| Aegis Combat System | ... rovide additional capabilities, such as long range Tomahawk missiles or the | , and also protect the carrier from attack. A typical Strike Group may inc ... |
| Stinger | ... fire anti-tank missiles, and Hydra 70 general-purpose unguided rockets. The | and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and the AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radi ... |
| STRIX | Short range weapons offered include Carl-Gustaf, AT4/AT4 CS, | and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS 15 |
| Kh-29 | ... t Venezuela acquired: 200 laser guided bombs types KAB-500 and KAB-1500, 50 | air-to-surface missiles, 50 Kh-31A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 Kh-59ME TV-guid ... |
| Science Based Stockpile Stewardship Program | # Not compromise US national security because the | serves as a means for maintaining current US nuclear capabilities without ... |
| Davy Crockett Weapon System | ... etween 10 tons and 1 kiloton of TNT. The W54 nuclear device was used in the | |
| Wasserfall | ... s were several sophisticated radio, wire, or radar guided missiles like the | rocket. Due to the severe war situation for Germany all of those systems w ... |
| Brownings | ... r its first flights, P5212 later carried an armament of 12 .303 in (7.7 mm) | , set in groups of six in each outer wing panel; this was the armament fit ... |
| AK-103 | Then in 2006 the country purchased 100,000 Russian | assault rifles, all delivered in that same year. Chavez also claimed to ha ... |
| Britney Spears | ... kthrough of teen pop in the late 1990s. Other Female Teen Pop stars such as | , Christina Aguilera and Jessica Simpson then also became very popular at ... |
| Durendal | Durandal or | most often refers the legendary sword of the French hero Roland |
| M197 | ... ve fire system before the adoption of the M97 Universal Turret mounting the | cannon |
| Model 1897 | ... a series of rifles and shotguns, most notably the Winchester Model 1887 and | shotguns, the falling block single shot Model 1885, and the lever-action M ... |
| FIM-43 Redeye | ... not until mid-1975. Production of the FIM-92A began in 1978 to replace the | . An improved Stinger with a new seeker, the FIM-92B, was produced from 19 ... |
| Carl-Gustaf | Short range weapons offered include | , AT4/AT4 CS, STRIX and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 2 ... |
| M48 | ... 113 APC), 930 M113s (APC/ACAVs), 120 V-100s (wheeled armored cars), and 190 | tanks; however on the , a US effort in November 1972 managed to transfer 5 ... |
| AR-15 | ... t readily convertible. For example, the internal lower receiver of civilian | rifles is milled differently and has a much smaller cavity than that of th ... |
| M4 cannon | ... rly a century with armed forces across the world in a variety of roles. The | , a 37mm autocannon, was initially designed by Browning in 1921, and enter ... |
| M77 | Sturm, Ruger offered several | Mark II Frontier rifles in stainless steel in various chamberings from var ... |
| Luger | ... nd magazine capacity; almost twice that of contemporary designs such as the | or Mauser 1910. The pistol is often referred to as an HP (for "Hi-Power" o ... |
| AT4/AT4 CS | Short range weapons offered include Carl-Gustaf, | , STRIX and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS ... |
| Sword bayonet | ... Mk III, was introduced on 26 January 1907, along with a Pattern 1907 (P'07) | and featured a simplified rear sight arrangement and a fixed, rather than ... |
| original Gundam | ... ns with different designs and coloring (with most following Kunio Okawara's | design). Producer Masahiko Asano wrote in his notes on the production of S ... |
| Winchester Model 1887 | ... h Winchester and designed a series of rifles and shotguns, most notably the | and Model 1897 shotguns, the falling block single shot Model 1885, and the ... |
| M48 Patton series | Tanks of the ROK Army include the older | , as well as the more recent K1, K1A1 which bear a 120 mm smooth-bore gun ... |
| Leclerc | ... d T-80UD and T-84 with nearly the power of the gas-turbine tank. The French | MBT's diesel powerplant features the "Hyperbar" hybrid supercharging syste ... |
| AK-105 | ... in these roles, but has been augmented by various submachine guns, and the | . It is also commonly used by law enforcement; for example, each urban pol ... |
| W54 | ... everal different types of lightweight nuclear devices. The main one was the | , a cylinder 40 by 60 cm (about 16 by 24 inches) that weighed 68 kg (150 l ... |
| Ishapore 2A1 rifle | ... y units and police forces. Indian police officers carrying SMLE Mk III* and | s were a familiar sight throughout railway stations in India after the Mum ... |
| Sandia National Laboratories | ... e known as the Livermore Valley Open Campus (LVOC) would be created between | /California campus and LLNL to promote greater collaboration between the w ... |
| T-90 | ... . Russia has stopped production of the T-80 in favour of the diesel-powered | (based on the T-72), while Ukraine has developed the diesel-powered T-80UD ... |
| M79 grenade launcher | ... had provided the ARVN with 793,994 M1 carbines 640,000 M-16 rifles, 34,000 | s, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks, 214 M41 Walker Bulldog light ... |
| SUU-23/A | ... od versions, the SUU-16/A (also designated M12 by the US Army) and improved | (US Army M25), were developed in the 1960s, often used on gunless versions ... |
| Aegis | ... ts such as night vision goggles, rangefinders, the SPY-1 radar used in some | equipped warships, and the propulsion system of Arleigh Burke-class destro ... |
| M2 | ... ctually quite competent. Their smaller tactical needs were filled with four | .50 caliber machine guns linked together (known as the "Quad Fifty"), whic ... |
| HK G36 | ... on 14 (Batalón de Infantería Paracaidista Nro 14) exclusively employ German | s |
| Model 1894 | ... block single shot Model 1885, and the lever-action Model 1886, Model 1892, | and Model 1895 rifles, most of which are still in production today in some ... |
| AR-15 | ... eservist rifles for such purposes was approved in 1998. Popular weapons are | and semiautomatic variants of AK-47 and Finnish RKs, such as RK-92S and a ... |
| M2 Browning machine gun | ... tandard side arm of the Australian, British, and Canadian armed forces. The | , the timeless .50 caliber "Ma-Deuce", which was developed in 1918, entere ... |
| S-60 | ... , forty-five MT-12 100 mm anti-tank guns; and thirty ZU-23 23 mm and twelve | 57 mm air defense guns. Moldova has received some arms from former Soviet ... |
| Titan rockets | ... t the U.S. Air Force's SM-65 Atlas missile. It was the first in a series of | , but was unique among them in that it used LOX and RP-1 as its propellant ... |
| cannon | ... dive bombing. In the fighter role, the bomb bay was fitted with four 20 mm | s |
| MGM-51 Shillelagh | ... cult to lead moving targets. In response, the gun was also designed to fire | anti-tank missiles. The low launch velocity against longer-ranged targets ... |
| tomahawk | ... line, encouraging the team to score, but over time, the gesture imitated a | swinging down. Traditionally, the Seminole seldom used tomahawks. Before c ... |
| T-72 | ... d production of the T-80 in favour of the diesel-powered T-90 (based on the | ), while Ukraine has developed the diesel-powered T-80UD and T-84 with nea ... |
| Pattern 1853 Enfield | ... moured use of tallow (from cows) and lard (pig fat) in the newly introduced | rifle cartridges. Soldiers had to bite the cartridges with their teeth bef ... |
| M72 LAW | ... again on the night of October 21–22 and heavily damaged a missile boat with | rockets. During one of the raids, the commandos also blew up the port's ma ... |
| AGM-114 Hellfire | ... ems were integrated and tested during this time, including the laser-guided | missile. The missile's development had began in 1974 |
| Skysweeper | ... aircraft. Despite this, US efforts continued into the 1950s with the 75 mm | system, an almost fully automated system including the radar, computers, p ... |
| M50 Ontos | ... icles already mounted only ATGMs, or alternately recoilless rifles like the | , but these typically had limited utility in the infantry support role, or ... |
| Sandia National Laboratories | ... ar weapons is undertaken. The others are Los Alamos National Laboratory and | |
| Molotov bread basket | ... of small incendiary bombs (possibly delivered by a cluster bomb such as the | ). If a fire catches, it could spread, taking in adjacent buildings that w ... |
| Exocet | ... four torpedoes, four depth charges or two anti-ship missiles (Sea Eagle or | ). It can also readily be configured to deploy the B57 tactical nuclear we ... |
| MG 131 machine gun | ... the A-series, but replaced the 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 with 13 mm (.51 in) | . The originally planned 1,900 hp (1,400 kW) DB 603G engine was cancelled ... |
