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Aircraft mounted guns

ADEN cannon
ADEN cannon

The Royal Small Arms Factory ADEN is a 30 mm cannon used on many military aircraft, particularly those of the United Kingdom Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm....
(UK)
Becker
20 mm Becker

The 20 mm Stahlwerke Becker was a German automatic cannon developed for aircraft use during World War I. It was first mass produced in 1916 in aviation and was installed in a variety of aircraft; the only German autocannon to actually see service in the air during the war....
(Germany)
Berezin B-20
Berezin B-20

The Berezin B-20 was a 20 mm caliber autocannon used by Soviet aircraft in World War II....
(USSR)
Berezin BS/UB
Berezin UB

Berezin UB was a 12.7 mm caliber Soviet aircraft machine gun widely used during World War II....
(USSR)
Breda-SAFAT machine gun
Breda-SAFAT machine gun

Breda-SAFAT was a series of machine guns used on Italy aircraft during World War II. The machine gun came in 7.7mm and 12.7mm variants. The 7.7mm variant was similar to the M1919 Browning machine gun and could use some types of .303 British ammunition....
(Italy)
Browning Model 1919 machine gun
Browning Model 1919 machine gun

The Browning M1919 is a .30-06 Springfield medium machine gun family widely used during the 20th century. It was used as a light infantry, coaxial weapon, mounted, aircraft, and anti-aircraft machine gun by the U.S....
(United States)
Colt Mk 12 cannon
Colt Mk 12 cannon

The Colt-Browning Mk 12 was a 20 mm cannon widely used by the United States Navy after World War II....
(United States)
DEFA cannon
DEFA cannon

The GIAT DEFA 550 is a series of widely used France aircraft guns.The initial DEFA 551 was developed in the late 1940s. It was based on the Germany Mauser MG 213C, an experimental revolver cannon developed for the Luftwaffe....
(France)
GAU-7 cannon
GAU-7 cannon

The Ford-Philco GAU-7/A was an abortive program initiated by United States Air Force in the late 1960s to develop a new cannon to replace the M61 Vulcan on the then-upcoming F-15 Eagle....
(United States)
GAU-8 Avenger
GAU-8 Avenger

The General Electric GAU-8/A Avenger is a 30 mm caliber, hydraulically-driven seven-barrel Gatling Gun that is mounted on the United States Air Force's A-10 Thunderbolt II....
(United States)
GAU-12 Equalizer
GAU-12 Equalizer

The General Electric GAU-12/U Equalizer is a five-barrel 25 mm caliber Gatling gun-style rotary cannon. The GAU-12/U is used by the United States, the United Kingdom, and several other NATO nations, which mount the weapon in their fighter jets such as the AV-8B Harrier II, airborne gunships such as the Lockheed AC-130, and land-based fighting...
(United States)
GIAT 30
GIAT 30

The GIAT Industries 30 is a series of 30 mm cannon developed to replace the DEFA cannon weapons on France military aircraft.Introduced in the late 1980s, the GIAT 30 is a revolver cannon with electric ignition and automatic recocking....
(France)
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23L
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23L

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-23 is a twin-barreled 23 mm automatic cannon developed in the Soviet Union, primarily for military aircraft use. It entered service in 1965, replacing the earlier Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 cannon....
(Russia)
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23 , also known by its service designation, 9-A-768, is a powerful, fast-firing six-barreled 23 mm Gatling gun used by some modern Soviet Union/Russian military aircraft....
(Russia)
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-30 is a Russian 30 mm cannon used by Soviet and later Commonwealth of Independent States military aircraft.The GSh-6-30, designed in the early 1970s and entering service in 1975 in aviation, is a six-barreled Gatling gun similar in design to the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-6-23....
(Russia)
Gryazev-Shipunov/Izhmash GSh-30-1
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1 is a 30 mm autocannon designed for use on Soviet Union and later Russian military aircraft, entering service in the early 1980s....
(Russia)
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2
Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2

The Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-2 or GSh-2-30 is a powerful twin-barrel autocannon used on certain Russian military aircraft.It is not related to the Gryazev-Shipunov GSh-30-1, but is heavy-duty, gas-operated weapon, operating on the Gast principle ....
(Russia)
Shipunov 2A42 (Russia)
Hispano 20 mm cannon (Switzerland)
Lewis gun
Lewis Gun

The Lewis Gun is a pre-World War I era light machine gun of American design that was perfected and most widely used by the forces of the British Empire....
(USA/UK)
M2 .50 calibre Browning machine gun (United States)
M39 cannon
M39 cannon

The Pontiac M39 was a 20 mm single-barreled revolver cannon developed for the United States Air Force in the late 1940s. It was used on a number of fighter aircraft from the early 1950s through the 1980s....
(United States)
M61 Vulcan
M61 Vulcan

The M61 Vulcan is a 20 mm hydraulically or pneumatically driven, six-barrel ed, air-cooled, electrically fired Gatling gun with an extremely high rate of fire....
(United States)
M134 Mini Gun (United States)
M197 Gatling gun
M197 Gatling gun

The M197 electric cannon is a three-barreled electric Gatling gun developed primarily for use by United States Army military helicopter gunships....
(United States)
MAC 1934
MAC 1934

