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 Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:26 pm
Alright, it seems there has been some confusion between some RPers between what each sort of weapon is, what sort is weapon belongs to what time frame, situation, whatever. Within this guide, I will be assembling a list of many weapons and their uses. The majority of them will be modern day, some historical, and then a list of weapons that will likely be continued to be used in the future (For RPs like VTV)
Give me some time, because there are a lot of weapons to be sorted with, information to be collected, and such, and I'm not a munitions expert, though by the end of this I likely will have become one. I'll also hopefully be adding a post on tanks, and aircraft, although the aircraft will likely become a separate thread, as it is my area of "expertise", and I've got a load to tell you all about 'em.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:27 pm
Reserved for future use.
Designation: Modern Firearms
Let's begin: The Rifle:
"A rifle is a firearm designed to be fired from the shoulder, with a barrel that has a helical groove or pattern of grooves ("rifling") cut into the barrel walls. The raised areas of the rifling are called "lands," which make contact with the projectile (for small arms usage, called a bullet), imparting spin around an axis corresponding to the orientation of the weapon. Rifles are used in warfare, hunting and shooting sports.
In most armed forces the term "gun" is incorrect when referring to a rifle; in the military, the word "gun" means a cannon (artillery).
EXAMPLES OF MODERN RIFLES:
Heckler & Koch G3
G3A3
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image biggrin CB_Shooting_G3_pictures.jpg
(Heckler on top, G3 on the bottom)
Type 81 Kalashnikov (Similar to the Kalashnikov 47, commonly known as AK-47)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Type-81rifle.JPG
M16 Rifles (Multiple Models)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M16a1m16a2m4m16a45wi.jpg
(The image contains multiple M16 models, names at the bottom)
NOTE: There are many other rifles of modern armies, for a list of all country's armies and their rifles, see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_service_rifles_of_national_armies
CARBINES:
A carbine is much like a rifle, but shorter and with less firepower. Many rifles of today have some sort of a carbine model
MACHINE GUNS:
Machine guns are divided into three categories:
Sub-Machine Guns
Machine Guns
Autocannons
MACHINE GUNS: Fire bullets that are originally intended for a rifle.
SUB-MACHINE GUNS: Fire bullets originally intended for a pistol, specifically a semi-automatic. Ideal for close-range combat. Have poor accuracy at longer ranges.
AUTOCANNONS: Fire bullets of a caliber of over 15mm, but most are generally over 20mm
All of these are divided into sub-groups of light, medium, and heavy machine guns.
SUBMACHINE GUNS:
Heckler & Koch MP5
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Hkmp5count-terr-wiki.jpg
MP40 9mm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Maschinenpistole_MP40.jpg
FN P90 (Yes, it is a weapon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:FN-P90.JPG
AUTOCANNONS:
XM307
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:XM307-01.jpg
M242 25mm (Mounted on M2 Bradley)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:M2Bradley-M242.jpg
MACHINE GUNS:
Browning .50 Caliber Machine Gun/ M2 Machine Gun ("Fifty-Cal")
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Machine_gun_M2_1.jpg
Most other true "Machine Guns" are types that are mounted in/on helicopters, tanks, etc. Here are a few examples. Note, odds are you wouldn't be able to carry them around with much ease. They are known as "Gatling" type machine guns. And yes, this includes the Mini Gun.
Shipunov GShG-7.62
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bc/GShG_762.JPG
M197 Gatling Gun (Apparently the internet doesn't have a modern picture of the weapon)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M197_Gatling_gun
Phalanx CIWS (Shown on a naval vessel)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:Close-In_Weapon_System.jpg
NOT YET COMPLETED
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:28 pm
Reserved for future use
Designation: Historically significant firearms & hand explosives
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:30 pm
Reserved for future use. Designation: Land Vehicles. (Tanks, Humvees, etc) Both modern & Historically significant. Modern High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HUMVEE)The High Mobility Multipurpose Wheeled Vehicle (HMMWV or Humvee) is a military 4WD motor vehicle created by AM General. There are many different variants of the Humvee, and many possible armaments it can come with. For more, read this article, which is complete with images: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Mobility_Multipurpose_Wheeled_Vehicle
Note: Not all vehicles may be "true" tanks. Some are tanks, some are armoured fighting vehicles, armoured personnel carriers, infantry fighting vehicles, tank destroyers, armoured cars, and tankettes. I will do my best to label each one and provide an example of each category.
