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  2. List of military weapons of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all military weapons ever used by the United States. This list will include all lists dealing with US weapons to show all weapons ever used by the United States of America. American Revolution

  3. Early modern warfare - Wikipedia

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    Early modern warfare is the era of warfare during early modern period following medieval warfare.It is associated with the start of the widespread use of gunpowder and the development of suitable weapons to use the explosive, including artillery and firearms; for this reason the era is also referred to as the age of gunpowder warfare (a concept introduced by Michael Roberts in the 1950s).

  4. List of military strategies and concepts - Wikipedia

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    Decapitation – Achieving strategic paralysis by targeting political leadership, command and control, strategic weapons, and critical economic nodes; Deception – A strategy that seeks to deceive, trick, or fool the enemy and create a false perception in a way that can be leveraged for a military advantage

  5. List of infantry weapons in the American Revolution - Wikipedia

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    The "Brown Bess" muzzle-loading smoothbore musket was one of the most commonly used weapons in the American Revolution. While this was the main British musket, it was briefly used by the Americans until 1777. This musket was used to fire a single shot ball, or a cluster style shot which fired multiple projectiles giving the weapon a "shotgun ...

  6. List of weapons in the American Civil War - Wikipedia

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    One weapon which saw an unexpected revival during the Civil War was the pike. The Confederacy in particular suffered from a shortage of modern weapons, and by 1862 prominent military leaders like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson advocated the manufacture and distribution of pikes as a stopgap measure.

  7. List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces - Wikipedia

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    Within the Table of Organization and Equipment for both the United States Army and the United States Marine Corps, these two classes of weapons are considered as crew-served; the operator of the weapon has an assistant who carries additional ammunition and associated equipment, acts as a spotter, and is also fully qualified in the operation of ...

  8. List of military equipment of the United States - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of all military equipment ever used by the United States. This list will deal with all the equipment ever used by all branches of the United States Armed Forces. The list will include lists of all military equipment ever used by a certain branch of the US armed forces as well as all US military equipment in a certain time period ...

  9. History of weapons - Wikipedia

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    Old Japanese weapons and other military paraphernalia, c. 1892–95 A Gilbertese shark-toothed weapon (late 19th century). Major innovations in the history of weapons have included the adoption of different materials – from stone and wood to different metals, and modern synthetic materials such as plastics – and the developments of different weapon styles either to fit the terrain or to ...