Category talk:Military equipment

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Anyone else think there's some definite overlap between this and Category: Weapons?

If so, should one of these be a subset of the other? Oberiko 00:36, 5 Oct 2004 (UTC)

Weapons are now under "Military equipment by type."

Contents

[edit] Hierarchy

Since this is essentially the root of all military related technology, I'm going to propose a hierarchy here.

We should have three main sorting criteria: era, type and nationality.

[edit] Era

The eras I suggest are similar to those used on the weapons page: (Note: added period boundaries - eras include bookend time around the specific event that may have given the era its name. Joshbaumgartner 02:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC))

  • Ancient (all weapons up to the Middle Ages)
  • Middle Ages
    • Can cover all from the fall of Rome up to the Age of Exploration.
  • Age of Exploration (mostly naval)
    • Covers the 16th Century
  • Age of Sail (ships only)
    • Only for classification of ships, due to their unique development path. Covers from the beginning of the 17th Century through the middle of the 19th Century.
  • Victorian Age
    • Era covers the second half of the 19th Century
  • World War I
    • Generally from the beginning of the 20th Century through the end of World War I (1900-1919)
  • Interwar period (Aircraft only)
    • Only aircraft had enough development to warrant seperating this out, covers aircraft developed after World War I but which weren't part of World War II.
  • World War II
    • For most, anything from after World War I through the end of World War II (1920-1945), for aircraft maybe not those of the Interwar Period.
  • Cold War
    • Everything from after WWII through the end of the Cold War (1945-1990)
  • Modern
    • Everything from the end of the Cold War through today (1990-Present)
  • Future
    • Planned, proposed, and hypothetical items.

We can place specific conflicts within the various eras: Vietnam military equipment would be a subcategory of Cold War military equipment etc.

Additional periods can be created to fit the needs of the specific country and/or type of equipment. Joshbaumgartner 02:49, 1 December 2005 (UTC)

[edit] Type

Our main types would differ somewhat according to the era, but I think the main types would be:

  • Vehicles
    • Armored fighting vehicles
  • Naval ships
  • Aircraft
  • Personal equipment
  • Space equipment
  • Weapons 1

1 - Weapons includes the following: Guns, bombs, missiles etc. There is thus some overlap with personal equipment and weapons.

The type list will undoubtedly get larger, but I think we can subcategorize mostly within those boundries. Oberiko 16:37, 28 Apr 2005 (UTC)


[edit] In Defense of My Putting "Tomahawk" in this Category

The page on Tomahawk says it was used as a melee weapon during Vietnam, and is now used sometimes in Iraq for breaking down doors and fighting once inside.