A weapon is a tool used to multiply the amount of damage that a human can do to another human, animal or thing. A weapon may be anything from a simple lever such as a club (which increases the force of a blow through increased angular momentum) to an ICBM. Pretty much any technology can be used as a weapon. E.g. bio-weapons, eco-weapons and chemical weapons. See also netwar for a discussion on using information technology as a weapon.
Strategies, and doctrines are included here becase they fit the above definition of a weapon.
A list of common weapons, in roughly ascending technological order:
Muscle-powered personal weapons
Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles
- bomb
- Torpedo
- Missile
- Intercontinental ballistic missile
- Ballistic missile
- Air to air
- Air to ground
- Underwater to Surface
- Warhead
- Cruise Missile
- satellite
- Tanks/Panzers/Armour
- Combat Engineering Vehicles
- Truck
- Jeep
- Naval ships
- Submarine (also U-boat)
- Helicopter
- Aircraft
- Bomber
- Early warning (RADAR) Aircraft
- Ground attack and Heavy fire support
- Fighter aircraft
Doctrines
- military history
- war
- military organizations
- Conventional warfare
- navy
- army
- marine
- Air force
- Nuclear war
- Arms control