| Model 94 | ... the location where the combination was first developed). It is a Winchester | with a forward-mounted long-eye-relief telescopic sight. Although the orig ... |
| Model 1892 | ... the falling block single shot Model 1885, and the lever-action Model 1886, | , Model 1894 and Model 1895 rifles, most of which are still in production ... |
| shells | ... ll resources of the company at the disposal of the defenders, manufacturing | , defences, an armoured train and a gun named Long Cecil in the company wo ... |
| Browning Automatic Rifle | ... ol, the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the | , and the Browning Auto-5, a ground-breaking semi-automatic shotgun. These ... |
| Dragunov sniper rifle | ... 3–$24 million. Later that year, Chavez announced plans to purchase of 5,000 | s from the Russian Rosoboronexport, adding that Venezuela must ready itsel ... |
| M1911 | ... k, or by pulling the slide to the rear and releasing it. In common with the | , the Hi-Power is therefore typically carried with the hammer cocked and t ... |
| longbows | ... larm in the event of an attack. The royal bow-maker, responsible for making | , crossbows, catapults, and other siege and hand weapons, had a workshop i ... |
| Redstone Rocket | ... arted, the OGMC was given the mission to develop what eventually became the | . This rocket set the stage for America’s space program, as well as major ... |
| Browning Hi-Power | ... ins very popular amongst civilian shooters and some police departments. The | would have a similarly lengthy period of service outside the United States ... |
| T-80 | ... e been used as APUs in some tanks and as main powerplants in Soviet/Russian | s and U.S. M1 Abrams tanks, among others. They are lighter and smaller tha ... |
| MG 17 machine gun | The basic A-series aircraft were armed with two 7.92 mm (.312 in) | s and two 20 mm MG 151/20 cannons in the nose and delivered as the Me 410 ... |
| M1 Garand | ... nd feeds cartridges vertically into the action. These may be fixed (as with | , in which case cartridges are loaded from the top of the weapon, with the ... |
| MGM-1 Matador | ... nt of more advanced surface-to-surface tactical missile systems such as the | and later MGM-13 Mace |
| Taser | ... unarmed, armed with a less-lethal weapon such as a baton, pepper spray, or | , or with a lethal weapon such as a handgun, or, in the case of a governme ... |
| Browning .50 caliber machine gun | Browning's most successful designs include the M1911 pistol, the | , the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Brow ... |
| Soixante-Quinze | ... uns, and in particular the highly mobile, recoilless, field-gun, the French | , in the late 19th century |
| Reider | ... emi-automatic loading systems, such as the British Howell and South African | and the best-known of which was the Charlton Automatic Rifle, designed by ... |
| MGM-13 Mace | ... ace-to-surface tactical missile systems such as the MGM-1 Matador and later | |
| .50 caliber | ... ally quite competent. Their smaller tactical needs were filled with four M2 | machine guns linked together (known as the "Quad Fifty"), which were often ... |
| Mistel | ... oft or by launching them from a "piggy back" position (in the manner of the | , but in reverse) atop the aircraft. In the latter configuration, a pilot- ... |
| Vympel R-73 | ... d cruise missiles, 100 Vympel R-27 medium-range air-to-air missiles and 150 | short-range air-to-air missiles |
| Sword of Attila | Der Spiegel commented on 6. November 1948 that the | was hanging menacingly over Austria |
| Hispano cannon | ... rowning machine guns, Stoke, Corsham, and Newcastle-under-Lyme produced the | , Leicester and Studley Road produced the Besa machine gun, Ruislip produc ... |
| Model 1873 | ... , and trying to remove a Winchester from the scabbard on his horse. The two | rifles were still in the scabbards on the two horses when there were found ... |
| Ruger Mini | A semiautomatic Pseudo Scout rifle could easily be based upon the | platform, either the Mini-14 (.223 Remington or 6.8 mm Remington SPC) or t ... |
| Sagger | ... k weapons—rocket-propelled grenades and the less numerous but more advanced | guided missiles, which proved devastating to the first Israeli armored cou ... |
| MP 40 | ... 4. Unlike the AKMS's somewhat fragile underfolding stock (modeled after the | submachine gun stock), the AKS-74 stock is fabricated from stamped sheet m ... |
| Vympel R-27 | ... s, 50 Kh-31A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 Kh-59ME TV-guided cruise missiles, 100 | medium-range air-to-air missiles and 150 Vympel R-73 short-range air-to-ai ... |
| Caladbolg | ... Geoffrey. It is often considered to be related to the phonetically similar | , a sword borne by several figures from Irish mythology, although a borrow ... |
| T-72 | ... USD $80 million worth of military equipment from Ukraine which included 20 | main battle tanks, 100 trucks and various small arms. 20 x T-72 have been ... |
| Fat Man | ... d production reactors which produced the plutonium for the Trinity test and | bombs, all used pure carbon (graphite) neutron moderators combined with no ... |
| anti-tank | ... Egyptians had armed their assault force with large numbers of man-portable | weapons—rocket-propelled grenades and the less numerous but more advanced ... |
| Martini-Enfield | A number of British Service Rifles, predominantly the Martini-Henry and | , but also the various Lee-Enfield rifles, have been produced by small man ... |
| Fliegerfaust | ... hem were several guided and unguided systems. Unguided systems involved the | as the first MANPADS. Guided systems were several sophisticated radio, wir ... |
| Accuracy International's L96 | ... ritish Army's standard sniper weapon until the mid 1980s, being replaced by | |
| AIM-120 AMRAAM | Sparrow is now being phased out with the availability of the active-radar | , but is likely to remain in service for a number of years |
| Blowpipe missile | The main MANPADS used by both sides during the Falklands War was the | |
| Kh-59 | ... B-1500, 50 Kh-29 air-to-surface missiles, 50 Kh-31A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 | ME TV-guided cruise missiles, 100 Vympel R-27 medium-range air-to-air miss ... |
| .22-caliber | ... . The torso was "dressed out" like that of a deer. She had been shot with a | rifle, and the mutilations were made after death |
| MIM-104 Patriot | ... a). An example of area defence is the defence of Saudi Arabia and Israel by | missile batteries during the first Gulf War, where the objective was to co ... |
| MK 103 cannon | ... ned Me 410 A-2 heavy fighter was cancelled because the dual 30 mm (1.18 in) | pack was not ready in time. The Me 410A featured a bomb bay for carrying a ... |
| AGM-65 Maverick | ... A-50, which can be fitted with free-fall or precision missiles such as the | |
| Howell | ... verted to, experimental semi-automatic loading systems, such as the British | and South African Reider and the best-known of which was the Charlton Auto ... |
| Mosin–Nagant | ... the second oldest bolt-action rifle design still in official service, after | ; Lee-Enfield rifles are used by reserve forces and police forces in many ... |
| Baika | ... on the Fieseler Fi-103 Reichenberg (Fi 103R, a piloted V-1), and was named | ("plum blossom") |
| Sten | ... he conflict BSA produced 1,250,000 Lee Enfield .303 service rifles, 404,383 | sub-machine guns, 468,098 Browning machine guns plus spares equivalent to ... |
| guns | ... The tank crews had set up a "flak trap" amongst terrain and employed their | to good effect. Iraqi officials claimed a farmer with a Brno rifle shot do ... |
| howitzer | ... Secombe after Gunner Milligan's artillery unit accidentally allowed a large | to roll off a cliff - under which Secombe was sitting in a small wireless ... |
| Elugelab | ... test of the first U.S. hydrogen bomb, code named "Ivy Mike", the island of | in the Enewetak atoll was destroyed |
| Britney Spears | ... lming Next to You, starring alongside Adrian Grenier. Hart asked her friend | to do a remix of her song "(You Drive Me) Crazy" and add it to the movie's ... |
| T-72 | ... included 20 T-72 main battle tanks, 100 trucks and various small arms. 20 x | have been reported by World Defence Almanac. Tanks have been used in the K ... |
| MGM-51 Shillelagh | ... me M81/M81E1 152mm gun/launcher which fired conventional ammunition and the | guided anti-tank missile |
| T-72 | ... tanks, they would not have been very effective against the Soviet-designed | s which comprised the bulk of the Iraqi Republican Guard. Their role was l ... |
| Rifle, No. 8 | After the Second World War, the Rifle, No. 7, | and Rifle, No. 9, all .22 rimfire trainers and/or target rifles based on t ... |
| Kh-31 | ... ided bombs types KAB-500 and KAB-1500, 50 Kh-29 air-to-surface missiles, 50 | A1 anti-ship missiles, 50 Kh-59ME TV-guided cruise missiles, 100 Vympel R- ... |
| BGM-71 TOW | ... on, state of the art equipment, such as the AGM-65 Maverick missile and the | , weapons that had only entered production one or more years prior, as wel ... |
