From the Bronze Age to armored vehicles
Weapons catalogue & comparison
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From the Bronze Age to armored vehicles
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53 conflicts · 135 unique items. This is a growing selection, not a complete list of weapons from every war. You can compare items from different conflicts; filtering does not clear your selection.
Unknown does not mean zero. A dash is not a score. Effective weapon range, maximum range and vehicle operating range are separate measurements. There is no universal winner or invented firepower score; variants, loads and test conditions make many figures difficult to compare directly.
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1861 – 1865 · 9 catalogue items
A typological group, not an unchanged model spanning six centuries.
A British percussion rifle, also imported in large numbers during the American Civil War.
A hand-operated multi-barrel weapon; calibres and models varied.
A hand-cranked Confederate submarine. On 17 February 1864 she sank USS Housatonic with a spar torpedo – the first time a submarine sank a warship – but was then lost with her entire crew.
An Austrian percussion rifle; export variants existed.
An American smoothbore field gun, not the same system as the Gribeauval.
A repeating firearm with a tubular magazine in the stock.
An American rifled percussion rifle.
An armoured Union warship with a revolving gun turret. Her fight with CSS Virginia at Hampton Roads in March 1862 was the first duel between ironclads and ended in a stalemate; at the end of 1862 she sank in a storm.