Chronology

Chronological List of Entries

Note: Influential weapons systems and advances in military technology, and notable individual examples of both, may be placed at locations other than indicated.

Spears and Other Pole Arms

Throwing Sticks or Throwing Clubs

Picks and War Hammers

Mechanical Artillery

Spring-Powered Artillery Engines

Torsion-Powered Artillery Engines

Counterweight-Powered Artillery Engines

Viking Longboat

Land Mines and Mining

Snaplock (Snaphance)

Pistols, Early Types

Land Artillery, Early Gunpowder Types

Naval Artillery, Early Types

Gunner’s Quadrant

Ship of the Line

Shrapnel (Spherical Case Shot)

Case Shot (Canister or Canister Shot)

Rifle (Muzzle-Loader)

Turtle Submarine

Popham’s Signal System

Rockets, Early Types

Ironclad Warships

Naval Gun Turret

Breech-Loading Rifle

Dreyse Needle Gun

Mauser Gewehr 98 Rifle

Mauser C96 Pistol

Steel Armor, Naval

Armor-Piercing Projectiles

Quick-Firing Naval Gun

Smokeless Gunpowder

Trinitrotoluene

Breech-Loading Field Artillery

French 75mm Gun

Breech-Loading Heavy Guns at Sea

Hollow or Shaped Charge

Browning (Colt) .45 Semiautomatic Pistol

Browning Automatic Rifle

MP18 Submachine Gun

Big Bertha Mortar

Livens Projector

Motor Transport

Antimaterial Rifle

Wright Brothers’ Military Flyer

Aircraft, World War I

Fokker E.I Eindecker Fighter Aircraft

Interrupter Gear

De Havilland DH 2 Fighter Aircraft

Nieuport 17 Fighter Aircraft

Sopwith F.1 Camel Fighter Aircraft

Sikorsky Ilya Mourometz Heavy Bomber

Gotha G IV Bomber

Handley Page O/100 and O/400 Bombers

Director Fire Control and New Range Finding at Sea

Dreadnought, HMS

Invincible-Class Battle Cruisers

Submarine Development to 1914

Antiaircraft Artillery

Browning M2 .50-Caliber Heavy Machine Gun

Molotov Cocktail

Biological Weapons

German 88mm Gun

M-2A1/M-101A1 105mm Howitzer

Long Lance Torpedo

Thompson M1A1 Submachine Gun

MP40 Submachine Gun

M1 Garand Rifle

MG42 Machine Gun

Mortars, Post–World War I

T-34 Soviet Medium Tank

M4 Sherman Medium Tank

PzKpfw V Panther Medium Tank

PzKpfw Tiger and King Tiger

Self-Propelled Guns and Artillery

DUKW Amphibian Truck

Destroyer Escort

Yamato-Class Battleships, Japanese

Iowa-Class Battleships, U.S. Navy

Essex-Class Aircraft Carriers

Escort Aircraft Carriers

A6M Reisen (Zero) Japanese Fighter Aircraft

Bf 109 German Fighter

Junkers Ju 87 Stuka German Dive-Bomber

Hawker Hurricane British Fighter

Supermarine Spitfire British Fighter

North American P-51 Mustang U.S. Army Air Forces Fighter

Grumman F6F Hellcat U.S. Navy Fighter

Ilyushin Il-2 Sturmovik Soviet Ground-Attack Aircraft

Grumman TBF/TBM Avenger U.S. Torpedo Bomber

Avro Lancaster Heavy Bomber

Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress Heavy Bomber

Consolidated B-24 Liberator Heavy Bomber

Boeing B-29 Superfortress Heavy Bomber

Jet and Rocket Aircraft of World War II

Douglas C-47 Skytrain Transport Aircraft

Sikorsky R-4 Helicopter

Incendiary Bombs

Katyusha Rocket

V-2 Guided Missile

AK47 Kalashnikov Assault Rifle

Recoilless Rifles

Armored Personnel Carriers and Infantry Fighting Vehicles

Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15

North American F-86 Sabre Jet Fighter

Boeing B-52 Stratofortress

Surface-to-Air Missiles

Nautilus, U.S. Navy Submarine

M79 Grenade Launcher

M18A1 Claymore Mine

M61 Vulcan 20mm Auto Cannon

M134 (GAU-2B) Minigun

Ship-to-Ship Missiles

RPG-7 Rocket-Propelled Grenade Launcher

Antitank Guided Missiles

Flechette Ammunition

Lockheed U-2 Dragon Lady Reconnaissance Aircraft

McDonnell Douglas F-4 Phantom II

Republic F-105 Thunderchief

Bell UH-1 Iroquois Helicopter

Bell AH-1 Cobra and AH-1W SuperCobra Attack Helicopters

Mil Mi-24 Hind Helicopter

AIM-9 Sidewinder Missile

Intercontinental Ballistic Missiles

MX Missile System

Cruise Missiles

Polaris Missile

Precision-Guided Munitions

Cluster Bomb/Munition

M48 and M60 U.S. Main Battle Tanks

T-54/T-55 Soviet Main Battle Tank

M1A1 and M1A2 Abrams Main Battle Tank

Merkava Israeli Main Battle Tank

Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk Helicopter

Hughes (McDonnell Douglas/Boeing) AH-64 Apache Helicopter

Hawker-Siddeley/McDonnell Douglas Sea Harrier

Night-Vision Devices

Nimitz-Class U.S. Navy Aircraft Carriers

Ohio-Class U.S. Navy Submarines

Stealth Technology

Northrop Grumman B-2 Spirit

Global Positioning System

Unmanned Aerial Vehicles

Panzerhaubitze 2000 German Self-Propelled Howitzer

Thermobaric Bomb

Improvised Explosive Devices