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| x Bandolier |
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A bandolier or a bandoleer is a pocketed belt for holding ammunition. It was usually slung over the chest. In its original form, it was common issue to soldiers from the 16th to 18th centuries. This was very useful for quickly reloading a musket.
A...
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| x Barbette |
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A barbette is a protective circular armour feature around a cannon or heavy artillery gun. The name comes from the French phrase en barbette referring to the practice of firing a field gun over a parapet (defensive wall) rather than through an...
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| x Barchi |
Barchi is a type of lance with a wooden handle, once common in South Asia (the word itself is Hindi). They were common in the 16th century.
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| x Bardiche |
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A bardiche (alternatively berdiche, long poleaxe), pronounced /bɑrˈdiːʃ/, is a type of polearm that was used in medieval and renaissance Europe, especially in Eastern Europe and Russia.
The blade varied greatly in shape, but was most often a long,...
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| x Baselard |
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The baselard (also Basilard, the name is probably from the town of Basel) or "Swiss dagger" (Schweizerdolch) is a historical Swiss blade weapon with a crescent-shaped pommel and crossguard.
The baselard's characteristic hilt features a crescent...
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| x Bazalt |
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Weapons manufacturing company in Russia that took over or continued the production of weapons such as the RPG-7 after the collapse of the Soviet Union and today manufactures the RPG-7V2 and the RPG-29.
From the English page of the company website:
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| x Beam riding |
Beam-riding, also known as beam guidance, is a technique of directing a missile to its target by means of radar or a laser beam. It is one of the simplest forms of guidance using radar or lasers.
The main use of this kind of system is to destroy...
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| x Bhuj |
A Bhuj is a dagger specific to Sind in north India, mostly single-edged, except for a slight rear edge at the tip. The bhuj is short, broad and heavy, with a mild curve. It often sports an engraved and gilded mount, inlaid haft and decorated knob....
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| x Big Joe 5 crossbow |
The Big Joe 5 crossbow was a weapon developed by the Office of Strategic Services (OSS) (predecessor to Central Intelligence Agency) to be used for assassinations up to 200 meters. The weapon was created with compactness in mind. It is described in...
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| x Bilbo |
The bilbo, a thrusting-sword, seems to take its name from its place of manufacture: Bilbao (in the Basque country of northern Spain), famed for its sword-blades, and formerly known as Bilboa in English. Bilbos have well-tempered and flexible blades....
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| x Bill |
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The bill is a polearm used by infantry in Europe in the Viking Age by Vikings and Anglo-Saxons as well as in the 14th, 15th, and 16th centuries. It was a national weapon of the English, but was also common elsewhere, especially in Italy.
The bill is...
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| x Binary chemical weapon |
Binary chemical weapons or munitions are chemical weapons wherein the toxic agent is not contained within the weapon in its active state, but in the form of two chemical precursors, physically separated within the weapon. The precursors are designed...
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| x Bisento |
A Bisento is a kind of Japanese pole weapon (adopted from the Chinese Kwan-do/Guan dao) which greatly resembles a naginata. It consists of a thick curved blade mounted atop a long wooden pole. Much heavier than the naginata in construction, there is...
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| x Blaster |
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The Blaster (AKA the "BMW Flamethrower" hence the production video) was a 1998 invention by South African inventor Charl Fourie to provide a defence to carjackings. The invention came at a time when crime rates were rising and armed assault and...
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| x Bliemeister method |
The Bliemeister method, named for Louis Bliemeister, the man who patented it, is a process for making lead shot in small sizes which has largely supplanted the shot tower method. In this process, metered molten lead is dropped approximately 1 in (25...
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| x Blood agent |
A blood agent is a toxic chemical agent that affects the body by being absorbed into the blood. They are fast-acting, potentially lethal poisons that typically manifest at room temperature as volatile colorless gases with a faint odor. Blood agents...
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| x Blowdart |
A blowdart is a pipe-based weapon still employed by some indigenous peoples of the South East Asia, Amazon and Guiana regions of South America to hunt. The darts are usually dipped in curare poison in order to paralyze the target.
The weapon is used...
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| x Blue Cross |
Blue Cross (Blaukreuz) is a World War I chemical warfare agent consisting of diphenylchloroarsine (DA, Clark I), diphenylcyanoarsine (CDA, Clark II), ethyldichloroarsine (Dick), and/or methyldichloroarsine (Methyldick). Clark I and Clark II were the...
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| x Blunt instrument |
Blunt instrument is a legal description of a weapon used to hit someone, which does not have a sharp or penetrating point or edge. Their effect is usually blunt force trauma, to stun, or to break bones. They sometimes kill. Some sorts of blunt...
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| x Bohemian earspoon |
The Bohemian earspoon is a polearm with a forward-facing spear-like spike and two outward-facing spikes, similar to a boar spear.
The design is such that it can be thrust like a spear, or swung like a long pickaxe to pierce armour. See: http://www...
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| x Bollock dagger |
The bollock dagger or ballock knife is a type of dagger with a distinctively shaped shaft, with two oval swellings at the guard resembling male genitalia (or bollocks). The guard is often in one piece with the wooden grip, and reinforced on top with...
