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Welcome to the Weaponry task force. If you have any questions about articles or are generally seeking advice, you're encouraged to ask at the main military history talk page, or you can directly approach one of the task force participants below. The coordinators of the Military history WikiProject can be contacted here. Scope This task force covers all topics related to weaponry, including weapons, armor, explosives, ammunition, and armoured fighting vehicles; it can be considered to be a subgroup of the military science and technology task force, whose scope includes every such topic. Any article related to this task force should be marked by adding Weaponry-task-force=yes to the {{WPMILHIST}} project banner at the top of its talk page (see the project banner instructions for more details on the exact syntax). This will automatically place it into Category:Weaponry task force articles.

Participants

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1. A 10 fireplane (talk · contribs) (US Navy ships)
2. Buster40004 (talk · contribs) (Japanese and American Armor and Artillery and Coast Artillery 1920-1970)
3. Cdtuba (talk · contribs)
4. Cirt (talk · contribs) (interested in researching biological warfare)
5. Corvus coronoides (talk · contribs) (Medieval Weapons)
6. Dhatfield (talk · contribs) (AFVs, esp. tank)
7. DPdH (talk · contribs) (Main interests => Artillery, Firearms/Infantry weapons, AFV's & other military vehicles, Aircraft weapons/ordnance, Naval weapons/ordnance & military ships, Rockets & Missiles. Historical periods: WW1, WW2, Cold War, current. Countries/Regions: South America esp. Argentina, GB, USA, Germany, NATO, ex-Warsaw Pact).
8. Gadget850 (talk · contribs) (Pershing missile; Bradley FV; M113 APC)
9. Georgewilliamherbert (talk · contribs) (nuclear weapons, firearms, heavy weapons, technology)
10. GreyPage (talk · contribs) (WWII tech and general weapon tech)
11. Ghost Lourde (talk · contribs) (Chiefly HEMA/medieval warfare oriented interests)
12. Iazyges (talk · contribs) Roman stuff.
13. Ktr101 (talk · contribs)
14. MChew (talk · contribs) (WWII and earlier Japanese weaponry)
15. Mike Searson (talk · contribs) (USMC history, Small Arms, swords, and knives.)
16. MerlinVtwelve (talk · contribs) (General interest in weaponry)
17. Mzajac (talk · contribs) (AFVs, especially Soviet and CIS)
18. Niteshift36 (talk · contribs) (modern arms and tactics)
19. Phichanad (talk · contribs) (Philippine Military)
20. Pudeo (talk · contribs) (Mostly WWII weaponry, from that mostly Finnish..)
21. RobDuch (talk · contribs) (US coast artillery and railroad weapons, some naval guns and missiles)
22. Sp33dyphil (talk · contribs) (AGMs, AIMs, PGMs, cruise missiles, LGBs, GBUs, ICBMs)
23. SirGents (talk · contribs) (Nuclear weaponry, missiles, and vehicular weaponry)
24. Sturmvogel 66 (talk · contribs) (WW I-present artillery, AFVs, aircraft)
25. theattackcorgi (talk · contribs) (everything.)
26. The Bushranger (talk · contribs)
27. Yuriybrisk (talk · contribs) (Russian SAM systems)
28. ZappaOMati (talk · contribs)

