably very few of these things ever made. I think its wishful thinking but not impossible, I'm sure there's some crazy motherfucker that got this thing to work, even if it was lamely putting it on someone's head.
Its actually also featured in fatal kombat
so you can retrieve the head stealthily
I think the flying guillotine did exist, but only as a tool for assassination and not like the ones from the movies.
HOLY SHIT DUDE YOU ARE 102 YRS OLD
can you tell me about WW1 because WW2 got all the spot light
I don't think anybody would be afraid of that if they had a sword, given how ackward and ineffective it is.
As someone who has done martial arts all her life, and is in a family full of defence personnel, I cannot imagine anything this impractical being used. Fighters are practical. They risk their own safety. You use the most practical and efficient method available. There were numerous, far more efficient methods of assassination available back then. Any self respecting fighter would use one of those. Legendary fighters, and those from folklore, on the other hand, use things that are weird and flashy. This is likely where it came from.
No shit
I saw the myth busters struggle to make a flying guillotine, why couldn't they have used this one?
That was my first thought, but then if there was a bounty out for some one or the king literally wanted there heads. Then that is the only reason I can think of for the existence of this.
If this existed it would've been used exclusively for torture or executions. Even the existence of the iron maiden is debated, many of these things were made as novelties only.
This could be used as they dont want to touch the prisoner... and its just used for that purpose
on another note, I agree with YBKP
this weapon is very difficult to use on those who are AWARE of it. But let's think practically about how this weapon should be used. Wouldn't it make the most sense to use this as an assassination tool rather than a melee weapon? i can picture an assassin snatching someone's head off and escaping with the quickness and speed Ezio Auditore would use in an assassination.
By the way WHEN is Ubisoft going to set an Assassin's Creed game in FEUDAL JAPAN or Shaolin China? There are so many weapons and the settings are perfect for an Assassin's Creed game.
Only way this can kill from what i can see is if you manage to quickly put it on, make them trip over then you go and fall onto a lower area making the sudden force be put on the blades to try and decap the opponent.
This's why I believe a more plausible flying guillotine design would simply be a short, broad bladed, double-headed axe attached to the end of a long chain; it'd just be a lot less complicated and tedious than this weird hat thing here.
It doesn't need to decapitate to kill, nor to fly to be used.if it did exist i dout that it was more then a hat used for sneaking in and assassinating a target. Whether it actually decapitate someone or just cut away all the flesh summarily killing them and perhaps making it easier to just yank the head off is a question.
Not really ultimate kung fu killer, but the most badass yes
Quite possibly the most inefficient weapon ever devised.
Of course this guy couldn't get it to work properly, only a MASTER of the Flying Guillotine can make it work!
And Crabmeiser
I believe this was probably some kind a prototype that looks good on deign, but never actually worked. Its much easier to throw a poison dagger or shank a dude.
I want one of these.
Why? Isn't that the most dangerous weapon in the world besides guns, like pistols, rifles, and rocket launchers?
The design is too bulky on top. The Red one in “Master of the flying guillotine” is much more sleek .
I am sorry, but when u have a range of weapons to choose from, in what universe u gonna be like “hey I am gonna use that thing”
I think this episode side by side with the Mythbusters is an interesting contrast.
Will be wild if this thing was ever used
What show is this from?
IMO: This weapon was used as a secondary tool used AFTER the oppenent was down. I do know that Samurais from Japan valued the possession of their opponents head... Could the Chinese have a value of it as well?
this was never a real weapon
Not sure why this weapon couldn't be simplified by just removing the mask part so that it ends up being just the ring with the blades. That way it ends up being almost a game of horseshoe or throwing a chakra around an enemy's neck.
@raffel63 seems rather unpractical for a standard executing device i would say
They made a new flying guillotine movie, apparently it needs electromagnets and nanotechnology to work
they may use it in the death penalty or execution.. or tricks to kill the emperor because its appearance of that weapon is like a crown or hat. maybe this weapon used by Bounty hunter or Assassins
If these were thrown at enemies in a tight formation they might work since that will give the best chance of actually landing on someones head and that will be very low probably like a 5% chance and thats being to generous. But the ones that do hit will be a great moral breaker imagine walking towards the enemy in tight formation and one of these things land on the head of a guy next to you and he is decapitated that will put a lot of fear someone.If this was how they were used they would of been one shot weapons since getting them back would be impossible.
Maybe you would drop this on a targets head from a balcony/roof?
Seems more like a torture device than a weapon of mass murder.
obviously its going to be hard to get it on a guy's head if you're doing kung fu flips throught the air
I would just run up to the guy and put it on his head Skyrim style
Ninjas probably got these from the emperor and were forced to use them like when you get a new software upgrade you can't fucking stand.
With enough training and discipline anything is possible. What would any of you know you weren't exactly there to witness this yourself?
So it really does exist, I thought it was just some Japanese urban legend, and I only remember seeing this on boondocks being used by lord Rufus crabmiser
Dont move and let me get my trampoline !!!
Lol does anyone else think it looks like a UFO when they show the silhouette flying through the air?
it seems like it would be more practical for transporting prisoners than using it for assassination
now what is the practicality of this? it seems to be the most impractical weapon I have heard of.
its so you get to keep the head. so assassins can prove to the contractor he made the correct kill.
......heads don't disappear when you cut them off with other weapons. just pick it up after it falls off.
but this is suppose to a ranged weapon that can collect heads
oooooo! a couple more yards at the most!
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better then trying to behead someone up close
More likely it was used when the victim is already captured or in a fight when it is forcibly placed onto the victim and used immediately. Just seeing someone with this weapon could scare the crap out of anyone.
it's a cool idea, but it's one of those hypothetical weapons that doesnt work in reality
wrong, the first firearm existed in china (only in china) around the 12th century, and the common firearm, a prototype of the musket or the hand gun existed in asia, and later adopted too europe
don't you have any objections with this?
You do realise how difficult it is to actually decapitate someone right? Simply yanking on the chain like that is unlikely to be anywhere near enough force. Even full force axe blows sometimes aren't enough.
It's real?
Ultimate Kung Fu weapon? What about a throwing knife? (Kunai)
The movie is from 1976
This weapon is real? 😮
one my fav films