Melee weapons - weapons designed to hit a target (human, animal, target), using human muscle power.
By construction, is usually the simplest and serves mainly to hand combat. As a separate subspecies, a cold steel projectile (or projectile) of the type represented by the bow, crossbow, slingshot, sling, etc.
GOST R 51215-98 "Cold Steel Terms and Definitions"
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3 Types of knives
3.1 Contact (cold) Weapons: Melee Weapons, retained in the application in hand
3.2 Methane (cold) weapons (Ndp. Cold missile weapon): Melee weapon hit the target at a distance when throwing hand.
03.03 bladed (cold) Weapons: Melee Weapons, which has a combat unit in the form of a blade (blades), firmly and immovably connected to the handle.
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3.4 punch (cold) Weapons: Melee weapons, military part of which is a concentrated mass
3.5 drevkovoye (cold) Weapons: Melee weapons, military part of which is firmly and immovably fastened to a pole.
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3.6 chopping (cold) Weapons: Melee weapons, military part of which forms the blade chopped damage.
3.7 cutting (cold) weapons: Melee Weapons, military part of which forms the cutting edge of the damage.
3.8 stabbing (cold) Weapons: Melee weapons, military part of which forms the edge of the stab injury.
3.9 piercing-cutting (cold) Weapons: Melee Weapons, which forms part of the battle stab injury.
3.10 cut-and-cutting (cold) Weapons: Melee Weapons, which forms part of the battle RUB-cutting damage.
3.11 shock breaks up (cold) Weapons: Melee Weapons, which forms part of the military crushing of soft tissue crush injury or fracture bones.