Weapon
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
- Air to air
- Air to ground
Crossfire Blue Steel missile Blue Streak missile
- Underwater to Surface
- Warhead
- Cruise Missile
- satellite
- Tanks/Panzers/Armour
- Trucks
- Jeeps
- ship
- Submarine (also U-boat)
- Attack submarines
- Missile submarines
- 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
- civil defense
- combined arms
- Information warfare
- Cavalry
- Biological Warfare
Espionage Greek fire Hoplite Hydra 70 MGM-31 Pershing Macedonian phalanx legions Machete sword Machine gun
Medieval fortification Medieval siege weaponry ballista siege tower battering ram catapult trebuchet? siege castle city walls Medieval warfare Military tactics Military technology and equipment Militia Missile Molotov cocktail Mortar Multiple Independently Targetable Re-entry Vehicles intercontinental ballistic missile Mutual Assured Destruction National Missile Defense Naval mine Naval ships Naval warfare tactics Carrier Naval Tactics Nerve agent Nuclear Utilization Target Selection Nuclear winter OH-55 Kiowa Oliver Hazard Perry class frigate P-38 Lightning Pike Pneumatic pistol Q-Ship Rapier Reactive armor grenades shaped charge Revolver S-3 Viking SH-2 Seasprite ballistic missile Seawolf class submarine Shotgun Shrapnel ling Slingshot Small arms Sniper Sonar Soviet aircraft carrier Kuznetsov Spear Strike punch Submachine gun machine gun Torpedo Trident missile V2 rocket V bomber Vulcan