The maneuvers were held `` in secret '' after a regional seminar for the Minutemen, held in nearby Shiloh, Ill., had been broken up the previous day by deputy sheriffs, who had arrested regional leader Richard Lauchli of Collinsville, Ill., and seized four operative weapons, including a Browning machine gun, two Browning automatic rifles and an M-4 rifle.

Railroads, the telegraph, steamships, and mass-produced weapons were employed extensively.

Many ironclads were built to make use of the ram or the torpedo, which a number of naval designers considered the crucial weapons of naval combat.

The light tanks that were the last descendants of the light cavalry during the Second World War have almost completely disappeared from the world's militaries due to increased lethality of the weapons available to the vehicle-mounted infantry.

Current weapons were either based on jeeps or small tracked vehicles and the airborne troops thus always fought at a distinct disadvantage in terms of heavy weapons.

Although the early German Panzerjäger carried more effective weapons than the tanks on which they were based, they were generally lacking in protection for the crew, having thinly armored open-topped superstructures.

At the beginning of the twentieth century, a number of military armored vehicles were manufactured by adding armor and weapons to existing vehicles.

As early as 1966, resolutions were introduced to the United Nations charging that the U. S. was violating the 1925 Geneva Protocol, which regulated the use of chemical and biological weapons.

Most commonly the carvings of ivory and wood were for the purpose of hunting weapons.

An ASROC missile could hypothetically carry a 10 kiloton W44 nuclear warhead, although the W44-armed nuclear weapons were retired by 1989, and all types of nuclear depth bombs were removed from deployment.

At the start of the Cold War, bombers were the only means to take nuclear weapons to enemy targets, and had the role of deterrence.

Tools, weapons, armor, and various building materials, like decorative tiles, made of bronze were harder and more durable than their stone and copper (" Chalcolithic ") predecessors.

But the sources suggest the Batavi were able to swim across rivers actually wearing full armour and weapons.

The most recognisable type of boomerang is the returning boomerang ; while non-returning boomerangs, throwing sticks ( or shaunies ) were used as weapons, returning boomerangs have been used primarily for leisure or recreation.

The biological and chemical weapons developed during that period were tested at the Dugway Proving Grounds in Utah.

Considerable research into biological warfare was undertaken throughout the Cold War era ( 1947 – 1991 ) by the U. S., U. K. and U. S. S. R., and probably other major nations as well, although it is generally believed that such weapons were never used.

Countries began to develop weapons which were much more effective, and much less likely to cause infection to the wrong party.

As the 1970s passed, global efforts to prevent the development of biological weapons and their use were widespread.

It was here that most losses were inflicted upon the enemy, primarily through the capture of prisoners and weapons.

Among the evidence presented to the tribunal were the results of paraffin tests, used to identify lead residues from firing weapons, and that nail bombs had been found on the body of one of those killed.

Although the Nationalists had an advantage in numbers of men and weapons, initially controlled a much larger territory and population than their adversaries, and enjoyed considerable international support, they were exhausted by the long war with Japan and the attendant internal responsibilities.

The latter were promised amnesty, allowed to retain their weapons.

At the same time, he became an Arab nationalist and began procuring weapons to be smuggled into the former British Mandate of Palestine, for use by irregulars in the Arab Higher Committee and the Army of the Holy War militias.

By 17 April 1948 the situation in Palestine had deteriorated further and the Security Council adopted Resolution 46 ( 1948 ), calling upon all persons and organizations in Palestine to immediately cease all military activities, as well as acts of violence, terrorism and sabotage ; to refrain from any actions endangering the safety of the Holy Places in Palestine and refrain from importing or acquiring or assisting or encouraging the importation or acquisition of weapons and war materials ( arms embargo ).

A joint German-Arab commando unit was dispatched into Palestine with chemical weapons to attack the Jews of Tel Aviv in became is known as operation ATLAS.

Iran provided weapons, training, and funding to Hamas and other Palestinian terrorist groups, including the Palestine Islamic Jihad ( PIJ ) and the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command ( PFLP-GC ).

Continued friction with the Soviets over political issues as well as shortages of weapons, food and clothing, led to the eventual exodus of Anders ' men – known as the Anders Army – together with a sizeable contingent of Polish civilians via the Persian Corridor into Iran, Iraq and Palestine.

The USSR voted for the 1947 United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine and in May 1948 it recognized the establishment of the state of Israel there, subsequently supporting it with weapons ( via Czechoslovakia, in defiance of the embargo ) in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war.