Armoured Personnel Carrier
The Boxer
The Boxer is a German-Dutch multirole armoured fighting vehicle designed to accomplish a number of operations through the use of installable mission modules. The Boxer is an eight-wheeled MRAV, easily dwarfing most contemporary vehicles with its size. At 33 ton combat weight, it is also about 10 tons heavier than many other contemporary vehicles within the same role. It is designed to carry out a variety of utility missions with maximum flexibility; this is achieved via several different "mission modules" specialized for various tasks which are available separately from the vehicle. The base vehicle is independent of the modules, and modules can be interchanged within an hour. Each module incorporates a primary safety cell with a triple floor.
For More about the Boxer, images of the Boxer, and it's mission modules, follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boxer_(armoured_fighting_vehicle)
For more armoured personnel carriers, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armoured_personnel_carrier
Main Battle Tank
M1 Abrams
The M1 Abrams is a main battle tank produced in the United States. It is a well armed, heavily armored, and highly mobile tank designed for modern armored ground warfare.[2] Notable features of the M1 Abrams include the use of a powerful gas turbine engine, the adoption of sophisticated composite armor, and separate ammunition storage in a blow-out compartment for crew safety. It is one of the heaviest tanks in service, weighing in at close to 70 tons.
For More information, follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M1_abrams
FV4034 Challenger 2
-is a main battle tank (MBT) currently in service with the armies of the United Kingdom and Oman.The manufacturer advertises it as the world's most reliable main battle tank[2] As of January 2008, two Challenger 2s have been damaged and one destroyed (by a friendly fire engagement with another Challenger 2) in combat. Challenger 2 is equipped with an 120 mm (4.724 inch) 55 calibre long L30A1 tank gun. The secondary armament consists of an L94A1 EX-34 7.62 mm chain gun fitted to the left of the main gun. A 7.62 mm L37A2 machine gun for anti-air defence is mounted in front of the loader's hatch. 4,200 rounds of 7.62mm ammunition are carried.
For More information on the FV4034 Challenger 2, follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Challenger_2
For more Main Battle Tanks, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank
Armoured Fighting Vehicle (AFV)
The M113 is a fully tracked armored personnel carrier that formed the backbone of the US Army's mobile infantry units from the time of its introduction in the 1960s. Though it was never designed to serve as a light tank, the M113 was the most widely used armored vehicle of the US Army in the Vietnam War, earning the nickname 'Green Dragon' among the Viet Cong, and ACAV (armored cavalry assault vehicle) by the allied forces, as it was used to break through heavy thickets in the midst of the jungle to attack and overrun enemy positions.The M113 introduced new aluminum armor that made the vehicle much lighter and stiffer than earlier vehicles. This protected the crew and passengers against much of the small arms fire available to enemy infantry. Yet compared to heavier tanks, it had excellent cross-country performance and amphibious capabilities, while remaining airmobile.
The Military Channels "Top Ten" series named the M113 the most significant infantry fighting vehicle in history.
For more information, follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M113
Infantry Mobility Vehicle
Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle
The Bushmaster Protected Mobility Vehicle or Infantry Mobility Vehicle is an Australian-built wheeled armoured vehicle. It was originally designed by Perry Engineering in Adelaide with some technical support from Irish company Timoney Technology Ltd. The prototype, the basic design and the tender were acquired by Thales Australia, as Perry Engineering considered it non-core business. Once the Bushmaster was selected by the Australian Army after trials in 1998 to meet the Bushranger project requirements, the range of variants was developed further by Thales Australia in Bendigo. The role of the Bushmaster is to provide armoured transport, with infantry dismounting from the vehicle before going into action. As the Bushmaster is only lightly armoured, the term Infantry Mobility Vehicle (IMV) distinguishes it from a heavier wheeled or tracked armoured personnel carrier, such as the Pandur wheeled armour vehicle
For more information, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bushmaster_IMV
For more IMV's, follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_Mobility_Vehicle
Stryker Infantry Carrier Vehicle (ICV)
The Stryker is a family of eight-wheeled all-wheel-drive armored combat vehicles produced by General Dynamics Land Systems, in use by the United States Army. Based on the Canadian LAV III light-armored vehicle, which in turn is based on the Swiss Mowag Piranha, the Stryker is the U.S. Army's first new armored vehicle since the M2/M3 Bradley Fighting Vehicle in the 1980s.
For more information, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stryker
Infantry Fighting Vehicle
Puma IFV
The Puma is a German infantry fighting vehicle, currently in the pre-production stage. It will replace the aging Marder IFVs, from 2010 through 2020. Governing company is PSM Projekt System Management, a joint venture of Krauss-Maffei Wegmann and Rheinmetall Landsysteme. The Puma is one of the best-protected IFVs, while still having a high power/weight ratio.
