Weapons
- VX gas
- a highly lethal nerve agent used in chemical warfare; a toxic liquid that penetrates the skin or lungs to disrupt the nervous system and stop respiration; in combat VX gas is deployed by detonating a container over the target area and can persist in the environment up to several weeks after release
- Bofors gun
- an automatic double-barreled antiaircraft gun
- Dragunov
- a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight
- halberd
- a pike fitted with an ax head
- claymore
- a large double-edged broadsword; formerly used by Scottish Highlanders
- sword
- a cutting or thrusting weapon that has a long metal blade and a hilt with a hand guard
- javelin
- a spear thrown as a weapon or in competitive field events
- ABM
- a defensive missile designed to shoot down incoming intercontinental ballistic missiles
- epee
- a fencing sword similar to a foil but with a heavier blade
- light machine gun
- a submachine gun not greater than .30 millimeter
- Gatling gun
- an early form of machine gun having several barrels that fire in sequence as they are rotated
- shooting iron
- a firearm that is held and fired with one hand
- W.M.D.
- a weapon that kills or injures civilian as well as military personnel (nuclear and chemical and biological weapons)
- saber
- a stout sword with a curved blade and thick back
- SAM
- a guided missile fired from land or shipboard against an airborne target
- handbow
- a bow drawn by hand as distinguished from a crossbow
- Mauser
- trademark for a repeating rifle or pistol
- missile
- a rocket carrying a warhead of conventional or nuclear explosives; may be ballistic or directed by remote control
- pepper spray
- a nonlethal aerosol spray made with the pepper derivative oleoresin capiscum; used to cause temporary blindness and incapacitate an attacker; also used as a bear deterrent
- flintlock
- a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
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