In 1934 the Manufacture d'Armes de Ch?tellerault completed the development of the MAC 1934 machine gun to replace the Darne aboard aircraft of the Arm?e de l'Air....
(France)
Mauser BK-27
Mauser BK-27

File:Autocannon MLG27.jpgThe BK 27 is a 27 mm autocannon manufactured by Mauser . It was developed in the late 1960s for the MRCA program that ultimately became the Panavia Tornado....
(Germany)
MG 151 cannon
MG 151 cannon

The MG 151 was a 15 mm autocannon produced by Waffenfabrik Mauser starting in 1940. It was in 1941 developed into the 20 mm MG 151/20 cannon which was widely used on many types of Germany Luftwaffe fighters, fighter bombers, night fighters, ground attack and even bombers as part of or as their main armament during World War I...
(Germany)
MG 15 machine gun (Germany)
MG 17 machine gun
MG 17 machine gun

The MG 17 was a 7.92 mm machine gun produced by Rheinmetall-Borsig for use at fixed mountings in many World War II Luftwaffe aircraft....
(Germany)
MG 131 machine gun
MG 131 machine gun

The MG 131 was a 13mm caliber machine gun developed in 1938 by Rheinmetall and produced from 1940 to 1945. The MG 131 was designed for use at fixed or flexible, single or twin mountings in Luftwaffe aircraft during World War II....
(Germany)
MG FF cannon
MG FF cannon

The MG FF was a drum-fed, 20 mm aircraft autocannon, developed in 1936 by Ikaria Werke Berlin of Germany. It was a derivative of the Swiss Oerlikon FF cannon, itself a development of the German 20 mm Becker, and was designed to be used in fixed or flexible mountings, as both an offensive and a defensive weapon....
(Germany)
MK 108 cannon
MK 108 cannon

The MK 108 was an 30 mm calibre autocannon manufactured in Germany during World War II by Rheinmetall-Borsig for use in aircraft....
(Germany)
Parabellum MG14
Parabellum MG14

The Parabellum MG14 was a 7.92x57 mm Mauser World War I machine gun built by Deutsche Waffen und Munitionsfabriken. It was an adaptation of their Maschinengewehr 08 gun intended for use on aircraft and zeppelins....
(Germany)
Molins gun
Ordnance QF 6 pounder

The Ordnance QF 6-pounder 7 cwt, or just 6 pdr, was a United Kingdom 57 mm gun, their primary anti-tank gun during the middle of World War II, as well as the main armament for a number of armoured fighting vehicles....
(UK)
Nudelman NL-37 (Russia)
Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23
Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23

The Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 is a Soviet cannon widely used in military aircraft of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It was designed by A. E. Nudelman and A.A....
(Russia)
Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30
Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30

The Nudelman-Rikhter NR-30 was a Soviet cannon widely used in military aircraft of the Soviet Union and Warsaw Pact. It was designed by A.E. Nudelman and A.A....
(Russia)
Nudelman-Suranov NS-23
Nudelman-Suranov NS-23

The NS-23 was a 23 mm aircraft autocannon designed by A. E. Nudelman, A. Suranov, G. Zhirnykh, V. Nemenov, S. Lusin, and M. Bundin as a post-World War II replacement for the early Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23 cannon....
(Russia)
Schwarzlose MG M.07/12
Schwarzlose MG M.07/12

The Maschinengewehr Patent Schwarzlose M.07/12 was a medium machine gun, and was a standard issue firearm in the Austro-Hungarian Army throughout World War I, and by the Dutch Army, Greek Army and the Hungarian Army armies during World War II....
(Austria-Hungary)
ShKAS machine gun
ShKAS machine gun

The ShKAS is a 7.62 mm caliber machine gun widely used by Soviet Union aircraft in the 1930s and during World War II. It was designed by Boris Shpitalniy and Irinarkh Komaritsky and entered production in 1934....
(Russia)
ShVAK cannon
ShVAK cannon

The ShVAK was a 20 mm caliber autocannon used by the Soviet Union during World War II. It was designed by Boris Shpitalniy and Semyon Vladimirov and entered production in 1936....
(Russia)
Spandau machine gun
Maschinengewehr 08

The Maschinengewehr 08, or MG08, was the German Army's standard machine gun in World War I and is an almost direct copy of Hiram Stevens Maxim's original 1884 Maxim Gun....
(Germany)
Type 1 machine gun
Type 1 machine gun

The Type 1 machine gun was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Army and Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. It was an adaptation of the German MG 15 machine gun....
(Japan)
Type 2 machine gun
Type 2 machine gun

The Type 2 machine gun was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Navy during World War II. It was an adaptation of the German MG 131 machine gun....
(Japan)
Type 92 machine gun
Type 92 machine gun

The Type 92 machine gun was developed for aerial use for the Imperial Japanese Navy before the World War II. It was the standard hand-held machine gun in multi-place IJN aircraft during the most part of the Pacific War....
(Japan)
Type 99 cannon
Type 99 cannon

The Type 99 cannon was adaptated from the Oerlikon FF by the Imperial Japanese Navy and served as their standard aircraft autocannon during World War II....
(Japan)
Vickers machine gun
Vickers machine gun

The Vickers machine gun or Vickers gun is a name primarily used to refer to the Water cooling .303 British machine gun produced by Vickers Limited, originally for the British Army....
(UK)
Vickers K aka VGO
Vickers K machine gun

