Focus on this artwork and explore the Bulat steel.
Mikhail Fonotov wrote in his book Native Olden Times (Russian: Родная старина): A knife blade? Yes, there was the bulat blade. And then there was the tank's armored steel.
 And then there was the rocket steel.
 And then there was a nuclear shield.
 Anosov. Korolyov. Kurchatov."
When the Russian people say Anosov, they think of bulat steel.Bulat steel weapons are legendary; the novelist Sir Walter Scott described competitions in agility between King Richard the Lionheart and the Sultan Saladin with damask steel blades. Arabs were said to use blades which were flexible enough to wrap around the waist and yet hard and sharp so that a falling silk scarf could be cut by an unmoving damask blade.
Bulat is one of the most interesting mysteries of metallurgical history; there are still many methods of bulat and damask blade production in Arabia and India that are unknown, and have been lost.Some scientists argue that Anosov rediscovered the secret of the production of bulat steel. Anosov's bulat steel was able to reproduce the flexibility, but the hardness was lacking. In the 20th century, Soviet scientists achieved the appropriate hardness of the steel, but its flexibility did not equal that achieved by Anosov's methods.
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