Weapon of war
Under military weapons are weapons meant that for warfare are provided with military equipment all material weapons including serving of warfare understood.
Germany
In Germany, the waste within the meaning law on the control of weapons of war include the following weapons as weapons of war
- ABC weapons
- Warplanes and attack helicopters
- Warships , landing craft and submarines
- Main battle tanks and other armored vehicles
- Missile weapons and their mobile and stationary launch devices
- Howitzers , artillery , land mines , sea mines , anti-personnel mines , mortars , mine-laying devices and high-explosive bombs
- Fully automatic firearms such as machine carbines , machine guns , assault rifles and submachine guns ( war weapons )
- Flamethrowers and grenade launchers
- Hand grenades and cluster munitions
- Torpedoes , land mines / sea mines / anti-personnel mines / anti-tank mines , bombs and depth charges
- Anti-tank hand weapons such as bazooka and RPG
- Warheads and most of the ammunition for the listed weapons
A weapon of war is rendered unusable if it has finally lost the ability to be used as intended due to technical changes and cannot be made functional again with commonly used tools.
Switzerland
Swiss legislation does not explicitly differentiate between weapons and other war material.
The War Material Ordinance defines what counts as war material on the basis of Art. 5 Para. 3 KMG. The list is divided into 22 main groups, including weapons such as "handguns and handguns of any caliber" or "bombs, torpedoes, rockets, missiles", but also other war material such as "warships" or technologies such as "cryogenic (low-temperature) and superconducting Equipment ”or“ software ”. For each group there is a detailed description of what counts.
Web links
- Germany: Law on the Control of War Weapons: Annex (to Section 1 Paragraph 1) War Weapons List
- Switzerland: Ordinance on War Material (War Material Ordinance, KMV)
- Ordinance on the rendering of war weapons unusable and the handling of war weapons rendered unusable (War Weapons Unusable and Handling Ordinance - KrWaffUnbrUmgV) in the Federal Law Gazette