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

This is a list of weapons served individually by the United States armed forces. While the general understanding is that crew-served weapons require more than one person to operate them, there are important exceptions in the case of both squad automatic weapons (SAW) and sniper rifles. Within the Table of Organization and Equipment for both the United States Army and the U.S. Marine Corps, these two classes of weapons are considered as crew-served; the operator of the weapon has an assistant who carries additional ammunition and associated equipment, acts as a spotter, and is also fully qualified in the operation of the weapon. These weapons are listed under the List of crew-served weapons of the U.S. armed forces.

Bayonets, knives, bayonet-knife models

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service (obsolete)

  • Knife LC-14-B/Type IV Survival Ax (Woodman's Pal)[2]
  • Marine Corps Raiders stiletto by Camillus
  • Mk 1 Utility Knife (Navy)[3]
  • Mk 2 Machete (Navy)
  • Mk 2 Utility Knife (Marine Corps/Navy)[3]
  • M1 bayonet (M1 Garand/M1903)
  • M3 Trench Knife[4]
  • M4 Bayonet (M1 Carbine)
  • M5 Bayonet (M1 Garand)
  • M6 Bayonet (M14)
  • M1795 Bayonet
  • M1812 Bay
  • M1816 Bayonet
  • M1819 Hall Breech-Loading Rifle Socket Bayonet
  • M1841 Mississippi Rifle Bayonet
  • M1847 Musketoon Bayonet
  • M1849 Rifleman's Knife
  • M1855 Socket Bayonet
  • M1861 Navy Rifle Bayonet
  • M1868 Trowel Bayonet
  • M1873 Trowel Bayonet
  • M1880 Hunting Knife (a.k.a. Entrenching knife)
  • M1887 Hospital Corps Knife[5]
  • M1898 Bolo Bayonet
  • M1898 Bowie Bayonet
  • M1892 Bayonet (Krag)
  • M1895 Lee Rifle Bayonet
  • M1904 Hospital Corps Knife[6]
  • M1905 Bayonet (M1903/M1 Garand)
  • M1909 Bolo Knife[7]
  • M1917 Bayonet (M1917 Rifle, M1897, M12 and M1200 Shotguns)
  • M1917 Bolo Knife[8]
  • M1917/M1918/Mark I Trench Knife
  • M1939 Machete
  • M1942 Bayonet (M1903 Springfield/M1 Garand)
  • M1942 Bolo Knife (United States Navy Hospital Corpsman)[9]
  • M1942 Machete[10]
  • Sykes-Fairbairn Commando Knife
  • V-42 combat knife (Case V-42 'Stiletto')
  • V44 Knife

Grenades

In active service

In active service (some branches or limited roles)


Out of service (obsolete)

Handguns

The M1911A1 and M9 pistol.

In active service

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service (obsolete)

U.S. Model 1836 flintlock pistol, on display at Sutter's Fort

Canceled experiments and competitions

Less-lethal

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

  • FN 303 semi-automatic less-lethal riot gun]]
  • M37 MRCD (Mid-size Riot Control Disperser) compressed air weapon[12][13]

Out of service (obsolete)

Rifles

Includes muskets, musketoons, etc., as well as rifles

Weapons from Vietnam and Desert Storm at the National Firearms Museum.[14]

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service (obsolete)

Semi and fully automatic

Bolt action

Breech loading

Lever action

Rifled muskets

  • M1863 Springfield
  • M1861 Springfield (.58)
  • Colt revolving rifle (Colt Model 1855; 6/5-shot revolver rifle;.44/.56)
  • Greene rifle (Bolt-action breech-loader)
  • P53 Enfield (.577 (.58))
  • P51 Enfield Musketoon ("Artillery Carbine"; 24" barrel, .69)
  • Model 1854 Lorenz rifle (Rifle-musket, .54, .58)
  • M1859 Sharps ('New model 1859', breech loader; .52, .56)
  • M1855 Rifle-Musket
  • M1855 Rifle (Percussion muzzle-loader; 58-60-500)
  • M1841 Rifle "Mississippi Rifle" (percussion muzzle-loader;.54, .58)
  • M1819 Hall rifle (Harper's Ferry;Breech-loader)
  • Model 1817 Rifle ('Common rifle';Derringer, Johnson, North and Starr; Flintlock rifle, .54) (later percussion)
  • Model 1814 Common Rifle (Deringer, Johnson; Flintlock rifle; later percussion; .54)
  • Harper's Ferry Model 1803 Rifle (Flintlock rifle; .54)
  • 1792 contract rifle (Flintlock rifle; .49)
  • Kentucky Rifle (Flintlock rifle)

Smoothbore muskets

Experimental

  • LSAT rifle
  • NGSW-R (Next Generation Squad Weapon - Rifle)
  • Sig Sauer SLX Spear
  • General Dynamics RM277

Canceled experiments

  • XM8 rifle (Lightweight Assault Rifle system) - never issued) (5.56×45mm NATO)
  • XM29 (Kinetic Energy and Airburst Launcher System; 5.56×45mm NATO and 20 mm airburst munition (XM1018)(early)/25 mm airburst munition) - experiment canceled
  • Advanced Combat Rifle program entries (concluded 1991)
  • Misc. Future Rifle Program entries (canceled)
  • Special Purpose Individual Weapon (SPIW) program entries - concluded/canceled)

Carbines

In active service

  • M4A1 (5.56×45mm NATO)

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service (obsolete)

Canceled experiments and competitions

Shotguns

In active service

  • M500 (pump-action 12 Gauge)
  • M590 (pump-action 12 Gauge)
  • M590A1 (pump-action 12 Gauge)
  • Saiga-12 (USCG, various U.S. Military Police units)

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service/Canceled

Experimental

Submachine guns

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service (obsolete)

Machine guns

In active service

Anti-tank/Assault

In active service

In active service (some branches or limited roles)

Out of service (obsolete)

Canceled experiments

  • XM25 CDTE (Counter Defilade Target Engagement) (25 mm LV airburst) (US Army) (Cancelled)

Mines

In active service

Swords

Five U.S. Marine Corps privates with fixed bayonets under the command of their noncommissioned officer, who displays his M1859 Marine NCO sword.

