Conventional weapon

Conventional weapons are those weapons that are not weapons of mass destruction. They can include weapons such as armoured fighting vehicles, armed helicopters, combat aircraft, artillery and warships. They can also include (but are not limited to) small arms, ammunition, cluster munitions, incendiary device and land mines. There is no single definition of conventional weapons.European Security, eds. Wilfried von Bredow; Thomas Jäger; Gerhard Kümmel (Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire; London: MacMillan Press Ltd., 1997), p. 82 But they are the main weapons used in modern conventional warfare.

 UN Register of Conventional Arms 
The United Nations set up the UN Register of Conventional Arms (UNROCA) in 1991.Peter Hough; Shahin Malik; Andrew Moran; Bruce Pilbeam (London; New York: Routledge, 2015), p. 134 UN member nations add details of their imports and exports of conventional weapons. There are seven categories of conventional weapons in the register.

 Category I – Battle tanks.
 Category II – Armored combat vehicles.
 Category III – Large-calibre artillery systems.
 Category IV – Combat aircraft.
 Category V – Attack helicopters.
 Category VI – Warships.
 Category VII – Missiles and missile launchers.

 Related pages 
 Small arms
 Nuclear weapon
 Chemical weapon
 Biological weapon

 References 

 Other websites 
 Nuclear and Conventional Weapons 
 Small Arms: The Real Weapons of Mass Destruction | Military Update; YouTube

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