All Protective And Support Equipment

Fielded materiel that protects or supports the fighting soldier or crew rather than delivering a munition itself: body armor, combat helmets, night vision and targeting optics, and other individual or crew protective and support gear. Belongs here: a fielded weapons-system-type entity whose own attested classification is protective or support equipment rather than a weapon in its own right. Does not belong here: any entity whose weapon class names an actual arm, vehicle, aircraft, vessel or munition, which belongs to one of the other nine weapon-type subcategories. Reassigned from the Weapons Systems Contemporary catch-all.