Weapons
- slasher
- a weapon (a sword or dagger) used for slashing
- machine gun
- a rapidly firing automatic gun (often mounted)
- precision rifle
- an extremely powerful rifle developed for the military; capable of destroying light armored vehicles and aircraft more than a mile away
- ballistic missile
- a missile that is guided in the first part of its flight but falls freely as it approaches target
- forty-five
- a .45-caliber pistol
- twenty-two rifle
- a .22-caliber rifle
- space probe
- a rocket-propelled guided missile that can escape the earth's atmosphere; makes observations of the solar system that cannot be made by terrestrial observation
- broadsword
- a sword with a broad blade and (usually) two cutting edges; used to cut rather than stab
- Browning machine gun
- a belt-fed machine gun capable of firing more than 500 rounds per minute; used by United States troops in World War II and the Korean War
- fencing sword
- a sword used in the sport of fencing
- heat-seeking missile
- a missile with a guidance system that directs it toward targets emitting infrared radiation (as the emissions of a jet engine)
- kris
- a Malayan dagger with a wavy blade
- firelock
- a muzzle loader that had a flintlock type of gunlock
- nitrochloromethane
- gaseous form of chloropicrin used as tear gas
- trident
- a spear with three prongs
- arrow
- a projectile with a straight thin shaft and an arrowhead on one end and stabilizing vanes on the other; intended to be shot from a bow
- yataghan
- a long Turkish knife with a curved blade having a single edge
- megaton bomb
- a nuclear weapon with an explosive power equivalent to one million tons of TNT
- BB shot
- a small pellet fired from an air rifle or BB gun
- chemical weapon
- chemical substances that can be delivered using munitions and dispersal devices to cause death or severe harm to people and animals and plants
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