| Joint Direct Attack Munition | ... ea Air Force also expressed interests in acquiring the RQ-4 Global Hawk and | kits to further improve their intelligence and offensive capabilities |
| Buk-M2 | ... in education and health. The deal includes orders for 92 T-72 tanks and the | , S-125 Neva/Pechora missile system and S-300 air-defence systems and also ... |
| Winchester Model 1894 | ... ral sources, specifically the Austrian Mannlicher-Schönauer of 1903 and the | , Cooper defined several distinguishing characteristics of a scout rifle |
| AK-107 | Additionally, the | (5.45×39mm M74) and AK-108 (5.56×45mm NATO) rifles have a balanced recoil ... |
| Narsil | ... ing for survivors of the ambush. Isildur's squire Ohtar saved the shards of | from the enemy horde; Isildur's sons were killed during the battle. This i ... |
| Malcolm McLaren's | ... s" magazine. In a November 1976 article in Melody Maker, Caroline Coon used | term "New Wave" to designate music by bands not exactly punk, but related ... |
| .380 ACP | ... a medium-sized bullet at rather low speeds. The closest comparisons are the | , which fires much lighter bullets slightly faster than most .38 Special l ... |
| R-36M | ... RV missiles were equipped with electronic countermeasures and heavy decoys. | heavy missiles were carrying as many as 40 of them. These decoys would app ... |
| Mannlicher-Schönauer | Drawing inspiration from several sources, specifically the Austrian | of 1903 and the Winchester Model 1894, Cooper defined several distinguishi ... |
| SKS | ... pite the presence and ready availability of more modern weapons such as the | and the AK-47 |
| T-72 | ... Venezuela has shown interest on the following weapons: TOR-M1 SAM systems, | tanks, Su-35 jet fighters and Il-76 military cargo aircraft. Despite of th ... |
| R-7 | ... Jupiter-C (Redstone) which launched the Explorer satellites, or the immense | that the Soviets used to launch the early Sputniks. Von Braun has stated ( ... |
| 5"/38 caliber gun | ... ever sorted out. It was replaced by the Bofors 40 mm wherever possible. The | turned out to be an excellent anti-aircraft weapon, once the Proximity fuz ... |
| bow | ... yptians, Romans, Persians, Chinese, etc. development the siege engines. The | was manufactured in increasingly larger and more powerful versions to incr ... |
| RIM-7 Sea Sparrow | ... t missiles and hostile aircraft. These consist of either three or four NATO | missile launchers designed for defense against aircraft and anti-ship miss ... |
| Jungle Carbine | ... orter, lighter rifle led to the development of the Rifle, No. 5 Mk I (the " | "). With a severely cut-down stock, a prominent flash hider, and a receive ... |
| nuclear war | ... ber is a brilliant but eccentric Caltech nuclear physicist whose fears of a | lead him to build an enormous fallout shelter beneath his suburban home. T ... |
| AK-47 | ... reasons. All weapons supplied at that point were non-US made weapons, like | rifles purchased from China |
| TOW missile | ... a around the site. The device was determined to be a three-foot (.9-m) long | used in the training of federal agents and bomb-sniffing dogs; although ac ... |
| Browning Citori | ... by FN, Browning Superposed shotguns, and their more affordable cousins, the | made in Asia, continue to be manufactured into the 21st Century, and come ... |
| AGM-65 Maverick | ... 5 mm, 155 mm and 175 mm ammunition, state of the art equipment, such as the | missile and the BGM-71 TOW, weapons that had only entered production one o ... |
| Lee-Enfield | ... in both Houses of Parliament". The suggestion of using pikes made from old | rifle bayonet blades in a modern industrial war was indeed one of the War ... |
| AK-47 | ... sence and ready availability of more modern weapons such as the SKS and the | |
| 9x19mm Parabellum | ... fires much lighter bullets slightly faster than most .38 Special loads; the | , which fires a somewhat lighter bullet significantly faster; and the .38 ... |
| Safeguard | ... Moscow for the USSR and Grand Forks Air Force Base, North Dakota, since its | facility was already under construction, for the US |
| S Gundam | ... am design). Producer Masahiko Asano wrote in his notes on the production of | that everyone seemed to have their own idea of Gundam and in the meeting, ... |
| AK-105 | ... 7.62 mm AK-104 (both chambered for the 7.62×39mm M43 round) and the 5.45 mm | carbine (adapted to use 5.45×39mm M74 ammunition). The AK-101, 102, 103 an ... |
| M1918 Browning Automatic Rifle | ... : RPK or FN Minimi. One of the first weapons designed for this role was the | , which, though having a limited magazine capacity, was still more than th ... |
| RBS 70 | Armies typically have air defence in depth, from integral MANPADS like | , Stinger and Igla at smaller force levels up to army-level missile defenc ... |
| Spearfish torpedo | ... tors. Tigerfish was eventually replaced in-service by the much more capable | |
| Bren | ... by a New Zealander, Philip Charlton in 1941 to act as a substitute for the | and Lewis gun light machine guns which were in chronically short supply at ... |
| cookies | ... ranging in weight from 500 pounds to 4,000 pounds — the so-called two-ton " | ", also known as "blockbusters," because they had the power to destroy a c ... |
| 9x18mm Makarov | ... e loads and places between .380 ACP and 9 mm Parabellum, similar to that of | |
| Martini-Henry | ... without the full-size .22 rifle range with its fine collection of re-bored | s, as used in the Zulu Wars of the 19th century |
| Malcolm McLaren | ... lph Richardson, Christina Rossetti, Sir Sidney Nolan, Alexander Litvinenko, | , and Radclyffe Hall |
| incendiaries | ... roup of 254 Lancasters carrying 500 tons of high explosives and 375 tons of | , or fire bombs. There were 200,000 incendiaries in all, with the high-exp ... |
| KIS | ... procure submachine guns (copies of British Sten, indigenous Błyskawica and | ), pistols (Vis), flamethrowers, explosive devices, road mines and hand gr ... |
| Colt-Browning Model 1895 | ... utomatic weapons. He also developed the first gas-operated machine gun, the | —a system that surpassed mechanical recoil operation to become the standar ... |
| RPG-7 | ... and anti-tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza. The latter include standard | warheads and home-made rockets such as the Al-Bana, Al-Batar and Al-Yasin. ... |
| L42A1 | ... odified to Mk.3 standard) were later modified for use with the 7.62 mm NATO | Sniper Rifle. They were known by the designation Telescope Straight, Sight ... |
| RIM-116 Rolling Airframe Missile | ... CIWS missile defense cannon. has none of these, having been built with the | system, two of which have also been installed on and . These will be insta ... |
| Eurocopter Tiger | ... H-64 Apaches under license from Boeing, following a competition between the | and the Apache for the British Army's new Attack Helicopter in 1995. Impor ... |
| AK-47 | ... ed great many T-55, T-62, and PT-76 battle tanks along with huge amounts of | assault rifles ordered. Armored vehicles delivered in the 1970s also inclu ... |
| AK-103 | ... mm AK-102 carbine (both use the NATO-standard 5.56×45mm cartridge), 7.62 mm | assault rifle and 7.62 mm AK-104 (both chambered for the 7.62×39mm M43 rou ... |
| Steyr Scout | ... the late 1990s, Steyr-Mannlicher of Austria began series production of the | , which is also known as the Mannlicher Scout. Jeff Cooper spent many year ... |
| .40 S&W | ... y and quicker to reload semi-automatic pistols in 9mm Parabellum, .357 SIG, | , .45 ACP or .45 GAP |
| Mitsubishi AAM-4 | ... ploy the Sparrow missile, though it is being phased out and replaced by the | . NATO pilots use the brevity code Fox One in radio communication to signa ... |
| Browning Superposed | ... completed by his son, Val Browning. Commercially introduced in 1931 by FN, | shotguns, and their more affordable cousins, the Browning Citori made in A ... |
| Browning Hi-Power | ... the Fabrique Nationale GP35, it was more popularly known as the successful | pistol, a favorite of sportsman and law enforcement |
| FN Minimi | ... e most common SAWs in use today are derived from two basic patterns: RPK or | . One of the first weapons designed for this role was the M1918 Browning A ... |
| AIM-120 AMRAAM | ... is being phased out in aviation applications in favor of the more advanced | . The Self-Defence Forces of Japan also employ the Sparrow missile, though ... |
| .45 ACP | ... cker to reload semi-automatic pistols in 9mm Parabellum, .357 SIG, .40 S&W, | or .45 GAP |
| Mauser MG 213 | ... much higher volume of fire. While captured German designs (principally the | C) showed the potential of the single-barrel revolver cannon, the practica ... |
| S-300 | ... ers for 92 T-72 tanks and the Buk-M2, S-125 Neva/Pechora missile system and | air-defence systems and also the BM-30 Smerch rocket artillery system. Pre ... |
