Weapons – the general name of devices, objects and means structurally designed to kill or disable people and animals and/or to disable the equipment and facilities of parties, voluntarily or involuntarily involved in any conflict. Here is a list of both actual and fictional weapons.

Pistol

A hand-held short-barreled non-automatic or semi-automatic (less often automatic) firearm or pneumatic weapon. Designed usually to engage targets at ranges of up to 25-50 meters. Early pistols were usually single-shot, with a smooth or rifled barrel. Modern guns are mostly semi-automatic, rifled, multi-shot (5-7 to 15-20 or more rounds). An individual hand-held, automatic, continuous-fire, handgun weapon that uses a pistol cartridge to fire.

Submachine gun

or automatic carbine, in foreign literature also assault rifle- a hand-held individual automatic firearm designed to engage enemy manpower in close combat and capable of producing a high density of fire.

Automatic Rifle

individual small arms under rifle-gun or intermediate ammunition, capable of firing both bursts and single shots.

Grenade launcher

A portable firearm designed to engage enemy equipment, structures or manpower by firing a round of ammunition significantly larger in caliber than a small arms round. The ammunition in a grenade launcher is called a grenade (grenade launcher round).

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