Weapons Systems

This section is the top-level band for weapons and weapons systems as they were actually fielded and used in war, described by weapon class and the year introduced. A visitor here is looking for how a weapon performed in service, not the invention story behind it, which Technology keeps as its own subject with its own edges; the two accounts are cross-linked by a same-as edge rather than duplicated, so a reader can move between the operational and the inventive record of the same device.