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| x Bomba a Mano |
Bomba a Mano (Italian meaning bomb by hand), is the Italian name for Hand grenade. The grenades typically take their name from their year of design, for example Mod 35 being from 1935.
Impact fuzed offensive hand grenades produced by Breda, OTO...
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| x Bombkapsel 90 |
Bombkapsel 90 (BK90) is the Swedish Air Force's nomenclature for a gliding stand-off submunitions dispenser, or cluster bomb, with 72 submunitions. It is manufactured by DaimlerChrysler Aerospace in Germany by the name of DWS 24 - Dispenser Weapon...
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| x Bombsight |
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A bombsight is a device used by bomber aircraft to accurately drop bombs. Early bombsights were nothing more than crosshairs, in the last decades, however, they correct factors affecting the ballistic trajectory of the dropped ordnance. These...
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| x Boot knife |
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A boot knife is a small fixed-blade knife that is typically carried in one's boot. They are also commonly carried on one's belt, or under ones' pants leg. They are even worn around the neck by means of a beaded chain, paracord or laniard. A knife...
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| x Bounding mine |
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A bounding mine is an anti-personnel mine designed to be used in open areas. When tripped, a small propelling charge launches the body of the mine 3-4 feet into the air, where the main charge bursts and sprays fragmentation at roughly waist height....
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| x Brandistock |
A brandistock (also called buttafuore or feather staff) was a short type of pole weapon which was used by both infantry and civilians alike between the 16th and 19th centuries. Measuring some 5 feet long, the brandistock construction was unique for...
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| x Bromobenzyl cyanide |
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Bromobenzyl cyanide (BBC) is an obsolete lachrymatory agent introduced World War I as a harassing gas by the Allied Powers.
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| x Bulawa |
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The bulawa or bulava (Polish: buława, Ukrainian and Russian: булава) was a ceremonial mace or baton carried by a hetman, an officer of the highest military rank (a Field or Grand Hetman of Poland, the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, and the Chief...
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| x Buntot Pagi |
Buntot pagi or Sting ray tail is a type of Filipino whip like weapon. Famous weapon in fighting and warding off aswangs and its like. In actual combat a Buntot Pagi is often used with a balaraw or a short knife or sword.
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| x Bushmaster II |
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The Mk44 Bushmaster II is a 30 mm chain gun manufactured by Alliant Techsystems. It is a derivative of the 25 mm M242 Bushmaster, and uses some 70% of the same parts as the M242 while increasing the firepower by as much as 50% with the 20% increase...
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| x C-6 |
C-6 or Composition C-6 is a variety of military plastic explosive. It is about 1.4 times as explosive as the much better known C-4, and about 1.8 times more explosive as trinitrotoluene (TNT).
Vulnerable to heat, C-6 was the explosive on board the...
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| x C-90 CR |
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The Instalaza C90 is a 90 mm disposable, shoulder-fired and one-man operated grenade launcher (RPG) which can be fitted with a VN38-C night vision device for full night combat capability. It was designed for use by infantry.
There are 5 versions...
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| x CAPTOR mine |
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The CAPTOR is the United States Navy's primary anti-submarine naval mine. This deep-water mine is laid by ship, aircraft or submarine, and is anchored to the ocean floor. When its sonar detects a hostile submarine, the CAPTOR launches a Mark 46...
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| x CBRN |
For the cyanogen bromide molecular formula, follow CBrN
CBRN is an acronym for chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear. It is in common use worldwide, to refer to incidents or weapons in which any of these four hazards have presented...
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| x CBU-107 Passive Attack Weapon |
The CBU-107 Passive Attack Weapon is an air-dropped guided bomb containing 3,750 non-explosive steel and tungsten penetrator rods of various sizes. It was designed to attack targets where an explosive effect may be undesirable, such as fuel storage...
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| x CBU-26 |
The CBU-24 (Cluster Bomb Unit-24) is a weapon developed by the United States for anti personnel purposes.
The weapon contains 665 BLU-26 tennis ball-sized submunitions, each designed to detonate with 600 metal fragments for an anti-personnel/anti...
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| x CBU-75 |
The CBU-75 Sadeye was a United States cluster bomb used during the Vietnam War. It could hold 1,800 one pound BLU-46 anti-personnel bomblets, each of which containing 0.7 pound of explosives with impact or time delay fuzes that would produce around...
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| x CN gas |
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Phenacyl chloride is a substituted acetophenone. It is a useful building block in organic chemistry. Apart from that, it has been historically used as a riot control agent, where it is designated CN.
Phenacyl chloride is readily available...
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| x CN-105-57 |
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CN-105-57 is a French 105 mm tank gun of 57 calibre length.
The CN-105-57 notably equipped some variants of the AMX-13 and the SK-105 Kurassier.
Argentina produced a version for use on their TAM medium tank which equipped later models.
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| x COW 37 mm gun |
The COW 37 mm gun was a British automatic cannon that was developed as an aircraft weapon but did not enter general service.
