This relation records which wars a given weapon system was used in, connecting a piece of military equipment to the conflicts where it saw action. Warfare has always been shaped by the weapons available to the forces fighting it, from the bronze weapons of the Bronze Age to the gunpowder weapons whose invention and eventual use in warfare accelerated the technological changes that transformed war itself. Reading this relation from a weapon system's page shows the wars it was used in; reading it from a war's page shows the weapon systems its combatants employed.
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War (Wikipedia)
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The Bronze Age has been described as a key period in the intensification of warfare, with the emergence of dedicated warriors and the development of metal weapons like swords. The invention of gunpowder, and its eventual use in warfare, together with the acceleration of technological advances, have fomented major changes to war itself.
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