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Welcome to the Weaponry task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below.

The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here.

Scope

This task force covers all topics related to weaponry, including weapons, armor, explosives, ammunition, and armoured fighting vehicles; it can be considered to be a subgroup of the

military science and technology task force
, whose scope includes every such topic.

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Participants

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  1. talk · contribs
    ) (Anything really)
  2. A 10 fireplane (talk · contribs) (US Navy ships)
  3. Buster40004 (talk · contribs) (Japanese and American Armor and Artillery and Coast Artillery 1920-1970)
  4. Cdtuba (talk · contribs)
  5. Cirt (talk · contribs) (interested in researching biological warfare)
  6. Corvus coronoides (talk · contribs) (Medieval Weapons)
  7. Dhatfield (talk · contribs) (AFVs, esp. tank)
  8. DPdH (talk · contribs) (Main interests => Artillery, Firearms/Infantry weapons, AFV's & other military vehicles, Aircraft weapons/ordnance, Naval weapons/ordnance & military ships, Rockets & Missiles. Historical periods: WW1, WW2, Cold War, current. Countries/Regions: South America esp. Argentina, GB, USA, Germany, NATO, ex-Warsaw Pact).
  9. Gadget850 (talk · contribs) (Pershing missile; Bradley FV; M113 APC)
  10. Georgewilliamherbert (talk · contribs) (nuclear weapons, firearms, heavy weapons, technology)
  11. GreyPage (talk · contribs) (WWII tech and general weapon tech)
  12. Ghost Lourde (talk · contribs) (Chiefly HEMA/medieval warfare oriented interests)
  13. Iazyges (talk · contribs) Roman stuff.
  14. Ironarcher13 (talk · contribs) (Anti-Tank Guided Missiles)
  15. talk · contribs
    )
  16. Kylesenior (talk · contribs) Nuclear weapons
  17. Loafiewa (talk · contribs) Mostly small arms and AFVs
  18. MagicManLeFlurr (talk · contribs) (Nuclear Weapons)
  19. MChew (talk · contribs) (WWII and earlier Japanese weaponry)
  20. Mike Searson (talk · contribs) (USMC history, Small Arms, swords, and knives.)
  21. Mzajac (talk · contribs) (AFVs, especially Soviet and CIS)
  22. Niteshift36 (talk · contribs) (modern arms and tactics)
  23. Phichanad (talk · contribs) (Philippine Military)
  24. Pudeo (talk · contribs) (Mostly WWII weaponry, from that mostly Finnish..)
  25. RobDuch (talk · contribs) (US coast artillery and railroad weapons, some naval guns and missiles)
  26. Sp33dyphil (talk · contribs) (AGMs, AIMs, PGMs, cruise missiles, LGBs, GBUs, ICBMs)
  27. SirGents (talk · contribs) (Nuclear weaponry, missiles, and vehicular weaponry)
  28. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) (WW I-present artillery, AFVs, aircraft)
  29. Swatjester (talk · contribs) (Modern small arms, SOF equipment, air and missile defense.)
  30. theattackcorgi (talk · contribs) (everything.)
  31. The Bushranger (talk · contribs)
  32. Yuriybrisk (talk · contribs) (Russian SAM systems)
  33. talk · contribs
    )
  34. Thehistorianisaac (talk · contribs)
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Resources

  • US Army's Army Heritage Collection Online Check out the digital resources online. There are many field manuals and technical manuals for American equipment, a British-American "dictionary" dating from WWII, a similar German-American dictionary, and other resources broken down (generally) by era. Most resources are in PDF format and some are rather large.
  • J. Howard Mathews, Firearms identification: The laboratory examination of small arms, rifling characteristics in handguns, and notes on the automatic pistols., Vol.I., Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield Ill., 1973 [1]