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"Indo-Persian weaponry" were weapons (artillery, swords, etc.) that were employed, and/or manufactured in Persia, the Ottoman Empire, India and other nearby countries. Pages in category "Indo-Persian weaponry"
The word comes from the Old Persian word asabāra (from asa- and bar, a frequently used Achaemenid military technical term). [citation needed] The various other renderings of the word are the following: Parthian asbār (spelt spbr or SWSYN), Middle Persian aswār (spelt ʼswbʼl or SWSYA), Classical Persian suwār (سوار), uswār/iswār (اسوار), Modern Persian savār (سوار).
Panjagān was either a projectile weapon or an archery technique used by the late military of Sasanian Persia, by which a volley of five arrows was shot. [1] No examples of the device have survived, but it is alluded to by later Islamic authors, [2] in particular, in their description of the Persian conquest of Yemen, where the application of the unknown panjagan was supposedly the deciding ...
The Persian shield-bearers were further equipped with short spears to increase their effectiveness. [ 2 ] The Sparabara were taken from the full members of Persian society, they were trained from childhood to be soldiers and when not called out to fight on campaigns in distant lands they practised hunting on the vast plains of Persia .
Although the name has been associated by popular etymology with the city of Shamshir (which in turn means "curved like the lion's claw" in Persian) [4] the word has been used to mean "sword" since ancient times, as attested by Middle Persian shamshir (Pahlavi šmšyl), and the Ancient Greek σαμψήρα / sampsēra (glossed as "foreign sword").
The Achaemenid Persian Army. Montvert. ISBN 1-874101-00-0 "Light Infantry", special issue of Ancient Warfare, 2/1 (2008) Sekunda, Nicholas V (1988). Achaemenid Military Terminology. In Archaeologische Mitteilungen aus Iran. Band 21. Sekunda, Nicholas (1992). The Persian army 560-330 BC. Elite Series. London: Osprey. ISBN 978-1-85532-250-9.
The tabar (also called tabarzin, which means "saddle axe" [in persian], Persian: تبر) is a type of battle axe. The term tabar is used for axes originating from the Ottoman Empire, Persia, India and surrounding countries and cultures. the word tabar is also used in most Slavic languages as the word for axe [1] (e.g. Russian: топор).
The scythed chariot was a modified war chariot. The blades extended horizontally for about 1 m (3 ft 3 in) to each side of the wheels. The Greek general Xenophon (430−354 BC), an eyewitness at the battle of Cunaxa, tells of them: "These had thin scythes extending at an angle from the axles and also under the driver's seat, turned toward the ground".