Lists of weapons explained

This is an index of lists of weapons.

By time period

• List of medieval weapons
• List of premodern combat weapons
• List of American Civil War weapons
• List of World War I weapons
• List of World War II weapons
  • List of ship classes of World War II
• List of Korean War weapons
• List of Vietnam War weapons
• List of 20th-century weapons

By type

• List of anti-aircraft weapons
• List of aircraft weapons
  • List of fighter aircraft
• List of artillery
• List of firearms
  • List of assault rifles
  • List of battle rifles
  • List of blow forward firearms
  • List of bolt-action rifles
  • List of bullpup firearms
  • List of carbines
  • List of delayed blowback firearms
  • List of grenade launchers
  • List of machine guns
  • List of multiple-barrel firearms
  • List of pistols
  • List of recoilless rifles
  • List of revolvers
  • List of rifles
  • List of rocket launchers
  • List of semi-automatic pistols
  • List of semi-automatic rifles
  • List of shotguns
  • List of sniper rifles
  • List of submachine guns
• List of flamethrowers
• List of martial arts weapons
• List of man-portable anti-tank systems
• List of military vehicles
• List of missiles
• List of practice weapons
• List of rockets
• Lists of swords
• List of types of spears
• List of torpedoes
• Naval ship
  • List of auxiliary ship classes in service
  • List of naval ship classes in service
  • List of submarine classes in service

By country

• List of artillery by country
• List of service rifles of national armies

Soviet Union

• List of equipment of the Soviet Ground Forces
  • List of armored fighting vehicles of the Soviet Union
• List of military aircraft of the Soviet Union and the CIS
• List of ships of the Soviet Navy

United States

• List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces
• List of weapons of the U.S. Marine Corps

Weapons-related

• List of aircraft
• List of armoured fighting vehicles
• List of chemical warfare agents
• List of handgun cartridges
• List of rifle cartridges

Fictional

• List of magical weapons
• List of mythological weapons