| W82 | ... ssile; 1969), W71 (Spartan missile; 1968), W79 (8-in. artillery gun; 1975), | (155-mm howitzer; 1978), B83 (modern strategic bomb; 1979), W87 (Peacekeep ... |
| Steyr Scout | The version considered by many to be the benchmark is the | |
| Eurocopter Tiger | ... that it may purchase as many as 52. A competition held in 1994 against the | and the AH-1 SuperCobra led to the Royal Netherlands Air Force ordering 30 ... |
| SPG-9 | ... -5 Spandrel, and twenty-seven AT-6 Spiral anti-tank guided weapons; a 73 mm | recoilless launcher, forty-five MT-12 100 mm anti-tank guns; and thirty ZU ... |
| Phalanx CIWS | ... ainst aircraft and anti-ship missiles as well as either three or four 20 mm | missile defense cannon. has none of these, having been built with the RIM- ... |
| L42A1 | ... o 4 Mk I (T) sniper rifles were converted to the new calibre and designated | . The L42A1 sniper rifle continued as the British Army's standard sniper w ... |
| Browning Superposed | The premium priced | shotgun, an over-under shotgun design for the ages, was his last completed ... |
| Błyskawica | ... AK was able to procure submachine guns (copies of British Sten, indigenous | and KIS), pistols (Vis), flamethrowers, explosive devices, road mines and ... |
| A-35 ABM system | ... arity with the US. This was achieved with the operational deployment of the | and its successors, which remain operational to this day |
| AIM-9 Sidewinder | Compressed argon is allowed to expand, to cool the seeker heads of the | missile, and other missiles that use cooled thermal seeker heads. The gas ... |
| RPG-43 | ... isions that was to cross the canal had been equipped with RPG-7 rockets and | grenades, and reinforced with an anti-tank guided missile battalion, as th ... |
| H&K USP | ... g Pistols (known popularly as BAPs, or Browning Automatic Pistols) with the | automatic in 2007 |
| S-125 Neva/Pechora | ... tion and health. The deal includes orders for 92 T-72 tanks and the Buk-M2, | missile system and S-300 air-defence systems and also the BM-30 Smerch roc ... |
| Brown Bess | ... rachm cartridges were compatible with none but the San Patricio Companies " | " muskets, and they made up only a fraction of the defending forces. Furth ... |
| BGM-71 TOW | ... le missiles fired out of guns would prove a disappointment, the wire-guided | would give infantry fighting vehicles like the M2 Bradley the firepower to ... |
| PPSh-41 | ... hers, and BTR-40 and BTR-152 armored personnel carriers. Also included were | and RPK machine guns. After King Zahir Shah's exile in 1973, President Dao ... |
| Hydra 70 | ... ing pylons, typically a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire anti-tank missiles, and | general-purpose unguided rockets. The Stinger and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to- ... |
| RIM-7 Sea Sparrow | The Sparrow was used as the basis for a surface-to-air missile, the | , which is used by the United States Navy for air defense of its ships |
| M1919 Browning machine gun | ... o maneuver warfare than the bulkier machine guns of the period, such as the | |
| 50 mm (2 in) KwK 39 L/60 | ... er. The BK 5 cannon - derived from the Panzer III tank's main armament, the | - allowed the Me 410s to shoot at their targets from over 914 m (1,000 yd) ... |
| AK-101 | ... o the basis for the new Russian family of Kalashnikov firearms: the 5.56 mm | standard rifle and 5.56 mm AK-102 carbine (both use the NATO-standard 5.56 ... |
| AK-47 | ... s approved in 1998. Popular weapons are AR-15 and semiautomatic variants of | and Finnish RKs, such as RK-92S and a semiautomatic variant of RK-76 |
| CRV7 | ... ement to the Hellfire missile, either the American Hydra 70 or the Canadian | . In Britain, there was controversy over British-supplied components being ... |
| IKAROS | ... ance from the Sun. The concept has been successfully tested by the Japanese | solar sail spacecraft |
| T-72 | ... ding to avoid cuts in education and health. The deal includes orders for 92 | tanks and the Buk-M2, S-125 Neva/Pechora missile system and S-300 air-defe ... |
| OT-64 SKOT | ... rmored personnel carriers, 15 Czech BMP-1 infantry fighting vehicles and 90 | APCs, 64 German Condor APCs, 15 Brazilian EE-9 Cascavel and 18 EE-3 Jarara ... |
| Type 99 | ... s ageing Soviet-derived tank inventory with numerous variants of the modern | tank, and upgrading its battlefield C3I systems to enhance its network-cen ... |
| Colt Official Police | ... o bodies and body armor. That same year, Colt Firearms announced that their | would also handle 'high-speed' .38 Special loadings. The .38/44 high-speed ... |
| anti-satellite missile | ... have also been developed – in 2007, China conducted a successful test of an | , and its first indigenous land-attack cruise missile, the CJ-10, entered ... |
| M14 | ... d finished in Australia, chambered in 7.62x51mm NATO and feed from modified | magazines. The No. 4 Mk IV is designed with the modern shooter in mind, an ... |
| Titan II | When the storable-fueled | and the solid-fueled Minuteman I were deployed in 1963, the Titan I and At ... |
| Molotov cocktail | ... s a bottle and fills it with gasoline from the jeep's fuel line, creating a | . When Smith climbs down for a better shot, Macreedy throws it, hitting th ... |
| AK-47 | ... e thanks to Charlie Wilson, replaced them with a mix of modern weapons like | s and mortars |
| AIM-9 Sidewinder | ... nk missiles, and Hydra 70 general-purpose unguided rockets. The Stinger and | air-to-air missiles and the AGM-122 Sidearm anti-radiation missile were ev ... |
| Mark 48 Mod-1 | ... , including purchase of the U.S. Mark 45 ASTOR nuclear torpedo, or the U.S. | , or Subroc from the United States, or at the initiative of Flag Officer S ... |
| M61 Vulcan | ... rol system that makes it a highly nimble aircraft. The F-16 has an internal | cannon and has 11 hardpoints for mounting weapons and other mission equipm ... |
| FROG-7 | On October 9, Syrian | surface-to-surface missiles struck the Israeli Air Force base of Ramat Dav ... |
| AR-15 | ... itself functions as a piston as in the French MAS 49 and 49-56 rifles. The | and its military versions, the automatic M16 and M4 Carbine, are the most ... |
| TOW | ... . Other notable foreign equipment in service with the ROK Army includes the | ATGM launchers and Mistral MANPADS |
| M1128 Mobile Gun System | ... ility to carry troops. Though other light tanks were evaluated, the wheeled | currently provides an armored 105mm gun platform that is lighter than a ba ... |
| incendiary | ... he 17th century during sieges, armies attempted to start fires by launching | shells filled with sulfur, tallow, rosin, turpentine, saltpeter, and/or an ... |
| SM-65 Atlas | ... provided an additional nuclear deterrent to complement the U.S. Air Force's | missile. It was the first in a series of Titan rockets, but was unique amo ... |
| MG 151/20 cannon | ... raft were armed with two 7.92 mm (.312 in) MG 17 machine guns and two 20 mm | s in the nose and delivered as the Me 410 A-1 light bomber. The originally ... |
| Malcolm McLaren | ... London SS was managed by Bernard Rhodes, a sometime associate of impresario | and a friend of the band McLaren managed, the Sex Pistols. Jones and his b ... |
| MG 131 machine gun | For defense, the Me 210's rear gunner was armed with two 13 mm (.51 in) | s. Each of these were fitted into half-teardrop-shaped Ferngerichtete Dreh ... |
| 120 mm M1 gun | ... e possible. Also available to the Americans at the start of the war was the | stratosphere gun, which was the most powerful AA gun with an impressive al ... |
| sling | ... dvance in warfare was the development of the ranged weapons and notably the | . The next significant advance came with the domestication of the horses a ... |
| VG | ... ch. This research produced at least three more agents; the four agents (VE, | , VM, VX) are collectively known as the "V-Series" class of nerve agents |
| AGM-122 Sidearm | ... uided rockets. The Stinger and AIM-9 Sidewinder air-to-air missiles and the | anti-radiation missile were evaluated beginning in the late 1980s. The Sti ... |
| S-300 | ... capabilities. China has furthermore acquired and improved upon the Russian | surface-to-air missile system. Russia later produced the next-generation S ... |
| Mk 15 Phalanx | The M61 is also the basis of the US Navy | CIWS system and the M163 VADS Vulcan Air Defense System (the M168 variant ... |
| Mizuno Shinryu | Another Japanese Fi 103 version was the | , a proposed rocket-powered kamikaze aircraft design which was not built |
| RPK | ... R-40 and BTR-152 armored personnel carriers. Also included were PPSh-41 and | machine guns. After King Zahir Shah's exile in 1973, President Daoud Khan ... |
| P-15 Termit | ... or sunk to build reefs. Cuba has constructed rolling platforms with Soviet | missile batteries taken from its warships and placed them near beaches whe ... |
| JL-2 | ... 9. In 2011, the Pentagon reported that China was believed to be testing the | missile, a submarine-launched nuclear ICBM with |
