Do melee combat skills matter if today's fights practically use guns and explosives all the time?

Question

Do melee combat skills matter if today's fights practically use guns and explosives all the time?

Answer 1

why, they do not.

melee combat skills are great, though

Answer 2

Explosives??? What, are you fighting bikers?

Answer 3

Melee skills matter a lot to an extent. It is primarily used for street defense where people don't instantly shoot you, they threaten you to take you stuff and stick a gun to your body. There you can use what you practiced as self defense. In the battlefield, though, there's when the line "The best defense is a great offense" really comes to play. If you are trying to defend yourself using melee then it's highly doubtful you'll survive because most soldiers don't give 2 squats about your life, because they are trying to defend theirs.

Melee can also be used in your average bullying problems, sometimes even gangs because most of them don't even know how to hold a gun properly and actually kill people unless you're dealing with a mafia. Highly doubtful you may win but there's always a chance. Even if you hold a gun, it isn't easy to aim and shoot, it's just like throwing haymakers for the average joe, you're just trying to get lucky with the shots you give.

Melee plays a big part in combat because we're not all gonna be using weapons everyday. Hope this helped.

Answer 4

Melee combat skills probably are not going to help you if your in a fight with explosives or guns. Also, melee combat like on tv and movies isnt anything like real life fighting. That stuff is all practiced and done many times until its gotten right. If you wanna be a good fighter just being strong, fast, and quick thinking is pretty much enough. If your fast and quick thinking in a gun battle though, that would probably be an advantage.

Answer 5

So you've had a lot of combat experience then? Or are you basing your information on the latest release of Halo??

If it wasn't necessary AND effective, combat troops wouldn't train in the techniques. Get a clue, get off the couch, and get a life...

Answer 6

Guns and explosives? Have you ever been in a real fight or are you getting your ''information'' from movies? Unarmed fighting (lol melee) is still incredibly important for self defence.....after all, whats gonna happen when that stick of dynamite you carry around ''just in case'' doesn't go off?