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This definitive guide covers the entire history of weapons, from the earliest, most primitive instruments up to remarkable advances in modern defense and warfare, including:

Riot-control devices Electrified nightsticks Infantry weapons Multiple-launch rockets Fiber-optic missles Wire-guided torpedoes

Stealth technology

This definitive guide covers the entire history of weapons, from the earliest, most primitive instruments up to remarkable advances in modern defense and warfare, Riot-control devices Electrified nightsticks Infantry weapons Multiple-launch rockets Fiber-optic missles Wire-guided torpedoes "Stealth" technology Now updated with a new chapter, "The Thinking Battlefield," covering the remarkable advances in modern weapons in the 1980s and projected for the 1990s Explains and provides illustrations of representative selections of weapons from all ages and cultures