The Vickers K gun, known as the Vickers Gas Operated in United Kingdom service, was a rapid-firing machine gun developed and manufactured for use in aircraft by Vickers-Armstrongs....
(UK)
Vickers S
Vickers S

The Vickers Class "S" was a 40 mm gun used to arm British aircraft for attacking ground targets in the Second World War....
(UK)
Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23
Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23

Volkov-Yartsev VYa-23 is a 23 mm autocannon used on Soviet aircraft during World War II....
(USSR)

Air-dropped bombs

AASM
AASM

The Armement Air-Sol Modulaire is a France Precision-guided munition which entered operational service in 2006....
(France)
AN-22 bomb
AN-22 bomb

The AN-22 was France's second air-dropped nuclear weapon, developed as a replacement for the earlier AN-11 bomb, entering service in 1967. It had a similar 60 to 70 kilotons yield Nuclear fission warhead to the earlier AN-11, but with enhanced safety features and a parachute retarder to enable it to be dropped at low level....
(France)
AN-52 bomb
AN-52 bomb

The AN-52 was a France tactical nuclear weapon carried by fighter bomber aircraft.The weapon was first tested on 28 August 1972, and entered service in October of that year....
(French tactical nuclear bomb)
B28 nuclear bomb
B28 nuclear bomb

The B28 was a thermonuclear bomb carried by United States tactical fighter bombers and bomber aircraft. From 1962 to 1972 under the NATO nuclear weapons sharing program, American B28s also equipped six Europe-based Canadian Canadair CF-104 squadrons known as the RCAF Nuclear Strike Force....
See Mark 28 nuclear bomb
B28 nuclear bomb

The B28 was a thermonuclear bomb carried by United States tactical fighter bombers and bomber aircraft. From 1962 to 1972 under the NATO nuclear weapons sharing program, American B28s also equipped six Europe-based Canadian Canadair CF-104 squadrons known as the RCAF Nuclear Strike Force....
B39 nuclear bomb
B41 nuclear bomb
B41 nuclear bomb

The B41 was a thermonuclear weapon deployed by the United States Strategic Air Command in the early 1960s. It was the most powerful nuclear warhead ever developed by the United States with a yield of 25 megatons....
B46 nuclear bomb
B46 nuclear bomb

The B46 nuclear bomb was a tested but never deployed American high-yield thermonuclear bomb which was designed and tested in the late 1950s. Though originally intended to be a production design, the B46 ended up being only an intermediate prototype which was test fired several times....
B43 nuclear bomb
B43 nuclear bomb

The B43 was a United States air-dropped nuclear weapon used by a wide variety of fighter bomber and bomber aircraft.The B43 was developed from 1956 by Los Alamos National Laboratory, entering production in 1959....
B53 nuclear bomb
B53 nuclear bomb

The B53 with a nuclear weapon yield of 9 Mt is one of the most powerful nuclear weapons built by the United States, and one of the last very high-yield thermonuclear weapon in U.S....
B57 nuclear bomb
B57 nuclear bomb

The B57 nuclear bomb was a tactical nuclear weapon developed by the United States during the Cold War.Entering production in 1963 as the Mk 57, the bomb was designed to be dropped from high-speed tactical aircraft....
B61 nuclear bomb
B61 nuclear bomb

The B61 nuclear bomb is the primary thermonuclear weapon in the United States Enduring Stockpile following the end of the Cold War....
B90 nuclear bomb
B90 nuclear bomb

The B90 was an American thermonuclear bomb designed in the mid to late 1980s and cancelled prior to introduction into military service.The B90 design was intended for use as a naval aircraft weapon, for use as a nuclear depth bomb and as a land attack strike bomb....
See Mark 90 Betty nuclear depth bomb
Mark 90 Betty nuclear bomb

The Mark 90 Betty was a nuclear weapon depth charge developed by the United States in 1952. With a length of 10 ft 2 in, a diameter of 2 ft 7.5 in, and a weight of 1,243 lb, it utilized a Mark 7 nuclear bomb nuclear warhead, with a yield of 5-10 kilotons....
Daisy cutter
BLU-82

The BLU-82B/C-130 weapon system, known under programme "Commando Vault" and nicknamed "daisy cutter " in Vietnam War and in War in Afghanistan , is a 15,000 pound conventional bomb, delivered from an MC-130 transport aircraft....
(BLU-82B)
BLU-107 Durandal
BLU-107 Durandal

Named for Durendal, the Durandal is a bomb developed by the France company Matra , designed to destroy airport and airfield runways.Designed to be dropped from low altitudes, the bomb's fall is slowed by a parachute....
BLU-108
BLU-108

THe BLU-108 is an air-delivered submunition, containing four further smart weapon "Skeet" submunitions. The system is manufactured by Textron....
BLU-109
BLU-114/B "Soft-Bomb"
BLU-114/B "Soft-Bomb"

The BLU-114/B is a special-purpose munition for attacking electrical power infrastructure. Although very little is known about this highly classified weapon, reportedly it functions by dispensing a number of submunitions which in turn disperse large numbers of chemically treated graphite filaments which short-circuit electrical power distribu...
BLU-116
BLU-116

