A tool or instrument used in order to inflict damage or harm to living beings - physical or mental -, artificial structures, or systems.
Questions tagged [weapons]
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Was a semi-automatic rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre?
Many people are claiming a semi-automatic rifle was not used in the Sandy Hook Massacre? Is this true, was a semi-automatic rifle used in the Sandy Hook massacre?
NBC citing "federal officials, and state officials" the day after the shooting (Dec…
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Did the government of Nazi Germany sell Mauser pistols to an underground Jewish army?
The Guardian article Ken Livingstone faces fresh inquiry over Hitler Zionism remarks quotes Livingstone as saying:
the Nazi government...started selling Mauser pistols to the underground Jewish army
Is this true? Did the government of Nazi…
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Did priests use maces because they did not spill blood?
Many games and stories that draw upon medieval history tend to claim that priests use maces because they do not spill blood.
Wikipedia provides a citation for this on the Mace page, as does the page on the Cleric class (uncited):
It is popularly…
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Is it possible to dodge the fire of matchlock muskets?
I heard some legends about an early 17th century outlaw, who on one occasion allegedly defeated alone a number of musketeers: because of the terrain, they could only advance in a single line, so one had to shoot, and retreat to reload (if surviving…
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Is it possible to disable a vehicle with microwave oven magnetron from that distance
In a well-known Youtube channel there is a scene where a scooter had some kind of short circuit caused by magnetron used as a weapon from a distance. I never saw this channel to have fakes but one guy does not believe, saying:
OK, rough…
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Is Israel exporting 100s-of-Millions, or Billions, USD of arms per year?
A multi-annual chart on the "trading economies website suggests Israeli arms exports have a "total insurable value" of hundreds of millions of USD per year.
However, this story on the global defense corp site suggests arms exports are in the…
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Are there artificially created viruses that are both deadly like Ebola and transmissible like the common cold?
A popular YouTube personality, Dr. John Campbell, a retired nurse teacher, makes a claim in a May 4th video around the 4m27s mark:
Now let's be quite clear. No-one is saying [SARS-CoV-2] is a synthesized virus. Now, no-one will admit this... but…
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Do the military have the technology to trigger earthquakes?
When I was scholar at one class on "aircraft equipments" we also talked about weapons.
The teacher mentioned that the military was developing weapons which were going to cause earthquakes. That was many years ago but whenever I hear about some…
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Are the computers connected to missile early warning systems limited by international treaty?
With reference to a question Are there still any companies/academic centers that use mainframes from 60s-70s? on Programmers stack exchange, I answered mentioning the following:
When I was working at RAF Filingdales in the mid 90's, on the…
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Was the yellow fever virus a past standardized biological weapon in the US Army?
Dany Shoham writes in a 2012 paper [full text, paywalled]:
The yellow fever virus – a past standardized BW in the US Army, then carried by infected Aedes mosquitoes as vectors – was thus genetically engineered in conjunction with IAV, resulting in…
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Are there 'friendly' fire restrictions programmed into exported (american) weaponry?
There appeared a claim, probably in context of the turkish-russian incident:
This seems too far off to be true, but it got me wondering whether nations implement precautions to prevent 'friendly' fire who export sophisticated weapons such as…
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Did Assad use chemical weapons in Syria?
Related to Were chemical weapons being used in the civil war in Syria before 2014?.
While the consensus at the time seemed to be that the government was using chemical weapons (this in particular was the position of the US government), and that…
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Are US cops trained to escalate the violence?
While in many countries the policemen are trained to de-escalate or are even legally bound to do so, US cops kill suspects so often, because allegedly escalation is part of their training. Allegedly the escalation of violence is being taught as a…
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Are drugs, sex and weapons the largest three markets?
I heard a claim from a guy in my class during high school, which was like 6 years ago or so, saying that the three 'biggest markets' in the world are drugs, sex and weapons.
It of course implied quite a bit about human nature, and the state of the…
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Does the GRU-43/B "Massive Ordnance Air Blast" weapon cost $US16 million?
I read in the past for the existence of the so called "Mother Of All Bombs" and for some reason I still thought it was a fuel-air or thermobaric bomb. However after the first operational use (here) I went back to re-read its technical aspects.
It…
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