List of individual weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces

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Individual weapons by type and current level of use. The list is weighted towards 20th and 21st century army weapons and is not complete.

Contents

Bayonets, knives, bayonet-knife models

Sidearms

Shotguns

Submachine guns

Compact carbine

Rifles

Squad automatic weapon/automatic rifle and Sniper/marksman rifles

These two sub-lists are maintained at List of crew-served weapons of the U.S. Armed Forces due to the complicated nature of firearm categorization.

While some SAW-type firearms over time have been individually used in infantry crew-served weapons, modern ones are classified as crew-served only and normally used as such. The same is true for sniper rifles. In both cases, some have been used as the reverse of official classifications, and for many, there is no historical classification.

Anti-tank/assault

Some of these are crew-served.

Grenades (Hand and Launched)

See Survey of Modern US Hand Grenades for grenades without links.

Also see Survey of Modern US 40mm Grenades for information on launched grenades.

  • In active service
  • In active serivce (some branches, secondary or limited roles)
  • Out of Service 'Obsolete'
    • M25/A1
    • M7/A1/A2
    • M6/A1
    • Mk 1 Mod 0/1/2/3
    • M34
    • M16
    • M15
    • M8
    • M33
    • M61
    • M26/A1
    • Mk III/IIIA1/IIIA2 (aka Mk 3/A1/A2)
    • Mk II/IIA1 (aka Mk 2/2A1) (Frag)
    • M1 Frangible
    • Ketchum grenades (Civil War era)
  • Experimental

Sensors/Lasers/Designators

Some of these are crew-served

Less-lethal / Non-lethal

  • In active service (some branches, secondary or limited roles)
  • Out of Service 'Obsolete'

See also

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