The BLU-116 is a United States United States Air Force Gravity bomb, designed as an enhanced Bunker buster penetration weapon, designed to penetrate deep into rock or concrete and destroy hard targets....
Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)
Blue Danube (nuclear weapon)

Blue Danube was the first operational British nuclear weapon. It also went by a variety of other names, including Smallboy, the Mk.1 Atom Bomb, Special Bomb and OR.1001, a reference to the Operational Requirement it was built to fill....
(UK)
Fritz X
Fritz X

Fritz X was the most common name for a Nazi Germany air-launched anti-ship missile, used during World War II. Fritz X was a nickname used both by Allied and Luftwaffe personnel....
GBU-10 Paveway 2000lbs
GBU-12 Paveway 500lbs
GBU-15
GBU-15

Guided Bomb Unit 15 is an unpowered, glide weapon used to destroy high-value enemy targets. It was designed for use with F-15E Strike Eagle, General Dynamics F-111 and F-4 Phantom II aircraft, but the United States Air Force is currently only deploying it from the F-15E....
EGBU-15
GBU-24 Paveway III
GBU-24 Paveway III

Raytheon GBU-24 Family The GBU-24 is a family of laser-guided bombs, a sub-group of the larger Raytheon Paveway III family of weapons. The Paveway guidance package consists of a seeker package attached to the nose of the weapon, and a wing kit attached to the rear to provide stability and greater range....
GBU-28
GBU-28

The Guided Bomb Unit 28 is a 5,000 pound / 2,268 kg laser-guided "bunker buster" bomb nicknamed "deep throat" produced originally by the Texas Instruments division Defense Systems and Electronics Group ....
HOPE/HOSBO
HOPE/HOSBO

HOPE and HOSBO are a new family of smart bombs, currently under development by Diehl BGT Defence for the Germany Luftwaffe. Diehl BGT is expected to reach production readiness in 2010, although neither the weapon nor the integration has been ordered so far....
Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM)
Joint Direct Attack Munition

The Joint Direct Attack Munition is a guidance kit that converts existing unguided gravity bombs, or "dumb bombs", into all-weather precision guided munition....
Joint Standoff Weapon (JSOW)
Mark 2 nuclear bomb
Mark 4 nuclear bomb
Mark 4 nuclear bomb

The Mark 4 nuclear bomb was an American nuclear bomb design produced starting in 1949 and in use until 1953.The Mark 4 was based on the earlier Fat Man design, used in the Trinity test and bombing of Nagasaki, Nagasaki....
Mark 5 nuclear bomb
Mark 5 nuclear bomb

The Mark 5 nuclear bomb and W5 nuclear warhead were a common core nuclear weapon design, designed in the early 1950s and which saw service from 1952 to 1963....
Mark 6 nuclear bomb
Mark 6 nuclear bomb

The Mark 6 nuclear bomb was an American nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 4 nuclear bomb and its predecessor, the Fat Man design.The Mark 6 was produced from 1951-1955 and saw service until 1962....
Mark 7 nuclear bomb
Mark 7 nuclear bomb

Mark 7 "Thor" was the first tactical nuclear bomb adopted by US armed forces. It was also the first weapon to be delivered using the Toss bombing with the help of the low-altitude bombing system ....
Mark 8 nuclear bomb
Mark 8 nuclear bomb

The Mark 8 nuclear bomb was a nuclear bomb designed late 1940s and early 1950s, which was in service from 1952 to 1957....
Mark 10 nuclear bomb
Mark 10 nuclear bomb

The Mark 10 nuclear bomb was a proposed American nuclear bomb based on the earlier Mark 8 nuclear bomb design. The Mark 10, like the Mark 8, is a Gun-type nuclear weapon, which rapidly assembles several critical masses of fissile nuclear material by firing a fissile projectile or "bullet" into a hollow opening in a larger fissile "target", u...
Mark 11 nuclear bomb
Mark 11 nuclear bomb

The Mark 11 nuclear bomb was an American nuclear bomb developed from the earlier Mark 8 nuclear bomb in the mid 1950s. Like the Mark 8, the Mark 11 was an earth-penetrating weapon, also known as a Nuclear bunker buster bomb....
Mark 12 nuclear bomb
Mark 12 nuclear bomb

The Mark-12 nuclear bomb was a US designed and manufactured lightweight nuclear bomb which was built starting in 1954 and saw service from then until 1962....
Mark 15 nuclear bomb
Mark 15 nuclear bomb

The Mark 15 nuclear bomb was a 1950s American thermonuclear bomb, the first relatively lightweight thermonuclear bomb created by the United States....
Mark 15/39 nuclear bomb
Mark 18 nuclear bomb
Mark 18 nuclear bomb

The Mark 18 nuclear bomb, also known as the SOB or Super Oralloy Bomb, was an American nuclear bomb design which was the highest yield fission bomb produced by the US....
Mark 24 nuclear bomb
Mark 24 nuclear bomb

The Mark 24 nuclear bomb was an American thermonuclear bomb design, based on the third American thermonuclear bomb test, Castle Yankee. The Mark 24 bomb was tied as the largest weight and size nuclear bomb ever deployed by the United states, with the same size and weight as the Mark 17 nuclear bomb which used a very similar design concept bu...
Mark 28 nuclear bomb
B28 nuclear bomb