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Article statistics

The table to the right shows the current article assessment statistics for this task force. A list of the top 500 most popular articles within our scope, as well as the number of page views each article received over the past month, can be found here. With most of our articles assessed as Stub- or Start-Class, there's a lot of work to be done. However, we also have a number of good, A-Class, and featured articles, which have been assessed as amongst the best Wikipedia has to offer. These article serve as a yardstick for what can be achieved and should be aimed for, and can provide ideas about how to write an article and what sources to consult; they are listed below: Featured articles AMX-30E Alsos Mission Amchitka AMX-30 Arena (countermeasure) Armament of the Iowa-class battleship Armed Forces Special Weapons Project BAE Systems Battleship Benty Grange helmet British contribution to the Manhattan Project British hydrogen bomb programme Cannon Dreadnought Ernest Emerson Richard Feynman Gevninge helmet fragment Guilden Morden boar Horncastle boar's head Ironclad warship Leopard 2E Light Tank Mk VII Tetrarch Lince (tank) M249 light machine gun Manhattan Project Fortress of Mimoyecques Nike-X Operation Crossroads Operation Hurricane Panzer I William Sterling Parsons Pioneer Helmet Pre-dreadnought battleship Project Y Isidor Isaac Rabi Rheinmetall Rh-120 Smyth Report Tanks in the Spanish Army Tanque Argentino Mediano 1968 Thule Air Base B-52 crash Trinity (nuclear test) Tube Alloys Verdeja Webley Revolver Featured lists Timeline of the Manhattan Project A-Class articles 37 mm Gun M3 Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki Robert Bacher Battle of the Kalka River Norris Bradbury Dayton Project Early thermal weapons Enfield revolver Heuschrecke 10 Horses in warfare M22 Locust M3 Gun Motor Carriage Minefields in Croatia Operation Grapple Operation Sandstone Ordnance QF 25-pounder Short Panzer IV Project Emily Republic F-84 Thunderjet STRAT-X Sd.Kfz. 10 Sukhoi Su-25 Sukhoi Su-37 T-26 Trident (UK nuclear programme) United States battleship retirement debate Zveno project Good articles 28 cm SK L/40 "Bruno" 30.5 cm SK L/50 gun 41 cm/45 3rd Year Type naval gun 68-pounder gun 152 mm howitzer M1943 (D-1) ASM-A-1 Tarzon AUM-N-2 Petrel Armement Air-Sol Modulaire Agent Orange Harold Agnew AIL Storm Al-Khalid tank Anti-nuclear movement in Australia Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki BGM-75 AICBM BL 18-inch Mk I naval gun Robert Bacher Battle of the Kalka River Battlecruiser Big Bertha (howitzer) Bold Orion Norris Bradbury British nuclear tests at Maralinga Project Camel Samuel Colt Composite bow CQC-6 Dassault Rafale Dayton Project Demon core Destruction of Syria's chemical weapons Disney bomb Dugway sheep incident Early thermal weapons English cannon FN 5.7×28mm FN P90 Fat Man Flame fougasse FN Five-seven Frisch–Peierls memorandum General Dynamics F-16 Fighting Falcon Gunpowder artillery in the Middle Ages Heuschrecke 10 High Virgo History of cannon Horses in warfare Interstate TDR Iowa-class battleship Katyusha rocket launcher Khanjar LT vz. 34 Landkreuzer P. 1000 Ratte Light Tank Mk VIII Little Boy Lockheed Senior Prom M22 Locust Loitering munition Lokrume helmet fragment M2 light tank M3 Gun Motor Carriage M32 Tank Recovery Vehicle Macuahuitl Main Navy and Munitions Buildings Marmon-Herrington CTLS Mauser Model 1893 Minefields in Croatia MP 40 RTV-A-2 Hiroc Nike Zeus 2009 North Korean nuclear test Northover Projector Nuclear weapons and the United Kingdom Operation Grapple Operation Sandstone Operation Totem PIAT Panzer 35(t) Operation Peppermint Project Alberta Project Emily Pumpkin bomb RaLa Experiment Reflector sight Republic F-105 Thunderchief Rumsfeld Commission STRAT-X Salt Wells Pilot Plant Matthew Sands Sd.Kfz. 10 Seax of Beagnoth Smith Gun Sticky bomb Sukhoi Su-33 Sukhoi Su-37 Sukhoi Su-57 Thin Man (nuclear bomb) Charles Allen Thomas Tiger II Tjele helmet fragment Trident (UK nuclear programme) Type 26 revolver Type 94 Nambu pistol Type 97 automatic cannon Vz. 24 Winchester Model 1897 Witcham Gravel helmet World War II