For more information, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puma_(IFV)
WZ551
The WZ551 is a Chinese wheeled armored personnel carrier. Its official designation in the People's Liberation Army is Type 92. The design outwardly resembles the French VAB APC, but it is larger and heavier. Produced by Norinco, the WZ551 first appeared in 1986, but the Chinese military were not satisfied with its performance, and the design had to be modified. The definitive WZ551A entered service in 1995 as the Type 92 IFV and Type 92A APC.The IFV version is equipped with a 25 mm cannon and a 7.62 mm coaxial machine gun in a closed turret and it can carry 9 passengers. The APC version has only a 12.7 mm machine gun but can carry 11 passengers. Additional versions include anti-tank missile, command, self-propelled artillery, air defense and armored recovery vehicles.
Roughly 600 WZ551s are in service with the PLA, where they are used by light mechanized infantry units. WZ551s have been exported to Sri Lanka and Pakistan but also to Algeria and Bosnia in small numbers.
For more information, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WZ551
For more IFV's, follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infantry_fighting_vehicle
Tank Destroyer
NM142
The Norwegian Model-142 is an anti-tank variant of the American M-113 armoured personnel carrier (APC), the difference being that it is equipped with a TOW2 turret, developed in Norway by Kværner Eureka.The NM-142 mounts a turret containing a TOW2 guided anti-tank missile system with one launch tube on either side of the turret.
Additionally, mounted on the commander's hatch, there is an MG3 machine gun for use as secondary armament and in situations where the TOW2-system is unsuitable.
For more on Tank Destroyers, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tank_destroyer
Tankettes
Tankettes are no longer in production. A tankette is a type of lightly armed and armored tracked combat vehicle[1] resembling a small tank roughly the size of a car, mainly intended for light infantry support or reconnaissance.[2][3] Colloquially it may also simply mean a "small tank".[4]
Tankettes were designed and built by several nations between the 1920s and 1940s, and saw some combat (with limited success) in World War II. However, the vulnerability of their light armor eventually caused the concept to be abandoned. Tankettes at the current moment will not be listed under Historical Vehicles, because they were rather unimportant.
Currently, there exists the German Wiesel, which is similar to a tankette. If interested, please follow this link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wiesel_1
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:30 pm
Reserved for future use:
Designation: Aircraft: Airplanes (Not Helicopters)
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:32 pm
Reserved for future use.
Designation: Aircraft: Helicopters
A helicopter is an aircraft that is lifted and propelled by one or more horizontal rotors, each rotor consisting of two or more rotor blades. Helicopters are classified as rotorcraft or rotary-wing aircraft to distinguish them from fixed-wing aircraft because the helicopter achieves lift with the rotor blades which rotate around a mast. The word 'helicopter' is adapted from the French hélicoptère, coined by Gustave de Ponton d'Amecourt in 1861, which originates from the Greek helix/helik- (ἕλικ-) = "spiral" or "turning" and pteron (πτερόν) = "wing"
Helicopters are commonly divided by use. Transportation, construction, firefighting, search and rescue, and military.
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:33 pm
Reserved for future use.