The B28 was a thermonuclear bomb carried by United States tactical fighter bombers and bomber aircraft. From 1962 to 1972 under the NATO nuclear weapons sharing program, American B28s also equipped six Europe-based Canadian Canadair CF-104 squadrons known as the RCAF Nuclear Strike Force....
Mark 77 bomb
Mark 77 bomb

The Mark 77 bomb is a United States 750-lb air-dropped incendiary bomb carrying of a fuel gel mix which is the direct successor to napalm....
Napalm bomb
Mark 81 bomb
Mark 81 bomb

The Mark 81 250 lb general purpose bomb was the smallest of the General-purpose bomb#Modern American GP bombs: the Mark 80 series of low-drag general-purpose bombs....
Mark 82 bomb
Mark 82 bomb

The Mark 82 is an unguided, low-drag general-purpose bomb , part of the United States General-purpose bomb#Modern American GP bombs: the Mark 80 series....
Mark 83 bomb
Mark 83 bomb

The Mark 83 is part of the General-purpose bomb#Modern American GP bombs: the Mark 80 series of low-drag general-purpose bombs in United States service....
Mark 84 bomb
Mark 84 bomb

The Mark 84 is an United States general-purpose bomb, the largest of the Mark 80 series of weapons. Entering service during the Vietnam War, it was nicknamed "Hammer" for its considerable power....
Mark 90 Betty nuclear depth bomb
Mark 90 Betty nuclear bomb

The Mark 90 Betty was a nuclear weapon depth charge developed by the United States in 1952. With a length of 10 ft 2 in, a diameter of 2 ft 7.5 in, and a weight of 1,243 lb, it utilized a Mark 7 nuclear bomb nuclear warhead, with a yield of 5-10 kilotons....
Mark 101 NDB (nuclear depth bomb)
Mk-101 Lulu NDB (Nuclear Depth Bomb)

The Mark 101 Lulu was an air-dropped nuclear depth bomb developed by the United States in the 1950s. It utilized a W34 nuclear warhead, with a yield of about 11 kilotons....
Mark 105 Hotpoint bomb U.S. Navy tactical laydown bomb.
Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb
Matra Durandal
Flechette (WWI)
Blockbuster bomb
Blockbuster bomb

Blockbuster or cookie was the name given to several of the largest conventional bombs used in World War II by the Royal Air Force . The term Blockbuster was originally a name coined by the press and referred to a bomb which had enough explosive power to destroy an entire city block....
(WWII British, also known as "cookies")
Bouncing bomb
Bouncing bomb

A bouncing bomb is a bomb designed specifically to bounce to a target such as across water to avoid torpedo nets. Unlike skip bombing, which uses conventional bombs as during the March 1943 Battle of the Bismarck Sea, the British, Germans, and Soviets developed World War II bombs specifically for bouncing to targets and then exploding....
(WWII British)
SC250 bomb
SC250 bomb

The SC250 was an air-dropped bomb built by Germany during World War II and used intensively during that period. It could be carried by almost all German bomber aircraft, and was used to notable effect by the Junkers Ju-87 Stuka ....
(WWII Germany)
Tallboy bomb
Tallboy bomb

The Tallboy was an earth quake bomb developed by Barnes Wallis and brought into operation by the British in 1944. It weighed five long tons and, carried by the Avro Lancaster bomber, was effective against hardened structures against which earlier, smaller bombs had proved ineffective....
(WWII British, "earthquake bomb")
Grand Slam bomb
Grand Slam bomb

The Grand Slam was a 22,000 Pound earth quake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against strategic targets during the World War II.It was a scaled up version of the Tallboy bomb and closer to the original size that the bomb inventor Barnes Wallis had envisaged when he first developed his earthquake bomb idea....
(WWII British, "earthquake" bomb)
T-12 Cloud Maker (44,000 lb U.S. development of the Grand Slam bomb
Grand Slam bomb

The Grand Slam was a 22,000 Pound earth quake bomb used by RAF Bomber Command against strategic targets during the World War II.It was a scaled up version of the Tallboy bomb and closer to the original size that the bomb inventor Barnes Wallis had envisaged when he first developed his earthquake bomb idea....
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Butterfly bomb
Butterfly Bomb

A Butterfly Bomb, or was a nazi germany 2 kilogram anti-personnel submunition used by the Luftwaffe#World_War_II during the Second World War....
Blue Rosette (UK strategic nuclear bomb for a supersonic bomber)
Red Beard (nuclear weapon)
Red Beard (nuclear weapon)

Red Beard was the first United Kingdom tactical nuclear weapon. It was carried by the English Electric Canberra and the V bombers of the Royal Air Force, and by the Blackburn Buccaneers, Sea Vixens and Supermarine Scimitars of the Royal Navy's Fleet Air Arm....
(UK tactical nuclear bomb)
Violet Club
Violet Club

Violet Club was a nuclear weapon deployed by the United Kingdom during the cold war. It was Britain's first operational "high Nuclear weapon yield" weapon, and was intended to provide an emergency capability until a thermonuclear weapon could be developed from the 1956-1958 Operation Grapple thermonuclear tests conducted on Christmas Island....
(UK emergency capability strategic nuclear bomb)
Interim Megaton Weapon
Violet Club

