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21Psychochemical weapon — The USA was highly interested in the military use of LSD Psychochemical weapons, also known as drug weapons, are psychopharmacological agents used within the context of military aggression. They fall within the range of mid spectrum agents, i.e.… …
22Nuclear weapon design — The first nuclear weapons, though large, cumbersome and inefficient, provided the basic design building blocks of all future weapons. Here the Gadget device is prepared for the first nuclear test: Trinity. Nuclear weapon designs are physical,… …
23M249 Squad Automatic Weapon — Infobox Weapon caption=The M249 SAW origin=flag|Belgium flag|United States type=Light machine gun is ranged=yes service= used by=See Users wars= designer= design date= manufacturer=FN Herstal, FN Manufacturing unit cost=US$4,087 [ [http://www.fas …
24Objective Individual Combat Weapon program — See XM29 OICW for more information on that subset of the overall program The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW refers to the next generation service rifle competition that was under development as part of the United States Army OICW… …
25Antimatter weapon — An antimatter weapon is a hypothetical device using antimatter as a power source, a propellant, or an explosive for a weapon. Antimatter weapons do not currently exist outside fiction (such as Star Trek s photon torpedo). The United States Air… …
26Special Purpose Individual Weapon — The Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) was a long running United States Army program to develop, in part, a workable flechette based rifle , though other concepts were also involved. The concepts continued to be tested under the Future… …
27Objective Individual Combat Weapon — OICW redirects here, for the Observatory of the Carnegie Institute of Washington, see Carnegie Institution for Science. An early XM8 mockup after the break up; became part of OICW Increment 1 The Objective Individual Combat Weapon or OICW was the …
28List of Major Commands of the United States Air Force — This is a list of Major Commands (MAJCOM) of the United States Air Force Historically, a MAJCOM is the highest level of command, only below Headquarters Air Force (HAF), and directly above Numbered Air Forces (NAF). The USAF is organized on a… …
29Less-lethal weapon — Less lethal weapons, less than lethal weapons, non lethal weapons, non deadly weapons, or, more recently, compliance weapons are weapons intended to be unlikely to kill or to cause great bodily injury to a living target. In the past, police (or… …
30Shoulder-launched Multipurpose Assault Weapon — SMAW SMAW being used by US Marines Type Multi role (anti fortification, anti armor) …