| VX | In 1952, researchers in Porton Down, England, invented the | nerve agent but soon abandoned the project. In 1958 the British government ... |
| BGM-109 Tomahawk | ... ts are underway on developing systems that could create as much damage as a | , but at a fraction of the cost. In February 2008 the US Navy tested a mag ... |
| hydrogen bomb | With the 1952 test of the first U.S. | , code named "Ivy Mike", the island of Elugelab in the Enewetak atoll was ... |
| RPG-7 | ... five infantry divisions that was to cross the canal had been equipped with | rockets and RPG-43 grenades, and reinforced with an anti-tank guided missi ... |
| Kerrison Predictor | The solution was automation, in the form of a mechanical computer, the | . Operators kept it pointed at the target, and the Predictor then calculat ... |
| M-16 rifle | The U.S. had provided the ARVN with 793,994 M1 carbines 640,000 | s, 34,000 M79 grenade launchers, 40,000 radios, 20,000 quarter-ton trucks, ... |
| Hispano Mk II | ... ew on 3 May 1941: P5216 carried an armament of four belt-fed 20 mm (.79 in) | cannon, each with 140 rounds per gun and was the first prototype of the Ty ... |
| Air-to-Air Stinger | ... nd can be used by paratroopers. A helicopter launched version exists called | (ATAS) |
| Poseidon missile | The Royal Navy preferred to upgrade to the | , increasing the number of warheads from three per missile to between ten ... |
| Wallace Sword | ... was erected, very close to the site of his victory at Stirling Bridge. The | , which supposedly belonged to Wallace, although some parts were made at l ... |
| RPG-7 | ... ters, SA-2, SA-3, SA-6 and SA-7 antiaircraft missiles, T-55 and T-62 tanks, | antitank weapons, and the AT-3 Sagger anti-tank guided missile from the So ... |
| Malcolm McLaren | ... numerous awards and recognitions, and acquired an unexpected audience after | sampled some of its music in his 1982 hit song, "Buffalo Girls." Later the ... |
| AGM-114 Hellfire | ... our hardpoints mounted on stub-wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of | missiles and Hydra 70 rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems ... |
| Mark 82 bomb | ... army, lacking fixed-wing aircraft, modified the UH-1H allowing it to carry | s to strike militant positions. Each Huey was equipped on each side with s ... |
| Thompson submachine gun | ... most famous applications of the Blish Lock were the Thompson Autorifle and | . Several engineers suspected the autorifle functioned more as a retarded ... |
| artillery pieces | The following is a list of | captured by Forrest |
| Wii Remote | ... he game's hardware. Dragon Quest Swords for the Wii uses the motion sensing | as a sword. Another spin-off title, Slime MoriMori Dragon Quest, uses the ... |
| Phalanx close-in weapon systems | ... an 8-cell Mark 41 Vertical launch system for Sea Sparrow missiles, and four | |
| WE.177 | ... lag Officer Submarines minuted that the proposal to arm the Mark 8 with the | A warhead would, despite the torpedo's performance shortcomings, be "much ... |
| interceptor | ... th a strength of 17,969 troops, the FAP counts in its arsenal with MiG-29 ( | ) and Mirage 2000 (interdictor / multirole aircraft) |
| mining | ... ing the Contras in their rebellion against the Nicaraguan government and by | Nicaragua's harbors. The United States refused to participate in the proce ... |
| M1A rifle | ... . These are the Scout Squad, the SOCOM 16, and the SOCOM II variants of the | . Of the three, the SOCOM 16 probably comes the closest to a true Scout si ... |
| Lance | ... n's nuclear stockpile. These were used in missiles ranging in size from the | surface-to-surface tactical missile to the megaton-class Spartan antiballi ... |
| mace | ... eant that pikemen had to be equipped with a shorter weapon such as a sword, | , or dagger in order to defend themselves should the fighting degenerate i ... |
| M-1097 Avenger | ... officially it requires two. The FIM-92B missile can also be fired from the | and M6 Linebacker. The missile is also capable of being deployed from a Hu ... |
| Greek fire | Use of fire in warfare has a long history; similar to napalm is the earlier | , which was also described as "sticky fire" (πῦρ κολλητικόν) and is believ ... |
| tomahawk | ... supplied with European arms, or were armed with more primitive weapons like | s and bows and arrows. A small number of colonists had training in the ope ... |
| M230 Chain Gun | ... acquisition and night vision systems. It is armed with a [[30 mm caliber|]] | carried between the main landing gear, under the aircraft's forward fusela ... |
| NHIndustries NH90 | The Air Force is currently in the process of retiring the Iroquois. The | has been chosen as the replacement aircraft. This process is expected to b ... |
| Tactical High Energy Laser | ... ching what could be considered "experimental usefulness". In particular the | can be used in the anti-aircraft and anti-missile role. If current develop ... |
| Mark 14 torpedo | ... ot subject to the same problems as the Mark 6 exploders on U.S. submarines' | es. Introduction of the Mark 13 torpedo to PT boats in mid-1943 all but el ... |
| BB gun | In 1952, Walker was accidentally wounded in the right eye by a shot from a | fired by one of her brothers. Because the family had no car, the Walkers c ... |
| Man-Portable Air-Defense System (MANPADS) | ... se by EADS in Germany, with 70,000 missiles produced. It is classified as a | |
| W48 | ... 1957), W45 (Little John/Terrier missiles; 1956), W47 (Polaris SLBM; 1957), | (155-mm howitzer; 1957), W55 (submarine rocket; 1959), W56 (Minuteman ICBM ... |
| Burnside carbine | ... and energy to the manufacture of the famous rifle that bears his name, the | . The Secretary of War under President James Buchanan, John B. Floyd, cont ... |
| Britney Spears | On September 4, 2003, | , Mary J. Blige, Aretha Franklin, Aerosmith and others performed in a nati ... |
| Britney Spears | ... ured a soundtrack which included previously unreleased songs by 'N Sync and | . Bass collaborated with Joey Fatone, Mandy Moore, Christian Burns and Tru ... |
| NES Zapper | ... ndo Entertainment System (NES) game console system in which players use the | to shoot ducks on screen for points. The game was developed and published ... |
| MIRV | ... heads, which was becoming increasingly inexpensive with the introduction of | s |
| FN FAL | The current assault rifle used by the army is the Belgian | - Argentinian Built; it is being replaced by Austrian Steyr AUG following ... |
| Polyus | The Energia was first test-launched on 15 May 1987, with the | spacecraft as the payload. A FGB ("Functional Cargo Block") engine section ... |
| FROG-7 | ... arriers, BM-27 "Uragan" and BM-21 "Grad" multiple-launch rocket systems and | and Scud launchers. Some of the weapons that were not damaged during the d ... |
| Browning Auto-5 | ... ne gun, the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the | , a ground-breaking semi-automatic shotgun. These arms are nearly identica ... |
| M2 .50 cal | ... ith numerous automatic weapons. Common to all US PT boats were the two twin | (12.7 mm) machine guns. Early PT boats (Elco PT20 through PT44) mounted De ... |
| Bofors gun | ... 44, halving the operational height, thereby bringing V-1s into range of the | s commonly used by Allied AA units |
| Browning Hi-Power | ... designs include the M1911 pistol, the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the | pistol, the Browning Automatic Rifle, and the Browning Auto-5, a ground-br ... |
| Psyco Gundam | ... t images to the cockpit (with the exception of the head-mounted cockpits in | ) and are non-sentient machines, with the exceptions of the artificial int ... |
| mace | ... Pelennor Fields, the Witch-king bore a "long pale sword", and later used a | against Éowyn |
| Type 97 machine gun | Armament was two forward-firing 7.7 mm (.303 in) | s, and one flexible 7.7 mm (.303 in) Type 92 machine gun in the rear cockp ... |
| Zweihänder | ... d Landsknecht phalanxes also contained men armed with two-handed swords, or | , and halberdiers for close combat against both infantry and attacking cav ... |
| Reichenbergs | Late in the war, several air-launched piloted V-1s, known as | , were built, but never used in combat. Hanna Reitsch made some flights in ... |
| Smith & Wesson Model 10 | ... fire in weapons rated specifically for 38 Special (e.g. all versions of the | ), which are not designed for the greatly increased pressure of the magnum ... |
| 57 mm AZP S-60 | ... and 82 towed anti-aircraft guns (14.5mm, including 12 ZPU-4, 23mm, 37mm, 12 | , and 12 100 KS-19s |
| Modèle 1935 pistol | ... decided not to adopt the pistol, instead selecting the conceptually similar | |
| incendiaries | ... ers on 16 January 1945, dropping 279 tons of high-explosives and 41 tons of | |
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| Thompson submachine gun | ... d static friction, or stiction. His locking mechanism was used first in the | |
