Ring Bayonet is a Technology and type of bayonet in Empire: Total War. This long blade has a ring which fits around the outside of a musket barrel, allowing the weapon to be fired while it is attached. The ring bayonet serves to turn a musket into a short, and rather heavy, pike.

Ring Bayonet is a Technology and type of bayonet in Empire: Total War. This long blade has a ring which fits around the outside of a musket barrel, allowing the weapon to be fired while it is attached.

A bayonet (from Old French bayonette, now spelt baïonnette) is a knife, dagger, sword, or spike-shaped melee weapon designed to be mounted on the end of the barrel of a rifle, carbine, musket or similar long firearm, allowing the gun to be used as an improvised spear in close combat. [1]

Instead, Ring Bayonets improve upon Plug Bayonets by enabling a regiment to carry fixed bayonets throughout the course of a battle while still allowing the regiment to fire. This means that all regiments equipped with Ring Bayonets carry the same +3 to melee attack that was provided formerly when Plug Bayonets were fixed in battle.

The ring bayonet serves to turn a musket into a short, and rather heavy, pike. This is considerably more threatening to enemies than using the weapon as a clumsy club in a hand-to-hand fight. The bayonet is a push fit, and it is the tightness of the ring around the bayonet that keeps it in place, most of the time.

2011年1月7日 · Secured to a lug/sight atop the muzzle by a zigzag slot, a butterfly screw or a spring-loaded catch, socket bayonets predominated on battlefields through the 1840s. Over the next half century, sword or knife bayonets eclipsed the socket type, as soldiers could wield such bayonets independent of their other weapons.

In the late 17th Century experiments were carried out to address this problem and the short- lived "ring bayonet" was born. This was affixed to the barrel by two rings, but seems not to have found favour and was replaced shortly after by the socket bayonet - a …

Historical information on introduction of the socket bayonet locking ring and its development. The earliest socket bayonets, like the ca. 1715 Long Shank Dutch/Liege Socket Bayonet pictured at right, had a simple I-mortise that engaged a bayonet mounting stud on top of the musket barrel.

2010年9月16日 · The ring of a ring bayonet just fits over the barrel, presumably with some device to stop it slipping back when jabbed into an enemy's stomach. This I presume allows the user the choice of fitting his bayonet to the left, right, or below the barrel, but it wouldn't necessarily stay that way when applying the recommended twist as it is jabbed in.

This is a really lovely example of one of the rarer US saber bayonets of the Antebellum period, the US Model 1841 Type I Saber Bayonet, often called “Ring Bayonets” by the Ordnance Department during the period and better known to collectors and historian as the Snell Bayonet.