In active service

Out of service

  • Model 1832 Foot Artillery Sword
  • Model 1840 Light Artillery Saber
  • Model 1872 Mounted Artillery Officers' Saber
  • Model 1840 Army Musicians' Sword
  • Model 1812/13 Starr Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1818 Starr Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1833 Dragoon Saber
  • Model 1840 Heavy Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1860 Light Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1872 Light Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1906 Light Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1913 "Patton" Cavalry Saber
  • Model 1832 Army Foot Officers' Sword
  • Model 1832 Army General & Staff Officers' Sword
  • Model 1832 Army Medical Staff Officers' Sword
  • Model 1839 Army Topographical Engineer Officers' Sword
  • Model 1840 Army Foot Officers' Sword
  • Model 1840 Army General & Staff Officers' Sword
  • Model 1840 Army Medical Staff Officers' Sword
  • Model 1840 Army Pay Department Officers' Sword
  • Model 1840 Army Engineer Officers' Sword
  • Model 1850 Army Foot Officers' Sword
  • Model 1850 Army Staff & Field Officers' Sword
  • Model 1860 Army Field & Staff Officers' Sword
  • Model 1872 Army Line & Staff Officers' Sword
  • Model 1830 Navy Officers' Sword
  • Model 1841 Navy Officers' Sword
  • Model 1834 Revenue Cutter Service Officers' Sword
  • Model 1870 Revenue Cutter Service Officers' Sword
  • Model 1797 Starr Naval Cutlass
  • Model 1808 Starr Naval Cutlass
  • Mayweg & Nippes "Baltimore" Naval Cutlass, c. 1810
  • Model 1816 Starr Naval Cutlass
  • Model 1826 Starr Naval Cutlass
  • Model 1841 Naval Cutlass
  • Model 1861 Naval Cutlass
  • Model 1917 Naval Cutlass
  • Marine Noncommissioned Officers' Sword, c.1832–1859
  • Marine Officers' Mameluke Sword, 1826–59
  • West Point Cadets' Sword, Model 1872
  • West Point Cadets' Sword, c. 1837

See also

References

  1. "Titanium Knives, Military Survival Knives, Scuba Knives". Missionknives.com. Archived from the original on 2008-06-20. Retrieved 2008-09-08.
  2. "LC-14-B Woodman's Pal". Military Tools with an Edge. Olive-Drab. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  3. Nalty, Bernard C. (1999). War in the Pacific: Pearl Harbor to Tokyo Bay: the Story of the Bitter Struggle in the Pacific Theater of World War II, Featuring Commissioned Photographs of Artifacts from All the Major Combatants. University of Oklahoma Press. p. 136. ISBN 978-0-8061-3199-3.
  4. Bando, Mark (2001). 101st Airborne: The Screaming Eagles at Normandy. Zenith Imprint. p. 31. ISBN 978-0-7603-0855-4.
  5. "M-1887 Hospital Corps Knife Basic Information". Hospital Corps Bolo Knives. The Springfield Edge. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  6. "M-1904 Hospital Corps Knife Basic Information". Hospital Corps Bolo Knives. The Springfield Edge. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  7. "M-1909 Bolo Knife Basic Information". Bolo Knives. The Springfield Edge. Retrieved 2009-02-09.
  8. Levine, Bernard (September 1993). "World War I Bolo". National Knife Magazine.
  9. "USMC Hospital Corpsman Knife". Military Tools with an Edge. Olive-Drab. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  10. "Machetes". Military Tools with an Edge. Olive-Drab. Retrieved 2009-02-10.
  11. Schogol, Jeff (7 August 2017). "Marines opt for the 9 mil over 45s for special operators". marinecorpstimes.com.
  12. "Mid-size Riot Control Disperser (MRCD), XM37". fas.org.
  13. "Solicitation/Contract/Order for Commercial Items" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2009-02-27. Retrieved 2009-02-18.
  14. "National Firearms Museum: Ever Vigilant Gallery, Case 67 description". nramuseum.org.
  15. Beekman, Christian (October 28, 2015). "Here's why the US military is replacing the M16". Business Insider. The M16A4 may soon retire. This week, the Marine Corps announced via internal memo that the M4 carbine will become the primary-issued rifle in infantry and security units, as well as replace the M16 rifle in supporting training schools by September 2016.
  16. Canfield, Bruce N. American Rifleman (April 2009) p.40
  17. Canfield, Bruce N. American Rifleman (April 2009) pp.56-76
  18. US Air Force Material Command. Air Force Instruction 36-2226, Combat Arms Program, Supplement 1. Wright-Patterson AFB: US Air Force Material Command, 2004.
  19. Clark, James (13 June 2017). "These Marines Will Be The First To Get M320 Grenade Launchers". taskandpurpose.com.
  20. "3501.84". www.public.navy.mil.
  21. "MODEL 1860 NAVAL CUTLASS". Goatlocker.org. 2007. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
  22. Vice Admiral Mark Ferguson (January 2011). "R 252348Z JAN 11". Chief of Naval Operations. United States Navy. Retrieved 28 December 2011.
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