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Weapon - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (2653 words) |
 | In ancient times, from the dawn of humanity through the Classical civilizations of Greece and Rome, weapons were primarily extensions of an individual's strength, essentially making up for the human body's lack of natural weapons such as claws. |
| Suicide weapons are typically explosive in nature and exploit the willingness of their operator to not survive the attack to reach their target. |
| Infantry support weapons are designed to attack various threats to infantry units, supporting the infantry's operations, including heavy machine guns, mortars and pinpoint airstrikes ordered by the infantry, often to strike heavily defended positions, such as enemy camps or extensively powerful machine-gun nests. |
| Ancient warfare - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (6027 words) |
| Ancient warfare is war as conducted from the beginnings of recorded history to the end of the ancient period. |
| Because tightly packed infantry were the formation of choice, in order for ancient generals to maintain command and control during the battle as well as for mutual protection, a force of chariots could stand off at long range and rain arrows down on the infantrymen's heads. |
| Ancient weapons included the bow and arrow; polearms such as the spear and javelin; hand-to-hand weapons such as swords, spears, clubs, axes, and knives. |
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