Rashed al-Khuza ' i al-Fraihat was the only major figure from Transjordan who provided direct support to al-Qassam's movement, providing direct protection to the rebels and their leadership in the mountains of Ajloun and fortified them with supplies and weapons through the region called " Makadet Kraymeh " near Ajloun as well as direct meetings with the struggling al-Qassam and Hajj Amin al-Husseini from Palestine, al-Khuza ' i also afforded the necessary funds for the Palestinian rebels through intermediaries, who were sending his aid to Palestinian revolution directly, in addition to al-Khuza ' i's multiple visits, these visits to Palestine, which were accompanied by the pro-Jordanian al-Khuza ' i sent to fight in Palestine, under the direct command of the Palestinian Arab rebellion and brought several Palestinian militants wanted by the British Mandate and settled them in Jordan to live among many Jordanian tribes.

It argued that the Society's activities and objectives were mainly peaceful, and that its weapons and military training were intended only for the legitimate defence of Arabs and Muslims against the British occupation of Egypt and against Zionism in Palestine.

In other international issues, Beria ( along with Mikoyan ) correctly foresaw the victory of Mao Zedong in the Chinese Civil War and greatly helped the communist success by letting the Communist Party of China use Soviet-occupied Manchuria as a staging area and arranging huge weapons shipments to the People's Liberation Army, mainly from the recently-captured equipment of the Japanese Kwantung Army.

Members of the Kosovo Liberation Army turn over their weapons to U. S. Marines

Edward James Olmos narrated for the 1999 film Zapatista, a documentary in support of the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, a revolutionary group that has abstained from using their weapons since 1994.

The Statistical Chart of Field Army Personnel, Weaponry, Ammunition, and Supply ( Currently kept at the People's Liberation Armys Archives ) also provided the weaponry and provisions prepared for the Long March, and the weapons deployed included:

In February 2010, days before the IICD was due to disband, both the Irish National Liberation Army and the Official Irish Republican Army announced that they had decommissioned their weapons.

* Operations interdicting the supply of weapons to the National Liberation Front ( FLN ) and its couriers in Europe ( the « porteurs de valises », activists supporting Algerian independence ) during the Algerian War.

After the Liberation, Thorez led the PCF immediately after the Second World War to a non-revolutionary road to power, instructing the reluctant wartime Communist partisans to surrender their weapons, while the party became a powerful force in the postwar governments since he thought that he would soon win legally.

In Russia, a group calling itself Force Majeure, also known as the Global Liberation Front, is planning on making and using nuclear weapons to attack the United States.

At the end of World War II, the Imperial Japanese Army buried some of their chemical weapons in China, but most were confiscated by Soviet Red Army, the People's Liberation Army and the Kuomintang Army, along with other weapons.

In the war against the military regime of Desi Bouterse, Jungle Commando got a supply of money, weapons from a group of people who live in the Netherlands Suriname as organisasi buruh Motherbond, Paul Soemohardjo, and the Suriname National Liberation League ( Henk Chin a Sen )

In March 2000, the European-Sudanese Public Affairs Council, led by David Hoile, referred to a November 1999 television documentary that alleged that NPA-controlled aeroplanes had supplied the Sudan People's Liberation Army ( SPLA ) with 80 – 100 tonnes of weapons and landmines.

The Supreme Command responded by creating Task Force 80 in February 1980, a special Thahan Phran unit charged with defensive duties, refugee management, and the supply of food and weapons to the anti-Vietnamese resistance factions that Thailand supported, particularly the Khmer Rouge, as well as the Khmer People's National Liberation Front and the Armee Nationale Sihanoukiste or ANS.

* Russian Liberation Army, Russian and Ukrainian nationalists recruited in the prisoner of war camps to help the Germans fight the Red Army, but in the end they turned their German weapons against the Nazis.

After a ceasefire was declared in the Republic of Macedonia between government forces and rebels known as the National Liberation Army, NATO launched a British-led effort ( Operation Essential Harvest ) to collect weapons voluntarily given up by the rebels.

Moved by profound political and moral beliefs, antifascist, he joined the Italian Resistance under the name of " Benigno " and became President of the Committee for National Liberation of Reggio Emilia, even if he always refused to use weapons.

As they travel North to the support the Western African Liberation Front ( WALF ), the company begins to sight unknown WAWs and WAW-vehicle hybrids known as " mobile weapons " being used by terrorist forces.