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Parent topics
- Firearm [r]: Device, often designed to be used as a weapon, which projects either single or multiple projectiles at high velocity, using the energy of gases generated by a controlled explosion. [e]
- Cannon [r]: Sizable crew-served weapons, which fire projectiles through a tube called a barrel. [e]
- Small arms [r]: A firearm, for sporting or military use, intended to be carried and operated by a single person [e]
Subtopics
- Air rifle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Submachine gun [r]: A firearm that can shoot a pistol cartridge (i.e., less powerful than a rifle cartridge) in full-automatic mode [e]
- Thompson submachine gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Heckler and Koch G5 [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Sten (submachine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- MG42 (submachine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M3 (submachine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- PPSh41 (submachine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Reising submachine gun [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Skorpion (submachine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Anti-aircraft artillery [r]: A general term for guns that can elevate to high angles and shoot accurately at aircraft, using visual, electro-optical, or radar guidance. [e]
- 20mm Oerlikon (autocannon) [r]: A manually tracked piece of anti-aircraft artillery widely used on ships of the U.S. Navy and other navies during World War II. [e]
- ZSU-23 [r]: A Soviet-developed radar-directed 23mm self-propelled autocannon, primarily intended for low-altitude antiaircraft but capable of engaging ground targets; extremely widely deployed [e]
- 40mm Bofors (autocannon) [r]: An antiaircraft (AA) gun used on almost every major U.S. and U.K. warship of World War II. [e]
- S-60 [r]: A Soviet 57mm anti-aircraft artillery piece, introduced in the 1950s and replaced by missiles as the division-level air defense weapon. [e]
- 88mm cannon [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Rifle [r]: Primarily a shoulder-filed individual weapon, used for hunting, target shooting, and infantry combat; the term may also apply to larger artillery pieces with rifled barrels that impart stabilizing spin to their projectiles [e]
- Assault rifle [r]: An individual weapon intended for infantry combat, which fires an intermediate-power cartridge, has a large magazine, and can fire fixed bursts (usually 3 shots) or in full-automatic mode [e]
- AK-47 [r]: The world's most common assault rifle, firing a 7.62mm bullet, but with reduced-power propellant and larger magazines that comparable battle rifles using the same caliber; there are variants that use lighter bullets [e]
- M16 rifle [r]: The primary U.S. infantry rifle, an assault rifle firing 5.56mm intermediate power ammunition; M4 (rifle) is the carbine (i.e., shorter-length) version [e]
- Infantry rifle [r]: Add brief definition or description
- .303 Lee-Enfield [r]: Add brief definition or description
- M1903 Springfield rifle [r]: Standard U.S. infantry rifle of the First World War, with limited use in WWII and continued value as a sporting weapon [e]
- M1 Garand rifle [r]: Principal U.S. infantry rifle of World War II, firing .30-06 ammunition semi-automatically from an 8-round clip [e]
- Moisin-Nagant [r]: (also Mosin-Nagant) Russian-designed infantry rifle, bolt-operated from an internal magazine, chambered for 7.62mm ammunition; design began in 1883 but weapons were used into the Second World War and in smaller conflicts [e]
- Automatic rifle [r]: Infantry rifle firing a full-power cartridge from a detachable magazine, used from the shoulder or from a bipod support; could substitute for a light machine gun but with much less ammunition; obsolete after WWII [e]
- Bren (automatic rifle) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Chauchat [r]: French-designed 8mm infantry weapon variously considered an automatic rifle, submachine gun, or light machine gun; often considered the all-time least reliable design of any and all of the designations, with innovative features that caused problems never before considered [e]
- Browning Automatic Rifle [r]: An early automatic rifle, sometimes classed as a light machine gun [e]
- Assault rifle [r]: An individual weapon intended for infantry combat, which fires an intermediate-power cartridge, has a large magazine, and can fire fixed bursts (usually 3 shots) or in full-automatic mode [e]
- Field artillery [r]: Mobile artillery for tactical use, towed by another vehicle, self-propelled, or rarely man- or vehicle-portable [e]