Weaponry task force assessment statistics Articles Lists FA 44 FL 1 A 27 AL 1 GA 89     B 556 BL 22 C 1,485 CL 33 Start 3,692 List 237 Stub 2,143     Total 8,036 Total 294 Other pages Book 5 Category 823 Disambig 28 Draft 3 File 17 Portal 2 Project 2 Redirect 346 SIA 4 Template 212 User 3 Total 1,445 Unassessed 5 Statistics ω 40,515 Ω 4.864 category

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Articles for deletion

• 14 Aug 2019 – Large-calibre artillery (talk · edit · hist) AfDed by Smerus (t · c) was withdrawn by Sandstein (t · c) on 15 Aug 2019; see discussion (3 participants)

Proposed deletions

• 09 Aug 2019 – Supergun (talk · edit · hist) PRODed by Smerus (t · c) was deproded by Aspects (t · c) on 13 Aug 2019

Redirects for discussion

• 20 Jul 2019 – A bullet (talk · edit · hist) →Bullet was RfDed by The Man in Question (t · c); see discussion

Files for discussion

• 10 Sep 2018 – File:Nuclear power is not healthy poster.jpg (talk · edit · hist) (on Anti-nuclear movement in the United States) was FfDed by LaundryPizza03 (t · c); see discussion

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• 08 Jul 2019 – Véhicule Blindé Léger (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by Le Petit Chat (t · c); start discussion
• 30 Mar 2019 – M3 half-track (talk · edit · hist) was GA nominated by WelpThatWorked (t · c); see discussion

Requested moves

• 12 Aug 2019 – Spice (bomb) (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to SPICE (bomb) by Steel1943 (t · c); see discussion
• 12 Aug 2019 – Motor Torpedo Boat PT-59 (talk · edit · hist) is requested to be moved to Torpedo boat PT-59 by Dicklyon (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Aug 2019 – AASM (talk · edit · hist) move request to Armement Air-Sol Modulaire by Steel1943 (t · c) was closed; see discussion

Articles to be merged

• 01 Jul 2019 – Repeating crossbow (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Rapid fire crossbow by Andy Dingley (t · c); see discussion
• 10 Apr 2019 – Killer Junior (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Air burst by MTWEmperor (t · c); see discussion
• 24 Feb 2019 – Taepodong-2 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Unha by 68.4.252.105 (t · c); see discussion
• 21 Feb 2019 – WW2 infantry weapons by faction (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to List of common World War II infantry weapons by Jebcubed (t · c); see discussion
• 02 Feb 2019 – Dhanush (missile) (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Prithvi (missile) by Gazoth (t · c); see discussion
• 03 Jan 2019 – Chemical warfare (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Chemical weapon by Bender235 (t · c); see discussion
• 11 Oct 2018 – Méhariste (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Camel cavalry by PPEMES (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Aug 2018 – Chemical weapon (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Chemical weapon proliferation by Beland (t · c); see discussion
• 05 Jul 2018 – Solothurn S-18/1100 (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for merging to Solothurn S-18/1000 by Le Petit Chat (t · c); see discussion

Articles to be split

• 02 Apr 2019 – Solomon's Stables (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by PPEMES (t · c); see discussion
• 07 Feb 2019 – Soviet helmets during World War II (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Ominae (t · c); see discussion
• 13 Aug 2018 – Chemical warfare (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by Beland (t · c); see discussion
• 04 Mar 2017 – Szabla (talk · edit · hist) is proposed for splitting by I dream of horses (t · c); see discussion

Resources

• US Army's Army Heritage Collection Online Check out the digital resources online. There are many field manuals and technical manuals for American equipment, a British-American "dictionary" dating from WWII, a similar German-American dictionary, and other resources broken down (generally) by era. Most resources are in PDF format and some are rather large.

• 90th Infantry Division Preservation Group Another source for US Army manuals.

• J. Howard Mathews, Firearms identification: The laboratory examination of small arms, rifling characteristics in handguns, and notes on the automatic pistols., Vol.I., Charles C Thomas Publisher, Springfield Ill., 1973 [1]