Difference between revisions of "Talk:Weapons List"

Revision as of 06:34, 12 December 2004

Recommend you break this down into several pages, rather than the broad 'Weapons List'. This could be called 'Small Arms'. Probably adding it to "Category:Hardware" would be good, too. Depending on what it ends up looking like, I might have some suggestions for an improved Table of Contents -- Frisbeeteria 05:47, 9 Oct 2004 (GMT)

That's my plan, actually, to make several categories. It's still really rough, so I don't want to openly link it until it's shaping up a little. -- K-stan

UPDATE- I opened it up last night, in a rough form. This stuff takes a while to compile, so its kinda draining. I think I'm going to add a bladed weapons and DEW category. -- K-stan

Just to let it be known. Direct Energy Weapons are all weapons that directly put their energy into targets. Which means everything from kinetics also fits into the category, such as bladed weapons, guns, etc. Maybe it's best if you make it a 'miscellaneous' category -- Diablo NL

There is some confusion on this, but it seems that most military references refer to DEW as weapons of a non-ballistic nature. While technically any transfer of energy would mean a DEW, the acronym and name seems to be reserved for non-ballistic designs inside of the militaries. Some examples:

http://www.fas.org/spp/starwars/program/dew.htm -- Federation of American Scientists

http://www.fas.org/man/dod-101/army/docs/astmp/c4/P4K.htm -- More FAS

http://www.mikrowellenterror.de/english/mw-weapon.htm -- Dissertation

http://www.nawcwpns.navy.mil/~teclib/dewglossary.html -- US Navy Report

http://afsafety.af.mil/AFSC/RDBMS/Weapons/dteam_directed_energy_weapons_safety.htm -- US Air Force

--K-stan

The article title list of weapons, personally seems more appropriate to me, and furthermore, in doing so there would be a redirect from here, which could be useful in itself, as opposed to the inverse situation which is curently present. consensus? Sincerely, — ℜechze| ♞talk 23:55, 10 Dec 2004 (GMT)

We also need better pages on certain types of explosives. Just the other day, I had to add plastic explosives and C-4. Is anyone gonna post about the other stuff such as Octocol or RDX because I know very little about that stuff.

Crazed Marines 03:22, 12 Dec 2004 (GMT)

I always thought RDX was just what c-4 was made out of :P anyway, added rdx and semtex John 10:34, 12 Dec 2004 (GMT)