- 105mm howitzer [r]: Common caliber for light howitzers; principally used for specialized applications where weight is critical, such as aircraft use on the AC-130 or wheeled fire support vehicles [e]
- 130mm gun [r]: An older piece of Soviet-designed artillery, which outranged most light (105mm) and medium 155mm howitzers of its time [e]
- 155mm howitzer [r]: Implemented in self-propelled or lightweight towed versions, this howitzer size, with slight variations in caliber, is the world's most common medium artillery type [e]
- 8" howitzer [r]: Usually considered the most accurate of howitzers, gradually was displaced, due to its weight and size, by improved 155mm howitzers and guided missiles; towed and self-propelled (SP) versions; U.S. SP version shared chassis with 175mm gun [e]
- 175mm gun [r]: Vietnam-era long-range U.S. field artillery rifle, outranging Soviet 130mm gun; longer range but smaller shell than 8" howitzer; shared chassis with U.S. 8" howitzer; displaced by guided missiles [e]
- Machine gun [r]: A firearm capable not only of full-automatic fire, but with additional features, such as large ammunition supply mechanisms, barrel cooling or quick-change features, etc., that lets it fire for prolonged periods [e]
- M60 machine gun [r]: A widely used, U.S. designed medium machine gun firing 7.62mm NATO-standard rifle ammunition, but not itself being a NATO standard weapon [e]
- M240 machine gun [r]: U.S. and NATO standard medium machine gun, firing NATO 7.62mm ammunition [e]
- M249 machine gun [r]: U.S. standard light machine gun, also called the squad automatic weapon, firing 5.56mm ammunition, and is a derivative of the Belgian FN MINIMI (machine gun) [e]
- M2 machine gun [r]: A .50 caliber heavy machine gun, designed at the end of the First World War, which remains, after only slight modifications, in U.S. and worldwide service in infantry, vehicle, naval and aircraft applications [e]
- Dshka (machine gun) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Musket [r]: An obsolete, unrifled small arm fired from the shoulder; it is muzzle-loaded and uses black gunpowder [e]
- Naval gun [r]: Artillery weapons on ships, and techniques and devices for aiming them. [e]
- 57mm naval gun [r]: An increasingly common light naval dual-purpose gun; modern versions are usually full automatic and thus can deliver a volume of fire equivalent to guns of larger caliber [e]
- 76mm naval gun [r]: As 76mm or 3-inch, this has been a standard light naval dual-purpose gun caliber of many navies; new full automatic weapons with advanced ammunition can be comparable to older medium weapons [e]
- 4.5" naval gun [r]: Actually 4.45", this caliber has been the standard medium naval gun of the Royal Navy since 1938; post-WWII use is principally for naval gunfire support [e]
- 5"-38 caliber gun [r]: A dual purpose (DP) gun, effective for both surface and antiaircraft use, mounted on very many U.S. Navy ships in the World War II era, but which has disappeared from service today. [e]
- 5"-54 caliber gun [r]: Until the introduction of the 5"-62 caliber gun, the primary medium naval gun of U.S. warships after the Second World War [e]
- 5"-62 caliber gun [r]: The main gun for shore bombardment and some anti-surface warfare on newer U.S. Navy warships; the successor to 5"-54 caliber guns. [e]
- 8" naval gun [r]: A heavy naval gun, the point of reference for a heavy cruiser main battery as defined by the Washington Naval Treaty; often considered the heaviest practical caliber for naval gunfire support [e]
- 16"-45 caliber MK 6 naval gun [r]: Main gun of the U.S. North Carolina and South Dakota-class battleships [e]
- 16"-50 caliber MK 7 naval gun [r]: Main battery guns of the battleships of the U.S. Navy's Iowa-class [e]
- 18.1"-45 caliber naval gun [r]: Largest caliber naval gun ever deployed on a battleship; used by the Japanese Yamato-class but never fired against a ship or shore target [e]
- Pistol [r]: A firearm intended primarily to be operated while held in the user's hand [e]
- M1911 (pistol) [r]: A .45 caliber semiautomatic pistol designed by John Moses Browning in 1905, and produced as the U.S. Army standard sidearm from 1911 to 1945, and used long afterwards [e]
- M9 (pistol) [r]: Add brief definition or description
- Revolver [r]: A repeating firearm that has a cylinder containing multiple chambers and at least one barrel for firing. [e]
- Shotgun [r]: An individual weapon used in sport, police, or military applications, generally firing multiple small projectiles ("shot") rather than a single bullet [e]
- Gun control [r]: Policy of restricting or banning gun ownership by private citizens, varying widely among countries and cultures; may extend to other weapons [e]
