While ballistic missiles were the preferred weapons for land targets, heavy nuclear and conventional tipped cruise missiles were seen by the USSR as a primary weapon to destroy US naval carrier battle groups.

Some weapons, such as the AR-15 / M16, do not have a piston, instead using a system of direct impingement in which the gases operate the bolt carrier by acting directly on it.

A dedicated carrier of thermobaric weapons is the purpose-built TOS-1, a 30-tube MLRS designed to fire 220 mm caliber thermobaric rockets.

The aircraft carrier had replaced the battleship as the Fleet's capital ship and its aircraft were now strike weapons in their own right.

They wore French uniforms, flak jackets and helmets, were armed with French weapons and drove a French armoured personnel carrier ( APC )-all stolen from UN troops detained outside the city.

An hour later, RAF Typhoons strafed ' B ' Company / US 120th Infantry Regiment on Hill 285, killing a driver of a weapons carrier.

Both weapons used the same projectile, and were either mounted on a tripod launcher transported by an armored personnel carrier, or they were carried by a Jeep ( M-38 & later M-151 ).

STRIKEFORSOUTH was effectively the NATO designation for the U. S. Sixth Fleet, though additional NATO headquarters personnel would eventually be assigned, while maintaining American control over its nuclear weapons on board U. S. aircraft carrier as mandated by the Atomic Energy Act of 1946.

In March 1960 he was designated a Naval Aviator and proceeded to NAS Key West, for weapons system and carrier landing training in the F-6A Skyray.

The Halo series takes this concept a step further, preventing the flag carrier from using weapons at all, unless the carrier willfully drops the flag, though the flag-carrier can still board vehicles as a passenger ( Halo 2 and 3 ) or as the driver ( 1 only ).

Italian aircraft employ three new weapons for the first time: the motobomba torpedo, a new bomb dropped by Re. 2001 fighters designed to cause maximum damage on aircraft carrier flight decks, and an explosive-laden unmanned Savoia-Marchetti SM. 79 bomber controlled as a guided missile by a CANT floatplane.

The P-700 was designed in the 1970s to replace the P-70 Ametist and P-120 Malakhit, both effective missiles but with too short a range in the face of improving weapons of U. S. Navy carrier battle groups.

He outlined uses for the Juno V as a general carrier vehicle for research and development of " offensive and defensive space weapons.

As part of his development to that end, he served an existing knight as an attendant or shield carrier, doing simple but important tasks like saddling a horse or caring for the knight's weapons and armour.

* In Stephen Coonts ' novel Final Flight, terrorists set out to steal nuclear weapons from the aircraft carrier USS United States, anchored off Naples, Italy.

The Wiesel Armoured Weapons Carrier is a German light air-transportable armoured fighting vehicle, more specifically a lightly armoured weapons carrier.

In WWII the aircraft carrier replaced the battleship as the most powerful naval offensive weapons system as battles between fleets were increasingly fought out of gun range by aircraft.

* Wiesel AWC: armoured weapons carrier in different versions

The other vehicles were named to reflect their function ; Striker anti – tank guided weapons, Spartan armoured personnel carrier ; Samaritan ambulance ; Sultan command and control and Samson recovery vehicles.

This is not generally true however, as the operation of basic open bolt weapons sends the bolt carrier back into a cocked position via the excess gas from the spent round.

This can also be used to designate a carrier for electronics or weapons systems.

If the President ( who is Commander-in-Chief ) decided to order the use of nuclear weapons, he would be taken aside by the " carrier " and the briefcase opened.

The helicopter may be solely a weapons carrier or it can have submarine detection capabilities.

Another took off his gun belt and flung his weapons to the floor.

Also per the report, the Absalon took the sailors and weapons aboard, sunk the craft, and turned the sailors over to the Yemen coast guard.

He managed to move the rock and took his father's weapons.

He took the youth on as his weapons bearer and beloved.

Its highest development took place under Shaka, initiator of several important organizational, weapons and tactical innovations.

Although longbows were much faster and more accurate than the black powder weapons which replaced them, longbowmen always took a long time to train because of the years of practice necessary before a war longbow could be used effectively ( examples of longbows from the Mary Rose typically had draws greater than ).

A telling incident took place after the battle, a testimony to Mieszko's high standing among the Empire's dignitaries, just one year after his baptism: Widukind of Corvey reported that the dying Wichmann asked Mieszko to hand over Wichmann's weapons to Emperor Otto I, to whom Wichmann was related.

They made weapons and tools, took care of the roofs of their homes and often helped their men hunt bison.

As chemical weapons, they are classified as weapons of mass destruction by the United Nations according to UN Resolution 687 ( passed in April 1991 ) and their production and stockpiling was outlawed by the Chemical Weapons Convention of 1993 ; the Chemical Weapons Convention officially took effect on April 29, 1997.

In the United Kingdom, the first Aldermaston March organised by the Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament took place at Easter 1958, when several thousand people marched for four days from Trafalgar Square, London, to the Atomic Weapons Research Establishment close to Aldermaston in Berkshire, England, to demonstrate their opposition to nuclear weapons.

In an interview in 2000, Mikhail Gorbachev, in response to the comment " In the 1980s, you warned about the unprecedented dangers of nuclear weapons and took very daring steps to reverse the arms race ," said " Models made by Russian and American scientists showed that a nuclear war would result in a nuclear winter that would be extremely destructive to all life on Earth ; the knowledge of that was a great stimulus to us, to people of honor and morality, to act in that situation.

Their development as practical weapons took another decade of development in the United States and in the U. S. S. R.

It was, however, pointed out by critics that such an extensive use of nuclear weapons as to leave persistent and widespread radiation even after centuries would have completely destroyed all life on Earth at the moment when it took place.

As for firearms, Shaka acknowledged their utility as missile weapons after seeing muzzle-loaders demonstrated, but argued that in the time a gunman took to reload, he would be swamped by charging spear-wielding warriors.

Award of the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory contract to LLNS LLC took effect October 1, 2007, rounding out Bechtel's control of the bulk of the US nuclear weapons facilities including LANL ( design ), LLNL ( design ), Savannah River Site ( nuclear materials ), Hanford Site ( nuclear materials ), Pantex Plant ( assembly / disassembly ), and Y-12 National Security Complex ( nuclear materials ).

Clio spiked the fort's eight 18-pounder guns, and took all the smaller guns and weapons before leaving.

After the 11 September 2001 attacks and the 2001 anthrax attacks, an increased fear of non-conventional weapons and asymmetrical warfare took hold of the United States and other Western powers.

As weapons have grown more precise, the need for mass formations dropping masses of bombs has decreased, and it is now possible for a single bomb to accomplish what in the past took many bombers.

It took another two years until all the tactical nuclear weapons were fully equipped with PALs.

Iraqi security forces had on several occasions physically prevented weapons inspectors from doing their job and in at least one case, took documents away from them.

Þjazi's daughter, Skaði, took a helmet, a coat of mail, and " all weapons of war " and traveled to Asgard, the home of the gods.

In exchange, Bokassa frequently took d ' Estaing on hunting trips in Central Africa and supplied France with uranium, which was vital for France's nuclear energy and weapons program in the Cold War era.

The weapons, two Mark 39 thermonuclear bombs ( identified from declassified Department of Energy films and photographs ) were destroyed on impact though no explosion took place, and there was no release of radioactive material as a result.