Coventry Ordnance Works had been set up in 1905 by a consortium of British shipbuilding firms (John Brown, Cammell Laird and...
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| x Cable-backed bow |
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A cable-backed bow is a bow reinforced with a cable on the back. The cable is made from either animal, vegetable or synthetic fibers and is tightened to increase the strength of the bow. A cable will relieve tension stress from the back of the bow...
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| x Canal Defence Light |
Canal Defence Light (CDL) was a British "secret weapon" of the Second World War.
It was based upon the use of a powerful carbon-arc searchlight to dazzle and confuse enemy troops. A demonstration had shown that the use of a vehicle mounted...
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| x Cawood sword |
The Cawood sword is regarded as "one of the finest Viking swords ever discovered". It is nearly 1,000 years old and is the fifth sword of its type ever to be found and by far the best preserved.
The sword was found in the River Ouse near Cawood in...
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| x Ceremonial weapon |
A ceremonial weapon is an object used for ceremonial purposes to display power or authority. They are often used in parades, and as part of dress uniforms.
Although they are descended from weapons used in actual combat, they are not used as such....
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| x Chacing staff |
A chasing staff is a kind of polearm that was used in the Middle Ages of Europe. It consisted of an iron-shod staff some 10-12 feet long, with a spike on the butt end and a metal head at the other. The head was made of a large, flat 'blade' which...
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| x Chainlock |
A Chainlock, also known as a smiley is an improvised weapon which consists of a length of chain or strong cloth attached to a large lock or other piece of metal. The Chainlock is mainly used in areas where other hand held weapons are not readily...
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| x Changdao | Republic of China |
Changdao (simplified Chinese: 长刀; traditional Chinese: 長刀), literally meaning "long knife," was a type of anti-cavalry sword used in China during the Ming Dynasty. Sometimes called Miao dao (a similar but more recent weapon), the blade greatly...
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| x Chen-3 bottom mine |
The Sinking-3 (沉-3, or Chen-3) is a Chinese naval mine. It was is the successor of Sinking-2 (Chen-2) bottom mine, and it was jointly developed by the Vanguard Instrumentation Factory (前卫仪表厂) and Suzhou Maritime Machinery Factory (苏州船用机械厂) in 1974....
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| x Chen-4 bottom mine |
Sinking-4 (沉-4, or Chen-4) bottom mine is a small Chinese naval mine with non-contact fuses. It was jointly developed by the 710th Research Institute and the Eastern Wind Instrumentation Factory (东风仪表厂). This mine is the bottom mine counterpart of...
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| x Chigriki |
The chigiriki was a Japanese weapon developed during the Edo period. It consisted of a staff with a weighted chain on the end, sometimes retractable. The stick was usually as long as the wielder's forearm, while the length of the chain was not set....
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| x Chinese swords |
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Chinese swords have a long history in China. Stone swords were used in prehistoric times. Bronze swords have been traced back to the bronze daggers of the Western Zhou period, but did not come into common use until the Eastern Zhou period. Bronze...
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| x Chisakatana |
A chisakatana (小さ刀, chisakatana) is a shortened katana. A katana was two shaku or longer in length (one shaku = about 11.93 inches, roughly rounded up to approximately one foot). However, a chisakatana is longer than the wakizashi, which was...
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| x Cinquedea |
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The Cinquedea is a civilian short sword (or long dagger). It was developed in northern Italy and enjoyed a period of popularity during the Italian renaissance of the 15th and early 16th centuries.
The name means "five fingers", and it describes the...
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| x Claybeg |
The claybeg (Gaelic for small sword) was a mediaeval edged weapon used in Scotland. It is considered the smaller counterpart of the claymore.
The broadsword or "claybeg" is actually a Venetian "schiavona" which made its way to Scotland in the...
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| x Clipeus |
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In the military of classical antiquity, a clipeus (Ancient Greek: ἀσπίς) was a large shield worn by the Greeks and Romans as a piece of defensive armor, which they carried upon the arm, to secure them from the blows of their enemies. It was round in...
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| x Clubbing axe |
A clubbing axe is a boffering (foam fighting) weapon which is 50 to 60 inches long which has a blade and handle of equal length. It can be used like a club, hence the name, but can also be handled as a two-handed sword. It is a two-handed weapon...
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| x Coaxial weapon |
A coaxial weapon is a weapon system that is mounted side-by-side with the main weapon system, usually on a tank. Despite the name, a coaxial weapon is not coaxial; a better term might be paraxial.
Nearly all main battle tanks have a coaxial machine...
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| x Cold Steel |
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Cold Steel is a Ventura, California-based marketer of knives, swords and other edged weapons and tools. Cold Steel was founded in 1980 by company president, Lynn C. Thompson. Its products are manufactured in various countries including Japan, Taiwan...
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| x Cold weapon |
A cold weapon is any weapon that does not involve fire or explosions (such as the act of combustion) as a result from the use of gun powder or explosive materials. Ranged weapons that do not include gun powder or explosive materials and mêlée...
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