| Blue Steel II | ... g Soviet Air Defence Forces, and by the late 1950s the RAF was pursuing the | stand-off missile to allow its bombers to fire their weapons while still ( ... |
| Caladbolg | ... ach while stealing his magical cauldron. (Irish mythology mentions a weapon | , the sword of Fergus mac Roich. Caladbolg was also known for its incredib ... |
| 20 mm Oerlikon | Another automatic weapon commonly mounted on PT boats was the | cannon. On early series of boats, this cannon was mounted on the stern. La ... |
| Steyr AUG | ... is the Belgian FN FAL - Argentinian Built; it is being replaced by Austrian | following a bidding contest in 2007 and 2008. In addition, about 300 Russi ... |
| Thompson Autorifle | The most famous applications of the Blish Lock were the | and Thompson submachine gun. Several engineers suspected the autorifle fun ... |
| Polyus | ... onal variants: Energia-Polyus, the initial test configuration, in which the | system was used as a final stage to put the payload into orbit, and Energi ... |
| MAC-10 | ... fact, Jay accidentally helps Bartleby out by shooting his wings off with a | , turning him to a mortal), God (Alanis Morissette) arrives, and proceeds ... |
| 37mm anti-tank gun | ... was made to Kennedy's PT-109 which was equipped with a single-shot Army M3 | that her crew had commandeered; they removed the wheels and lashed it to 2 ... |
| .45 ACP | ... .G. De Lisle, was effectively an SMLE Mk III* receiver redesigned to take a | cartridge and associated magazine, with a barrel from a Thompson submachin ... |
| AIM-9 Sidewinder | Early models could be armed with up to six | heat-seeking short-range air-to-air missiles (AAM), including rail launche ... |
| Sandia National Laboratories | Erik P. DeBenedictis of | theorizes that a zettaflops (10 21 ) (one sextillion FLOPS) computer is re ... |
| Khaybar KH2002 | ... Iranian company, was involved in the bidding to replace the FN FAL with its | ; but since there is a UN embargo banning arms exports from Iran, the comp ... |
| Thompson submachine gun | ... d to take a .45 ACP cartridge and associated magazine, with a barrel from a | and an integral silencer |
| S-400 | ... able to detect and engage stealth targets, with the most notable being the | , which is claimed to be able to detect a target with a 0.05 meter squared ... |
| 13-pr QF 9 cwt | ... e lined down to take the 13-pdr shell with a larger cartridge producing the | and these proved much more satisfactory. However, In general, these ad-hoc ... |
| QF 3 inch 20 cwt | ... -poms being ineffective. The naval 3-inch was also adopted by the army, the | (76 mm), a new field mounting was introduced in 1916. Since most attacks w ... |
| M1911 pistol | ... nlocked from the slide by a cam arrangement. Unlike Browning's earlier Colt | , the barrel is not moved vertically by a toggling link, but instead by a ... |
| Gatling gun | ... uary 26, 1903) was an American inventor best known for his invention of the | , the first successful machine gun |
| KAI A-50 | ... e 29 F-15Ks being delivered by June 2010, and a number of South Korean made | s among its combat aircraft. The Korean variant of F-15E were named F-15K ... |
| mines | ... ie Massey and Nevill Mott; he worked on the design of magnetic and acoustic | and was instrumental in designing a new mine that was effective against Ge ... |
| AK-101 | ... ollowing a bidding contest in 2007 and 2008. In addition, about 300 Russian | s are already used, and the elite airborne, commando, and antiterrorist Ba ... |
| BM-30 Smerch | ... -125 Neva/Pechora missile system and S-300 air-defence systems and also the | rocket artillery system. President Hugo Chavez stated that "Venezuela has ... |
| Death Star | Red Squadron was essential to the destruction of the | at the Battle of Yavin. After the battle, the squadron operated as two gro ... |
| AIM-7 Sparrow | ... (AAM), including rail launchers on each wingtip. Some F-16s can employ the | medium-range AAM; more recent versions can equip the AIM-120 AMRAAM. It ca ... |
| MIM-23 Hawk | ... 226 utility vehicles, 12 MIM-72 Chaparral surface-to-air missile systems, 3 | surface-to-air missile systems, 36 155 mm artillery pieces, 7 175 mm artil ... |
| nuclear warhead | ... ansported to another planet where O'Neill's standing order is to detonate a | near the Stargate at the sign of danger, but a young boy named Skaara give ... |
| Katyusha | ... ructure. Southern District Police chief Uri Bar-Lev believed the Grad-model | rocket was manufactured in Iran. In March 2008, 230 buildings and 30 cars ... |
| M163 VADS | The M61 is also the basis of the US Navy Mk 15 Phalanx CIWS system and the | Vulcan Air Defense System (the M168 variant is used) |
| Remington 700 | B-Square offers forward scope mounts for building Scouts based upon the | , the Mauser, and the |
| AIM-120 AMRAAM | ... ploy the AIM-7 Sparrow medium-range AAM; more recent versions can equip the | . It can also carry other AAM; a wide variety of air-to-ground missiles, r ... |
| Steyr AUG | ... ys have a bipod. In the case of some assault rifles, such as the H&K G36 or | , the SAW is simply the standard rifle with a few parts replaced. Neverthe ... |
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| M1911 pistol | Browning's most successful designs include the | , the Browning .50 caliber machine gun, the Browning Hi-Power pistol, the ... |
| Gsh-6-30 | ... which uses both guns and missiles for final defense. Two six-barreled 30 mm | gatling guns and 9M311 surface to air missiles provide for its defensive c ... |
| RP-3 | ... ach wing; trials at the A & AEE and AFDU showed that the combination of the | rocket and the stable, high-speed platform of the Typhoon was promising. C ... |
| Vickers machine gun | ... and the "Red Baron" is believed to have been shot down by an anti-aircraft | . When the war ended, it was clear that the increasing capabilities of air ... |
| AEK-971 | ... elt recoil and muzzle rise. This balanced recoil system is derived from the | rifle |
| Mark 13 torpedo | ... Mark 6 exploders on U.S. submarines' Mark 14 torpedoes. Introduction of the | to PT boats in mid-1943 all but eliminated the early problems that PT boat ... |
| Exocet | ... 1983 and 1985. They are equipped with the submarine-launched version of the | anti-ship missile. Four Daphné class submarines were completed between 197 ... |
| Kashtan CIWS | ... bridge the gap between guns and missiles, Russia in particular produces the | , which uses both guns and missiles for final defense. Two six-barreled 30 ... |
| M4 | ... e shot army anti-tank weapon. Their answer was found in the 37mm Oldsmobile | aircraft automatic cannon cannibalized from crashed P-39 Airacobra fighter ... |
| FN FAL | ... equipment in the armed forces. In some cases, Venezuelan armaments like the | have been in service more than 50 years. The government also claims that t ... |
| M101 | ... 5 and AMX-13), armoured personnel carriers (M-113, UR-416), artillery (D30, | , M109 and M114 howitzers), antiaircraft systems (ZSU-23-4 Shilka) and hel ... |
| Molotov cocktail | ... of Clyde Kennard had made him a prominent black leader. On May 28, 1963, a | was thrown into the carport of his home. On June 7 1963, Evers was nearly ... |
| FIM-43 Redeye | ... y conflict, since no fixed wing aircraft were used, the previous generation | was considered adequate |
| VX gas | ... ed Brigadier General Francis X. Hummel (Harris) seize a stockpile of deadly | –armed rockets from a heavily guarded military bunker, reluctantly leaving ... |
| Haitōrei Edict | As Finance Minister in 1871, Ōkubo enacted a Land Tax Reform, the | , which prohibited samurai from wearing swords in public, and ended offici ... |
| MIM-72 Chaparral | ... M-60/M-48A3 tanks, 250 armored personnel carriers, 226 utility vehicles, 12 | surface-to-air missile systems, 3 MIM-23 Hawk surface-to-air missile syste ... |
| M60 | ... of the 1st Australian Task Force. In this role they were armed with single | doorguns. In 1969 four of No. 9 Squadron's helicopters were converted to g ... |
| KAI T-50 | ... s jet trainers beginning in 1997. This project eventually culminated in the | , dubbed the "Golden Eagle" which is used as a trainer for jet pilots, now ... |
| Springfield rifle | ... the first, American car (1825, Thomas Blanchard;) numerous editions of the | ; the gasoline-powered automobile, (1893, the Duryea brothers;) the first ... |
| Nintendo Zapper Light Gun | In Duck Hunt, players use the | and attempt to shoot down either ducks or clay pigeons in mid-flight. Duck ... |
| M61 Vulcan | ... lined seat to reduce g-force effects on the pilot. The F-16 has an internal | cannon in the left wing root and has 11 hardpoints for mounting various mi ... |
| mine | ... ditionally, a few PT boats were equipped to carry Naval Mines launched from | racks, but these were not in common usage |
| sling | ... urns to the left while the left arm is raised to his left shoulder with his | flung down behind his back. Michelangelo’s David has become one of the mos ... |
