Kunai

"KUNAI throwing daggers offer a silent alternative to the traditional sidearm. Perfect for assassins."

- In-Game Description

The Kunai is a throwing weapon for the secondary slot, released in Update 8. It has a signifigant DPS, but can be hard to aim with.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Silent.
 * Innate armor pierce.
 * Infested runners don't explode on death when killed by this weapon.
 * Can hit multiple enemies in a short line. (Caused by flying dead bodies and not the kunai)
 * Very fast reload speed (about 0.8 seconds).
 * Crafted by easily obtainable items.
 * Staggers non-heavy Grineer units and infested chargers on every hit.
 * Fast fire rate (About one every 3/4 seconds.)
 * The arc of the shots enable headshots over cover.
 * Two  polarity slots. (Ideal for Hornet Strike and Barrel Diffusion for maximum damage.)
 * Is not affected by Bullet Attractor (General Sargas Ruk's power)
 * Can pass througs enemies' Electric Shield.

Disadvantages:
 * Has travel time, unsuitable for long distances.
 * Stagger can make it awkward to lay multiple hits on a target at long range.
 * Shoots in an arc, making it difficult for use at long range.
 * While you are holding this weapon, your slide slash does not get speed boost.
 * Cannot score a critical hit.
 * Blueprint requires excessive amounts of common resources. (Debateable)

Acquisition
The Kunai can be purchased for  175 and the blueprint for 15,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Make sure to adjust throw flight for moving targets.
 * Unlike bolt-type weapons, enemies killed by the Kunai will not be impaled to walls, but will travel a short distance, damaging those that are hit by the dead enemy body.
 * When used in stealth mode one shots Grineer, when Grineer are alerted takes 2knives to kill.(needs testing on infested/corpus)
 * When using at a distance aim above the enemy for maximum effect.

Trivia

 * The kunai was conventionally wrought in ranges from 20 cm to 60 cm, with the average at 40 cm. The kunai was used by common folk as multi-purpose gardening tools and by workers of stone and masonry. The kunai is not a knife, but something more akin to a crowbar. The blade was soft iron and unsharpened because the edges were used to smash plaster and wood, to dig holes and to pry. Normally only the tip would have been sharpened. The uses to which a kunai was put would have destroyed any heat-treated and sharpened tool like a knife. See more at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kunai