Designation: Naval craft. (Boats, ships, classes of ships, etc)
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:35 pm
Historically Significant Aircraft
Bombers Avro Lancaster IMG: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Lancaster_VR-A.jpg The Avro Lancaster was a British four-engine Second World War bomber aircraft made initially by Avro for the British Royal Air Force (RAF). It first saw active service in 1942, and together with the Handley-Page Halifax it was one of the main heavy bombers of the RAF, the RCAF and squadrons from other Commonwealth and European countries serving within RAF Bomber Command. The "Lanc" or "Lankie," as it became affectionately known, became the most famous and most successful of the Second World War night bombers, "delivering 608,612 tons of bombs in 156,000 sorties." Although the Lancaster was primarily a night bomber, it excelled in many other roles including daylight precision bombing, and gained worldwide renown as the "Dam Buster" used in the 1943 Operation Chastise raids on Germany's Ruhr Valley dams. The Avro Lancaster has extensive bomb bays, at 33 feet (10.05 m) long. Initially the heaviest bombs carried were 4,000 lb (1,818 kg) "Cookies". Bulged doors were added to allow the aircraft to carry 8,000lb and later 12,000lb "Cookies". Towards the end of the war, attacking special and hardened targets, the B I Specials could carry the 21 foot (6.4 m) long 12,000 lb (5,448 kg) "Tallboy" or 25.5 foot (7.77 m) long 22,000 lb (9,979 kg) "Grand Slam" "earthquake" bombs: the Lancaster was able to deliver the heaviest bombs made. To carry the "Grand Slam" extensive modifications to the aircraft were required which led to them being redesignated as B I (Specials). The modifications included removal of the mid-upper turret, two guns from the rear turret, removal of all of the cockpit armour plating and installation of Rolls-Royce Merlin Mk 24 Engines which had better take-off performance. The bomb-bay doors were removed and the rear end of the bomb bay cut away to clear the tail of the bomb. Later the nose turret was also removed to further improve performance. The Avro Lancaster entered service in early 1942. For more on the Avro Lancaster, Please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avro_Lancaster Handley Page Halifax IMG:http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Halifax-mk3.jpg The Handley Page Halifax was one of the British front-line, four-engine heavy bombers of the Royal Air Force during the Second World War. A contemporary of the famous Avro Lancaster, the Halifax remained in service until the end of the war, performing a variety of duties in addition to bombing. The Halifax was also operated by squadrons of the Royal Australian Air Force, Royal Canadian Air Force, Royal New Zealand Air Force and Polish Air Force. The Halifax entered service with No. 35 Squadron RAF at RAF Linton-on-Ouse in November 1940 and its first operational raid was against Le Havre on the night of 11-12 March 1941. For more on the Handley Page Halifax, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Handley-Page_Halifax
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Posted: Tue Nov 25, 2008 6:37 pm
Reserved for future use.
Designation: N/A
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Posted: Fri Dec 05, 2008 12:47 pm
As by request of Brandon, we will also be having a Medieval Weaponry section, although it may take a while to complete. I'll add armour in with this section as well when I get to it. Medieval WeaponryAxesFor an overall view of axes and their history, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AxeBattle AxeA battle axe (also battle-axe or battle-ax) is an axe specifically designed as a weapon. Battle axes were specialized versions of utility axes. Many were suitable for use in one hand, while others were larger and were wielded two-handed. Axes designed for warfare ranged in weight from just over 0.5 kg to 3 kg (1 to 6 pounds), and in length from just over 30 cm to upwards of 1.5 m (1 to 5 feet), such as the Danish axe or the sparth axe. Anything longer than 1.5 m would arguably fall more into the category of polearms. Axes were always cheaper than swords and far more available. For more on battle axes and a list of several types, as well as images, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_AxeDoloireThe doloire (or wagoner's axe) intentionally handled and painstakingly honed as a weapon or a tool used during the Middle Ages and Renaissance in the form of an axe with a wooden shaft measuring approximately 1.5 metres (5 feet) in length and a head that was pointed at the top and rounded at the bottom, resembling either a teardrop or an isosceles triangle. The top of the shaft was fitted with a metal eye or socket that was welded to the head of the axe near the base of the blade with the upper part extending above the eye, while the opposite side of the socket was provided with a small blunt hammer head. The head of the axe itself measured approximately 44 cm. (17 inches) in length, uniformly decorated with punched and incised abstract floral patterns, and sharpened on the back and flattened bottom edges. For more information on doloires, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DoloireFranciscaThe francisca (or francesca) is a throwing axe used as a weapon during the Early Middle Ages by the Franks, among whom it was a characteristic national weapon at the time of the Merovingians from about 500 to 750 AD and is known to have been used during the reign of Charlemagne (768 - 814). Although generally associated with the Franks, it was also used by other Germanic peoples of the period including the Anglo-Saxons, and several examples have been found in England. For more information on Franciscas, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FranciscaMattockA mattock is a hand tool similar to a pickaxe. It is distinguished by the head, which makes it particularly suitable for digging or breaking up moderately hard ground. A mattock has a broad chisel-like blade perpendicular to the handle. During the Middle Ages of Europe, the mattock served as an improvised pole weapon for the poorer classes. For more information on mattocks, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MattockHalberdA halberd (also called Halbert or Swiss voulge) is a two-handed pole weapon that came to prominent use during the 14th and 15th centuries. Possibly the word halberd comes from the German words Halm (staff), and Barte (axe). The halberd consists of an axe blade topped with a spike mounted on a long shaft. It always has a hook or thorn on the back side of the axe blade for grappling mounted combatants. For more information on halberds, please follow this link: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Halberd
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Posted: Sat Dec 06, 2008 9:15 am
Also, I'll be eventually adding a Middle-Eastern sort of weapons, although I technically no nothing about them. But it doesn't matter, this is all mostly from wikipedia anyways.
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