light weapons
Portable combat arms
Light weapons are military arms that can be carried and operated by a small group of people, typically two or three.
The category includes heavy machine guns, mortars, portable anti-tank systems, and shoulder-fired missiles—heavier than individual firearms but still transportable without vehicles.
The term appears frequently in arms control discussions and international treaties regulating weapons transfers.
- small armsHandheld military weapons
- pistolsSmall one-handed firearms
- riflesLong-barreled shoulder firearms
- assault riflesSelective-fire infantry firearms
- grenadesSmall thrown explosive devices
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- arms tradearms trade, arms exports, arms dealer, arms trafficking, arms deals
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Large-caliber battlefield weapons
tanks · heavy artillery · heavy ordnance · weapons of mass destruction · nuclear weapons
light weaponsweapons of mass destruction
Arms causing widespread casualties
WMD · nuclear weapons · thermonuclear weapons · ballistic missiles · ICBMs
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