''Weapon Masters'' is a television show that was premiered on the
Discovery Channel
Discovery Channel, known as The Discovery Channel from 1985 to 1995, and often referred to as simply Discovery, is an American cable channel that is best known for its ongoing reality television shows and promotion of pseudoscience.
It init ...
on December 31, 2007, and on the
Military Channel
The American Forces Network (AFN) is a government television and radio broadcast service the United States Armed Forces provides to soldiers stationed or assigned overseas, and is headquartered at Fort Meade in Maryland. AFN comprises two sub ...
.
The hosts, Chad Houseknecht and
Mike Loades
Mike Loades is a British writer, television presenter, director, and military historian.
Career
As a television presenter/host he is best known for the BBC series' '' Time Commanders'' (2003-2005) and '' Weapons That Made Britain'' (2004) for ...
, a weapons historian, choose a different historical weapon each week. While Loades explores its history — often traveling to the country from which it came to interview modern practitioners — Houseknecht capers about, gibbering and gurning, while attempting to improve on it using modern technology (for example, a
pneumatic
Pneumatics (from Greek 'wind, breath') is the use of gas or pressurized air in mechanical systems.
Pneumatic systems used in Industrial sector, industry are commonly powered by compressed air or compressed inert gases. A centrally located a ...
device was added to a
blowgun
A blowgun (also called a blowpipe or blow tube) is a simple ranged weapon consisting of a long narrow tube for shooting light projectiles such as darts. It operates by having the projectile placed inside the pipe and using the force created by ...
in one episode). At the end of each episode a challenge test of the new version is held.
Episodes
*Source:
** Ep.1 (Roman Scorpion)
** Ep.2 (Greek Fire)
** Ep.3 (Dueling Pistols)
** Ep.4 (Atlatl)
** Ep.5 (Katana)
** Ep.6 (Repeating Crossbow)
** Ep.7 (Rockets)
** Ep.8 (Chakram)
** Ep.9 (Chariot Bow)
** Ep.10 (Blowpipe)
References
External links
''Weapon Masters'' on the Military Channel*
Discovery Channel original programming
Television shows about weaponry
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