Talk:Weapons List

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

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