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This dimension sorts weapon systems by their basic class, a firearm, a tank, a missile or a biological weapon. Wikipedia notes that weapons range "from simple implements such as clubs and swords to complicated modern firearms, tanks, missiles and biological weapons." Browsing by weapon class keeps weapon systems of the same kind grouped together.

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Era of Emergence
1350 1
Weapon Type or Class

152.4mm self-propelled howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

155 mm field gun (heavy towed field gun, nicknamed Long Tom)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

82mm man-portable mortar

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Anti-aircraft autocannon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Anti-aircraft gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Anti-tank recoilless gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

artillery piece

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Artillery rocket

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Autocannon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Automatic anti-aircraft gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Chain gun autocannon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

coastal defense cannon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Field artillery (12-pounder cannon)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Field gun / gun-howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

field gun-howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Gas and incendiary trench mortar

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

heavy anti-aircraft and anti-tank gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

light mountain gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Light self-propelled gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Long-range artillery weapons

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Long-range siege gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Medium trench mortar

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Mortar

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Multiple rocket launcher

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Muzzle-loading naval gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Naval gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Naval gun (intermediate-calibre, Age of Sail)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Railway gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

recoilless anti-tank gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Recoilless gun

Weapon Type or Class
3 entries

Rocket artillery

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Rocket launcher

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

self-propelled 120 mm mortar

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Self-propelled anti-aircraft gun

Weapon Type or Class
3 entries

Self-propelled artillery

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Self-propelled artillery gun

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

Self-propelled assault gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Self-propelled gun

Weapon Type or Class
4 entries

Self-propelled howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
14 entries

Self-propelled multiple rocket launcher

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

short, smoothbore, cast-iron naval cannon

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Siege howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Smoothbore muzzle-loading trench mortar (Stokes mortar)

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Tactical nuclear recoilless smoothbore gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

tank and aircraft gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Towed 152mm gun-howitzer artillery piece

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Towed 155 mm howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Towed anti-aircraft gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Towed field gun

Weapon Type or Class
1 entry

Towed howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries

wheeled self-propelled howitzer

Weapon Type or Class
2 entries
Sources
1. Wikipedia: Artillery
WikipediaArtillery, Invention of gunpowder section
Quote, Artillery, Invention of gunpowder section
Early Chinese artillery had vase-like shapes. This includes the "long range awe inspiring" cannon dated from 1350
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