| Drill Purpose Rifle | The L59A1 was a conversion of the No4 Rifle (all Marks) to a | that was incapable of being restored to a firing configuration. It was int ... |
| Coastal artillery | Near the city, there are deep woods. In Baneheia and at the previous | Fortress Odderøya, there are lighted ski trails and walking paths speciall ... |
| SU-76 | ... t was mainly Sukhoi Su-7, MiG-21 fighter jets, T-34 and Iosif Stalin tanks, | self-propelled guns, GAZ-69 4x4 light trucks of jeep class (in many versio ... |
| Four Treasures | Nuada's great sword was one of the | of the Tuatha Dé Danann, brought from one of their four great cities |
| Hydra 70 | ... -wing pylons, typically carrying a mixture of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles and | rocket pods. The AH-64 has a large amount of systems redundancy to improve ... |
| nuclear attack | ... vide public information and morale-boosting broadcasts for 100 days after a | |
| BAR | ... ar with the United States Marines. The Colt 1911, Browning 1917/19, and the | saw action with US forces in World War I, World War II and the Korean War, ... |
| Katyusha | ... 4x4 light trucks of jeep class (in many versions), ZIL-157 military trucks, | multiple rocket launchers, and BTR-40 and BTR-152 armored personnel carrie ... |
| 9 mm | The Browning Hi-Power is a single-action, | semi-automatic handgun. It is based on a design by American firearms inven ... |
| M-48A3 | ... argo airplanes, 8 CH-53 helicopters, 40 unmanned aerial vehicles, 200 M-60/ | tanks, 250 armored personnel carriers, 226 utility vehicles, 12 MIM-72 Cha ... |
| ABM-1 Galosh | The response to the threat of interception by | missiles was to deploy an upgraded or Improved Front End (IFE) to Polaris ... |
| Sten | ... . In this way the AK was able to procure submachine guns (copies of British | , indigenous Błyskawica and KIS), pistols (Vis), flamethrowers, explosive ... |
| Leclerc | ... ection system and reactive armor comparable to the American M1A2 and French | |
| Colt Single Action Army | ... floor while he examined Billy and Tom. Both Frank and Billy were armed with | revolvers which were identified by their serial numbers at the Spicer hear ... |
| Carnwennan | ... agger named Carnwennan and a spear named Rhongomyniad that belonged to him. | ("Little White-Hilt") first appears in Culhwch and Olwen, where it was use ... |
| Martini-Henry | A number of British Service Rifles, predominantly the | and Martini-Enfield, but also the various Lee-Enfield rifles, have been pr ... |
| Sword of Attila | ... but only a sword in the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna is known as the | , because of the Miholjanec legend and because Jordanes embellished the re ... |
| Thermite | ... am lost, the military readies a backup plan: an air strike by F/A-18's with | plasma, that will neutralize the poison gas but kill everyone on the islan ... |
| 37mm Gun M1 | ... cause the U.S. Army Coast Artillery Corps was not satisfied with the Army's | , in September 1940 General George C. Marshall asked the British for the l ... |
| SAM Roland | ... west European weapons including the Oerlikon GDF-002 35 mm twin cannon and | , while the British forces used the brand-new FIM-92 Stinger. Both sides a ... |
| K30 Biho | ... us , fitted with 8 missiles that fly at maximum speeds of mach 2.6, and the | series, which feature a 30 mm twin gun system for self-propelled anti-aeri ... |
| AK-47 | ... a Jungle Carbine-styled version chambered in 7.62x39mm Russian, which uses | magazine |
| M16 | ... MAS 49 and 49-56 rifles. The AR-15 and its military versions, the automatic | and M4 Carbine, are the most common and well-known weapons which utilize t ... |
| Type 91 | ... a much larger turning radius than Yorktown, and, at 11:20, hit her with two | torpedoes. The first torpedo buckled the port aviation gasoline stowage ta ... |
| Goalkeeper CIWS | ... Guns are being increasingly pushed into specialist roles, such as the Dutch | , which uses the GAU-8/A Avenger 30 mm seven-barrel Gatling Gun for last d ... |
| W70 | ... Polaris SLBM; 1960), W62 (Minuteman ICBM; 1964), W68 (Poseidon SLBM; 1966), | (Lance missile; 1969), W71 (Spartan missile; 1968), W79 (8-in. artillery g ... |
| Molotov cocktail | ... e Primate Freedom Project. Demonstrations were held in front of his home. A | was placed on the porch of what was believed to be the home of another UCL ... |
| Panzerfaust | ... office at HASAG that developed the successful one-man anti-tank weapon, the | . Later, she chose the composition "Hannelore" to be used as her first nam ... |
| 6-inch guns | ... building with of armour on the seaward side, and originally armed with four | , built with great difficulty as its sandbank is below low water. In 1987 ... |
| M48 Patton | ... ntry. In 1969, armored cavalry units (minus the 11th ACR which retained its | tank companies) began replacing their M48 Patton tanks, which in turn were ... |
| Safeguard Program | Of particular interest in Nekoma is the | anti-ballistic missile complex, with a structure visible from miles in eve ... |
| Jungle Carbine | ... drilling and tapping the receiver. AIA also offers the AIA M10-A1 rifle, a | -styled version chambered in 7.62x39mm Russian, which uses AK-47 magazine |
| variant | ... 11 going on to serve as the U.S.'s standard military side arm until 1985; a | is still used by special operations units of the United States Marine Corp ... |
| M48 Patton | However, the Sheridan did not get stuck in the mud as often as the 52 ton | tank did, nor did it throw its track off as often as the Patton. This alon ... |
| FN FAL | ... N's excellent marketing and superb product line-up (which also included the | rifle and FN MAG general purpose machine gun), it was adopted as the stand ... |
| nuclear war | ... government of the United States would be able to continue operating after a | . These plans were classified for many years, partly under the assumption ... |
| Sidolówka | ... amethrowers, explosive devices, road mines and hand grenades (Filipinka and | ). Hundreds of people were involved in this manufacturing effort. AK did n ... |
| Hiten | ... spacecraft. This was the first aerobraking maneuver by a deep space probe. | (a.k.a. MUSES-A) was launched by the (ISAS) of Japan. Hiten flew by the Ea ... |
| T-90 | All modern Soviet/Russian tanks like the | are also able to perform deep fording operations, however unlike the Leopa ... |
| Gamo | This article is not about | subsidiary BSA Guns (UK) Limited of Armoury Road, Small Heath, Birmingham ... |
| poison gas | ... veral major battles during the early stages of the war including the use of | attacks at Ypres. Losses became grave, and the government eventually broug ... |
| AR-15 | ... ttaché case); H&K MP5K submachine guns (sometimes in an attaché case); Colt | assault rifles; Remington Model 700 bolt-action sniper rifles (with scope) ... |
| W79 | ... seidon SLBM; 1966), W70 (Lance missile; 1969), W71 (Spartan missile; 1968), | (8-in. artillery gun; 1975), W82 (155-mm howitzer; 1978), B83 (modern stra ... |
| Jon Savage | ... e backlash when Burnel, a martial arts enthusiast, punched music journalist | during a promotional event |
| M14 | ... hich is removed for reloading. Some detachable-magazine rifles, such as the | , can also be top-loaded. Some designs use a horizontal tubular magazine s ... |
| Stockpile Stewardship | ... ns. To sustain existing warheads for the indefinite future, a science-based | Program (SSP) was defined that emphasized the development and application ... |
| Leopard 2 | The | tank carries a snorkel that is in fact a series of rings which can be stac ... |
| Nancy Spungen | ... has been the subject of a number of songs and the scene of the stabbing of | (allegedly by her boyfriend Sid Vicious) |
| Gamo | Rights were acquired by | for its new subsidiary BSA Guns (UK) Limite |
| AKM | The AK-74 is an adaptation of the 7.62mm | assault rifle and features several important design improvements. These mo ... |
| FN MAG | ... keting and superb product line-up (which also included the FN FAL rifle and | general purpose machine gun), it was adopted as the standard service pisto ... |
| Colt 1911 | ... saw action in the Spanish-American War with the United States Marines. The | , Browning 1917/19, and the BAR saw action with US forces in World War I, ... |
| Titan II | ... e Strategic Air Command's 390th Strategic Missile Wing (390 SMW) and its 18 | ICBM sites around Tucson were activated. The 390 SMW was one of only three ... |
| Mjöllnir | The poem Þrymskviða tells of Thor's loss of his hammer, | , to the jötnar and quest to get it back. At one point in the tale, the go ... |
| Welgun | ... vision. In late 1942 BSA examined the Special Operations Executive designed | with a view to manufacture. BSA were willing to manufacture the gun in the ... |
| Greek fire | ... nople, in 941 and 944, and in spite of part of his fleet being destroyed by | , concluded with the Emperor a favourable treaty whose text is preserved i ... |
