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Musket
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smooth bore long gun, fired from the shoulder. Muskets were designed for use by infantry. A soldier armed with a musket had the designation musketman or musketeer.The term "musket" is applied to a variety of weapons, including the long, heavy guns with matchlock or wheel lock and loose powder fired with the gun barrel resting on a stand, and also lighter weapons with Snaphance, flintlock or caplock and bullets using a stabilizing spin (Minié ball). -
Shotgun
A shotgun is generally a smoothbore firearm, which means that the inside of the barrel is not rifled.A shotgun is also known as a scattergun and peppergun.Shotguns come in a wide variety of forms, from very small up to massive punt guns, and in nearly every type of firearm operating mechanism.
The shotgun is very popular for bird hunting. -
Machineguns
A machine gun is a fully automatic mounted or portable firearm, usually designed to fire rounds in quick succession from an ammunition belt. Machine guns are also categorized as automatics. They are normally used against unprotected or lightly protected personnel. -
Black Powder
black powder, was the first chemical explosive and the only one known. It is a mixture of sulfur, charcoal, and potassium nitrate (saltpeter) - with the sulfur and charcoal acting as fuels, while the saltpeter works as an oxidizer.Because of its burning properties and the amount of heat and gas volume that it generates, gunpowder has been widely used as a propellant in firearms and as a pyrotechnic composition in fireworks. -
Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank
The PIAT (Projector, Infantry, Anti-Tank) first came into service in late 1942. It launched a 3lb. hollow charge bomb, that was fired by a powerful spring that detonated the bomb's propellant. The PIAT weighed 32 lbs., and was odd to handle. It had a lot of recoil and was hard to reload. To help pull the spring back, soldiers would sometimesuse their feet. After it was cocked, you would place the projectile in the
spingot, and it was ready to fire. A monopod was provided for support. -
Tanks
A tank is a tracked, armoured fighting vehicle designed for front-line combat which combines operational mobility and tactical offensive and defensive capabilities. Firepower is normally provided by a large-calibre main gun in a rotating turret and secondary machine guns, while heavy armour and all-terrain mobility provide protection for the tank and its crew, allowing it to perform all primary tasks of the armoured troops on the battlefield. -
Assult Riffles
An assault rifle is an automatic rifle that uses an intermediate cartridge and a detachable magazine. Assault rifles are the standard infantry weapons in most modern armies. Assault rifles are categorized in between light machine guns, which are intended more for sustained automatic fire in a light support role, and submachine guns, which fire a pistol cartridge rather than a rifle cartridge. -
MIssile
missile is a self-propelled guided weapon system. Missiles have four system components: targeting and/or guidance, flight system, engine, and warhead. Missiles come in types adapted for different purposes: surface-to-surface and air-to-surface (ballistic, cruise, anti-ship, anti-tank), surface-to-air (anti-aircraft and anti-ballistic), air-to-air, and anti-satellite missiles.Missiles may be targeted in a number of ways. The most common method is to use some form of radiation, such as infrared -
Bombs
A bomb is any of a range (short or long distance) of explosive weapons that only rely on the exothermic reaction of an explosive material to provide an extremely sudden and violent release of energy.Nuclear fission type atomic bombs utilize the energy present in very heavy atomic nuclei, such as U-235 or Pu-239.A high explosive bomb is one that employs a process called "detonation" to rapidly release its chemical energy -
Chemical Weapons
Chemical weapons were primarily used to demoralize, injure and kill entrenched defenders, against whom the indiscriminate and generally slow-moving or static nature of gas clouds would be most effective. The types of weapons employed ranged from disabling chemicals, such as tear gas and the severe mustard gas, to lethal agents like phosgene and chlorine.