Violet Club was a nuclear weapon deployed by the United Kingdom during the cold war. It was Britain's first operational "high Nuclear weapon yield" weapon, and was intended to provide an emergency capability until a thermonuclear weapon could be developed from the 1956-1958 Operation Grapple thermonuclear tests conducted on Christmas Island....
(UK emergency capability strategic nuclear bomb.)
WE.177
WE.177

WE.177 was the last air-launched Nuclear weapon of the United Kingdom British Armed Forces. There were three versions; WE.177A was a boosted fission weapon, while WE.177B and WE.177C were thermonuclear weapons....
A (UK dual-purpose tactical nuclear bomb and nuclear depth bomb)
WE.177
WE.177

WE.177 was the last air-launched Nuclear weapon of the United Kingdom British Armed Forces. There were three versions; WE.177A was a boosted fission weapon, while WE.177B and WE.177C were thermonuclear weapons....
B (UK strategic nuclear bomb)
WE.177
WE.177

WE.177 was the last air-launched Nuclear weapon of the United Kingdom British Armed Forces. There were three versions; WE.177A was a boosted fission weapon, while WE.177B and WE.177C were thermonuclear weapons....
C (UK tactical nuclear bomb)
Yellow Sun Mk.1
Yellow Sun

Yellow Sun was the first United Kingdom operational high-yield strategic nuclear weapon. The name actually refers only to the outer casing, the warhead was known as "Green Grass in Yellow Sun Mk.1" and "Red Snow in Yellow Sun Mk.2"....
(UK strategic nuclear bomb)
Yellow Sun Mk.2
Yellow Sun

Yellow Sun was the first United Kingdom operational high-yield strategic nuclear weapon. The name actually refers only to the outer casing, the warhead was known as "Green Grass in Yellow Sun Mk.1" and "Red Snow in Yellow Sun Mk.2"....
(UK strategic nuclear bomb)

Air-launched missiles

AGM-28 Hound Dog
AGM-28 Hound Dog

The North American Aviation Corporation AGM-28 Hound Dog was a supersonic, Jet engine powered, Air launch cruise missile. The Hound Dog was initially given the designation B-77, later re-designated GAM-77, and finally being designated AGM-28....
AGM-65 Maverick
AGM-65 Maverick

The AGM-65 Maverick is an air-to-ground missile designed for close air support. It is effective against a wide range of Military tactic targets, including armor, air defenses, ships, ground transportation, and fuel storage facilities....
AGM-69 SRAM
AGM-69 SRAM

The Boeing AGM-69 SRAM was a nuclear weapon air-to-surface missile designed to replace the older AGM-28 Hound Dog stand-off missile.The requirement for the weapon was issued by the Strategic Air Command of the USAF in 1964, and the resultant AGM-69A SRAM entered service in 1972....
AGM-84 Harpoon
AGM-86 ALCM
AGM-86 ALCM

The Boeing AGM-86 ALCM is an United States subsonic air launch cruise missile built by Boeing Company and operated by the United States Air Force....
AGM-88 HARM
AGM-88 HARM

The AGM-88 High-speed Anti-radiation missile is a tactical, air-to-surface missile designed to home in on electronic transmissions coming from surface-to-air radar systems....
AGM-114 Hellfire
AGM-114 Hellfire

The AGM-114 Hellfire is a multi-platform, multi-target United States modular missile system. The name comes from the fact that it was originally intended to be a helicopter-launched fire-and-forget weapon ....
AGM-122 Sidearm
AGM-122 Sidearm

The AGM-122 Sidearm was an United States Air-to-surface missile anti-radiation missile....
AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missile
AGM-130
AGM-130

The AGM-130 is a missile developed by the United States of America....
AGM-142 Raptor
AGM-154 JSOW
AGM-158 JSSM
AIM-4 Falcon
AIM-4 Falcon

The Hughes Aircraft AIM-4 Falcon was the first operational guided air-to-air missile of the United States Air Force....
AIM-7 Sparrow
AIM-7 Sparrow

The AIM-7 Sparrow is a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile operated by the United States Air Force, United States Navy, and United States Marine Corps as well as various allied air forces and navies....
AIM-9 Sidewinder
AIM-9 Sidewinder

The AIM-9 Sidewinder is a Infrared homing, short-range, air-to-air missile carried by fighter aircraft and recently, certain Attack helicopter. It is named after the Crotalus cerastes, which detects its prey via body heat and also because of the peculiar snake-like path of flight the early versions had when launched....
AIM-47 Falcon
AIM-47 Falcon

The Hughes Aircraft AIM-47 Falcon, originally GAR-9, was a very long-range high-performance air-to-air missile that shared the basic design of the earlier AIM-4 Falcon....
AIM-54 Phoenix
AIM-54 Phoenix

The AIM-54 Phoenix is a radar-guided, long-range air-to-air missile missile, carried in clusters of up to six missiles ? formerly on the U.S. Navy's and currently on the Islamic Republic of Iran Air Force's F-14 Tomcat interceptors/multi-role fighters: which is the only aircraft capable of carrying it....
AIM-120 AMRAAM
AIM-120 AMRAAM

The AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile, or AMRAAM , is a modern Beyond Visual Range missile air-to-air missile missile capable of all weather day and night performance....
AIM-132 ASRAAM
AIM-132 ASRAAM

The AIM-132 Advanced Short Range Air-to-Air Missile is a United Kingdom infrared homing air-to-air missile. It is currently in service in the Royal Air Force and Royal Australian Air Force, replacing the AIM-9 Sidewinder in those services....
AIR-2 Genie
AIR-2 Genie

The Douglas Genie was an unguided air-to-air rocket with a 1.5kt W25 nuclear warhead. It was deployed by the United States Air Force and the Canadian Forces Air Command during the Cold War....
Air-Sol Moyenne Portée
Air-Sol Moyenne Portée

The Air-Sol Moyenne Port?e is a France air-launched nuclear weapon missile. Part of the Force de frappe, in French nuclear doctrine it is the last-resort "warning shot" prior to a full-scale employment of strategic nuclear weapons....
(France)
ALARM (Air Launched Anti-Radar Missile)
Alarm

An alarm gives an audible or visual warning about a problem or condition.Alarms include:* burglar alarms, designed to warn of burglaries; this is often a silent alarm: the police or guards are warned without indication to the burglar, which increases the chances of catching him or her....
(UK)
Astra BVRAAM
Astra missile

Astra is an active radar homing Air-to-air missile or a so called Beyond Visual Range missile developed by Defence Research and Development Organisation, India....
(India)
BGM-71 TOW
BGM-71 TOW

The BGM-71 TOW is an anti-tank guided missile. "TOW" stands for "Tube-launched Optically-tracked Wire-to-command-Link" guided Missile Set. The TOW was first produced in 1970 and is the most widely used anti-tank guided missile in the world....
Blue Steel missile
Blue Steel missile

Blue Steel was a United Kingdom air-launched, rocket-propelled nuclear weapon stand-off missile, built to arm the V bomber force. It was the primary British nuclear deterrent weapon until the Royal Navy started operating Polaris missile armed nuclear submarines....
Fairey Fireflash
Fairey Fireflash

The Fairey Fireflash was the first United Kingdom air-to-air missile. Generally unsuccessful, it served only in small numbers.Development...
Fairey Firestreak
Fairey Firestreak

The de Havilland Propellers Firestreak is a United Kingdom first-generation, passive infrared homing air-to-air missile. It was developed by de Havilland in the early 1950s and was the first such weapon to enter active service with the Royal Air Force and Fleet Air Arm, equipping the English Electric Lightning, de Havilland Sea Vixen and Glos...
FIM-92 Stinger
FIM-92 Stinger

The FIM-92 Stinger is a personal portable infrared homing surface-to-air missile developed in the United States and entered into service in 1981....
(ATAS version)
Hawker Siddeley Red Top
Hawker Siddeley Red Top

The Hawker Siddeley Red Top was the third indigenous United Kingdom air-to-air missile to enter service, following the de Havilland Firestreak and limited-service Fairey Fireflash....
IRIS-T
IRIS-T

IRIS-T is a Germany-led program to develop a short-range air-to-air missile to replace the AIM-9 Sidewinder. Any aircraft capable of carrying and firing Sidewinder is capable of launching IRIS-T....
(Germany)
MBDA Exocet (France)
MBDA Meteor
MBDA Meteor

Meteor is an Active radar homing Beyond Visual Range missile air-to-air missile missile being developed by MBDA to equip the Eurofighter Typhoons of the United Kingdom Royal Air Force , Germany's Luftwaffe, Spain's Spanish Air Force and Italy's Aeronautica Militare, the F-35 of the British Royal Navy, the Dassault Aviation Rafales of France'...
(Europe)
MBDA MICA
MBDA MICA

The MBDA MICA is an Anti-aircraft warfare multi-target, all weather, fire-and-forget short and medium-range missile system. It is intended for use both by air platforms as individual missiles as well as ground units and ships, which can be equipped with the rapid fire MICA Vertical Launch System....
(Europe)
MBDA Magic II (France)
Kongsberg Penguin (AGM-119)
Penguin missile

The Rb 12 Penguin anti-ship missile , made by Kongsberg Defence & Aerospace of Norway from the early 1970s and continually upgraded since, is a infrared homing based short-to-medium range naval cruise missile....
(Norway)
R550 Magic
R550 Magic

The R550 Magic is a short-range missile designed in 1968 by Military of France company Matra to compete with the American AIM-9 Sidewinder. On 11 January 1972, a Gloster Meteor of the centre for in-flight trials fired the R550 Magic and shot down a Nord CT20 target drone ....
(France)
R-73 AA-11 Archer (Russia)
Raduga KS-1 Komet
Raduga KS-1 Komet

The Raduga KS-1 Komet , also referred to as AS-1 and KS-1 was a short range air-to-surface missile developed by the Soviet Union, and carried exclusively on the Tupolev Tu-16....
(Russia)
Rafael Python 5 (Israel)
Red Dean
Red Dean

The Red Dean was an air-to-air missile developed by the United Kingdom in the 1950s but cancelled before development was complete. It was a large Missile guidance-guided missile using doppler-pulse technology for use against enemy bombers....
Red Hebe
Red Top
Red top