| Filipinka | ... ols (Vis), flamethrowers, explosive devices, road mines and hand grenades ( | and Sidolówka). Hundreds of people were involved in this manufacturing eff ... |
| FN P90 | ... lt-action sniper rifles; Remington Model 870P pump-action shotguns; and the | personal defense weapon |
| mines | ... n place, was detected by hydrophones, and then destroyed by shore-triggered | before the boat could enter the anchorage |
| Mark 13 torpedo | ... t . These torpedoes and tubes were replaced in mid-1943 by four lightweight | s, which weighed and contained a Torpex filled warhead. These torpedoes we ... |
| M1911 pistol | ... land Arms produces .45 ACP conversion kits for the Lee-Enfield action using | magazines |
| .45 ACP | Rhineland Arms produces | conversion kits for the Lee-Enfield action using M1911 pistol magazines |
| Browning 1917/19 | ... in the Spanish-American War with the United States Marines. The Colt 1911, | , and the BAR saw action with US forces in World War I, World War II and t ... |
| Wasserfall | ... egan in Nazi Germany during the late World War II with missiles such as the | , though no working system was deployed before the war's end, and represen ... |
| GP-25 | ... kets are cast into the gas block assembly and are used to attach a BG-15 or | under-slung 40 mm grenade launcher. The forward section of the front sight ... |
| K2 Black Panther | The future replacement for the K1 MBT has been baptized the | (Korean: 흑표), which will be fitted with a water-cooled Diesel engine, 120 ... |
| tracer | ... many U.S. naval and marine aircrew were also issued red-tipped .38 Special | rounds using either a 120-grain or 158-grain bullet for emergency signalin ... |
| Greek fire | The name was once a synonym for | but now refers to any large or destructive conflagration. Wildfires differ ... |
| Jupiter | ... tally. This Navy "Jupiter" missile is not to be confused with the U.S. Army | Intermediate-range ballistic missile. At Edward Teller's prompting, the Na ... |
| Ross rifle | ... ther area of the plains was taken and, despite public protest, covered by a | factory, which included a water tank built upon the existing Martello towe ... |
| Titan II | ... from the National Museum of the United States Air Force, including an inert | missile, Site 571-7 is now known as the Titan Missile Museum and is the so ... |
| sling | ... uctantly agrees and offers his armor, which David declines, taking only his | and five stones from a brook |
| Nuclear warfare | ... es of chemical substances as weapons. This type of warfare is distinct from | and Biological warfare, which together make up NBC, the military acronym f ... |
| Titan Missile Museum | ... Force, including an inert Titan II missile, Site 571-7 is now known as the | and is the sole remaining example of a Titan II missile site in existence. ... |
| AIM-7 Sparrow | ... ) target illumination for semi-active radar-homing (SARH) missiles like the | . Block 50/52 F-16s initially used the more reliable APG-68(V)5 which has ... |
| M-16 | ... ghanistan. One military package include 2,500 Humvees, tens of thousands of | assault rifles and body armoured-jackets. It also included the building of ... |
| Brass knuckles | ... Pole match—whose name is usually derived from the object being hung; i.e. " | on a Pole", "Steel Chair on a Pole", "Singapore Cane on a Pole", "Paddle o ... |
| AIM-92 Stinger | ... ache variant is based on the AH-64A. Japan's AH-64DJP can also equipped the | air-to-air missiles for defense |
| Besa machine gun | ... r-Lyme produced the Hispano cannon, Leicester and Studley Road produced the | , Ruislip produced the Oerlikon 20mm cannon, Stafford produced rocket proj ... |
| nuclear weapon | ... en such residences as an iMac, a Palm III, a Coleco Adam on Mir, a Furby, a | guidance system, an SGI O2, a Hewlett-Packard Calculator (with reverse Pol ... |
| Poseidon | The Polaris missile was gradually replaced in the US Navy by the | missile, beginning in 1972. During the 1980s, these missiles were replaced ... |
| BB gun | ... e County, Ohio, on March 22, 1900, when the bird was killed by a boy with a | . although many unconfirmed sightings were reported in the first decade of ... |
| Martini-Henry | ... adopted by the British Army in 1888, the Lee-Enfield superseded the earlier | , Martini-Enfield, and Lee-Metford rifles. It featured a ten-round box mag ... |
| Vajra | ... ist Resource Center, his personal name) was Pema Dorje (, Vajra Lotus/Lotus | ). Later, he was placed in . In 1405, he took his novice vows from the abb ... |
| Lee-Metford | A redesign of the | which had been adopted by the British Army in 1888, the Lee-Enfield supers ... |
| SS-20 | ... ched ballistic missiles or road-mobile nuclear missiles (such as the Soviet | ) which make nuclear weapons harder to locate and target |
| MB-1 Genie | A subvariant of the Sparrow I armed with the same nuclear warhead as the | was proposed in 1958, but was cancelled shortly thereafter |
| Trident | ... s, these missiles were replaced on the ten newest missile submarines by the | I missile |
| AKM | ... d in the early 1970s in the Soviet Union as the replacement for the earlier | (itself a refined version of the AK-47). It uses a smaller intermediate ca ... |
| MBT LAW | Short range weapons offered include Carl-Gustaf, AT4/AT4 CS, STRIX and | . Missile systems offered are RBS 70, RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS 15 |
| Strela 2 | ... nd return safely. In 2006, an Apache helicopter was downed by a Soviet-made | (SA-7) in Iraq. The Apache is typically able to avoid hits by such missile ... |
| Model 1895 | ... hot Model 1885, and the lever-action Model 1886, Model 1892, Model 1894 and | rifles, most of which are still in production today in some form; over sev ... |
| AT-3 Sagger | ... antiaircraft missiles, T-55 and T-62 tanks, RPG-7 antitank weapons, and the | anti-tank guided missile from the Soviet Union and improving its military ... |
| Chevaline | ... d penetrate the ABM screen around Moscow. The result was a programme called | that added multiple decoys, chaff, and other defensive countermeasures. It ... |
| VX | ... el Box, two ships were loaded with over 100,000 shells containing Sarin and | where taken from the U.S. Army weapons storage depots such as Miesau and t ... |
| Lee-Metford | ... the Lee-Enfield superseded the earlier Martini-Henry, Martini-Enfield, and | rifles. It featured a ten-round box magazine which was loaded with the .30 ... |
| AK-47 | ... ion as the replacement for the earlier AKM (itself a refined version of the | ). It uses a smaller intermediate cartridge, the 5.45×39mm, replacing the ... |
| Death Star | ... nous orbit within the world's atmosphere, and thus is often compared to the | of Star Wars fame |
| Vajra | ... the Tibetan Buddhist Resource Center, his personal name) was Pema Dorje (, | Lotus/Lotus Vajra). Later, he was placed in . In 1405, he took his novice ... |
| Britney Spears | ... sman for such products as Viagra, Visa, Dunkin' Donuts and Pepsi-Cola (with | ), and as an occasional political commentator on the popular American inte ... |
| FIM-92 Stinger | ... mm twin cannon and SAM Roland, while the British forces used the brand-new | . Both sides also used the Blowpipe missile |
| predictor | ... eed and small size. In 1944, Bell Labs started delivery of an anti-aircraft | fire-control system based on an analog computer, just in time for the Alli ... |
| Pumpkin chunking | ... ue to fatalities, when the participants failed to land onto the safety net. | is another widely popularized use, in which people compete to see who can ... |
| artillery fortifications | ... d its economic stability in a variety of ways, including the development of | at Fort Worden. Many people left the area and many buildings were abandone ... |
| Type 92 machine gun | ... ng 7.7 mm (.303 in) Type 97 machine guns, and one flexible 7.7 mm (.303 in) | in the rear cockpit for defense. Normal bombload was a single 250 kg (550 ... |
| Blowpipe missile | ... British forces used the brand-new FIM-92 Stinger. Both sides also used the | |
| M48A3 | ... nk rocket fire, but they would not be as capable of "jungle busting" as the | medium tanks |
| M51 SLBM | ... and Mirage 2000, the Airbus A380 cockpit, the boosters of Ariane 5, and the | missile |
| MANPADS | The main | used by both sides during the Falklands War was the Blowpipe missile |
| IED | Hamas has used | s and anti-tank rockets against the IDF in Gaza. The latter include standa ... |
| RBS 70 | ... ude Carl-Gustaf, AT4/AT4 CS, STRIX and MBT LAW. Missile systems offered are | , RBS 23 BAMSE, RBS 15 |
| Martini-Enfield | ... British Army in 1888, the Lee-Enfield superseded the earlier Martini-Henry, | , and Lee-Metford rifles. It featured a ten-round box magazine which was l ... |
| Julien Temple | The music video to accompany the single was directed by | . It features members of the band wearing sleeveless shirts and dungarees |
| AIM-9X | ... faces, unrestricted by the HUD, using high-off-boresight missiles like the | |