Red Top, Red-top or Redtop can refer to*Agrostis gigantea - known as "Black Bent" or "redtop grass"*Red Tops, in the United Kingdom, some tabloid newspapers, especially those with a red logo on their front page banners...
Skybolt ALBM
Skyflash
Skyflash

The British Aerospace Skyflash was a medium-range semi-active radar homing air-to-air missile derived from the US AIM-7 Sparrow missile and carried by Royal Air Force F4 Phantoms and Panavia Tornado ADV, Italian Air force and Royal Saudi Air Force Tornados and Royal Swedish Air Force Saab 37 Viggen....
Storm Shadow (UK)
Super 530
Super 530

The Matra Super 530 is a France medium to short range air-to-air missile. The Super 530 series is an improved type of the Matra R530 missile.*Super 530F is carried on the Dassault Mirage F1....
(France)
Taurus KEPD 350
Taurus missile

TAURUS KEPD 350 is a Germany/Sweden air-launched cruise missile, manufactured by TAURUS Systems GmbH and used by Germany and Spain. TAURUS Systems is a partnership between LFK and Saab Bofors Dynamics....
(Germany)
Vympel K-13
Vympel K-13

The K-13 , was one of the world's most proliferated air-to-air missiles. Developed by the Soviet Union as a reverse-engineered copy of the AIM-9 Sidewinder, it saw widespread service in many nations....
(Russia)
Vympel R-23
Vympel R-23

The Vympel R-23 is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union for fighter aircraft. An updated version with greater range, the R-24, replaced it in service....
(Russia)
Vympel R-27
Vympel R-27

The Vympel R-27 is a medium-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. It remains in service with the Commonwealth of Independent States and Russian Air Force....
(Russia)
Vympel R-33
Vympel R-33

The Vympel R-33 is a long-range air-to-air missile developed by the Soviet Union. It is the primary armament of the Mikoyan MiG-31 interceptor, intended to attack large high-speed targets such as the SR-71 Blackbird, the B-1 Lancer bomber, and the B-52 Stratofortress....
(Russia)
Vympel R-73
Vympel R-73

The Vympel R-73 developed by Vympel NPO machine-building design bureau, is the most modern Russian short-range air-to-air missile....
(Russia)
Vympel R-77
Vympel R-77

The Russian R-77 Missile is a medium range, air-to-air, active radar-guided missile system. It is the Russian counterpart to the American AIM-120 AMRAAM missile, thus gaining the nickname Amraamski....
(Russia)
X-4 missile (Germany WW2)
SD-10
SD-10

The PL-12 or SD-10 is a BVRAAM developed for China's People's Liberation Army Air Force and Pakistan Air Force ....

Air-launched rockets

Hydra 70
Hydra 70

The Hydra 70 rocket is a weapon derived from the 2.75 inch "Folding-Fin Aerial Rocket" developed by the United States Navy for use as a free-flight aerial rocket in the late 1940s....
CRV7
CRV7

The CRV7 is a 2.75 inch folding-fin ground attack rocket produced by Bristol Aerospace in Winnipeg, Manitoba. When it was first introduced in the early 1970s it was the highest performing 2.75 inch rocket in the world, the first with enough energy to penetrate standard Warsaw Pact aircraft hangars....
(Canada)
Le Prieur rocket
Le Prieur rocket

Le Prieur rockets were a type of incendiary air-to-air rockets used in World War I against observation balloons and airships. They were invented by the France Lieutenant Yves Le Prieur and were first used in the Battle of Verdun on 1916....
R4M rocket
R4M rocket

The R4M rocket, nicknamed the Hurricane due to its distinctive smoke trail when fired, was the first practical anti-aircraft rocket. It was developed by the Germany Luftwaffe during World War II and used briefly before the end of the war....
RP-3
RP-3

The RP-3 , was a United Kingdom rocket used in the Second World War. Though primarily an air-to-ground weapon, it saw limited use in other roles....
RS-82, RS-132, M-8, M-13
RS-82 rocket

RS-82 and RS-132 were unguided rockets used by Soviet military aircraft in World War II....
SNEB
SNEB

The SNEB rocket is an unguided Ground-attack aircraft 68 mm rocket projectile manufactured by the France company TDA Armements, designed for launch by combat aircraft and helicopters....
68 mm rocket projectile

Air-launched torpedoes

Mark 44 torpedo
Mark 44 torpedo

The Mark 44 torpedo is an obsolete air-launched and ship-launched lightweight torpedo manufactured in the United States, and under licence in the Canada, France, Italy, Japan and the United Kingdom with 10,500 being produced for U.S....
Mark 46 torpedo
Mark 46 torpedo

Designed to attack high-performance submarines, the Mark 46 torpedo is the backbone of the U.S. Navy's lightweight Anti-submarine warfare torpedo inventory, and is the current NATO standard....
Stingray torpedo (UK)
Pentane torpedo (UK)
MU90 Impact
MU90 Impact

The MU90/IMPACT is an advanced lightweight anti-submarine torpedo used by navies of German Navy, French Navy, Marina Militare, Royal Danish Navy, Royal Australian Navy and Polish Navy....
(EU)

List of aircraft weapons

Aircraft mounted guns

Air-dropped bombs

Air-launched missiles

Air-launched rockets

Air-launched torpedoes

See also