Aircrafttotal Encyclopedia
Aircraft weapons
The amazing world of aircraft weapons: from the machine guns of the First World War to today's guided missiles.
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About aircraft weapons
Since the First World War, aircraft have carried weapons: first machine guns that fired through the propeller, then cannons, bombs and, from the 1950s, guided missiles. The weapons often became as famous as the aircraft that carried them.
On these pages you find the air-to-air missiles, air-to-ground missiles, aircraft guns and bombs of the Aircrafttotal Encyclopedia, with their history, the aircraft that carry them and links to more information.
Choose a group below, or use the A–Z list to go straight to a weapon.
| Weapon | Designation | Manufacturer | In service | Type | Status | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
![]() | Fritz X“Ruhrstahl SD 1400 X” | Ruhrstahl | 1943 | Guided glide bomb | Museum | |
![]() | Bouncing bomb“Upkeep” | Barnes Wallis (design) | 1943 | Bouncing bomb | Museum | |
![]() | Fieseler Fi 103 (V-1)“Flying bomb” | V-1 | Fieseler | 1944 | Flying bomb (early cruise missile) | Museum |
| Tallboy | Barnes Wallis (design) | 1944 | Earthquake bomb | Museum | ||
![]() | Grand Slam Bomb, | Barnes Wallis (design) | 1945 | Earthquake bomb | Museum | |
| AIM-9L Sidewinder | AIM-9L | Raytheon | Short-range air-to-air missile | |||
![]() | AIM-9X Sidewinder | AIM-9X | Raytheon | Short-range air-to-air missile | ||
![]() | AIM-132 ASRAAM | AIM-132 | MBDA | Short-range air-to-air missile | ||
![]() | AIM-7 Sparrow | AIM-7 | Raytheon | Medium-range air-to-air missile | ||
![]() | AIM-120 AMRAAM | AIM-120 | Raytheon | Medium-range air-to-air missile | ||
![]() | AIM-54 Phoenix | AIM-54 | Hughes Aircraft / Raytheon | Long-range air-to-air missile | Retired | |
| AIM-260 JATM | AIM-260 | Lockheed Martin | Long-range air-to-air missile | In development | ||
| MBDA Meteor | MBDA | Beyond-visual-range air-to-air missile | ||||
| Boeing AGM-86 ALCM | AGM-86 | Boeing | Air-launched cruise missile | |||
| McDonnell AGM-84 Harpoon | AGM-84 | McDonnell Douglas / Boeing | Anti-ship missile | |||
| Raytheon Tomahawk | BGM-109 | Raytheon | Long-range cruise missile | |||
![]() | AGM-88 HARM | AGM-88 | Texas Instruments / Raytheon | Anti-radiation missile | ||
![]() | AGM-65 Maverick | AGM-65 | Hughes Aircraft / Raytheon | Air-to-ground missile | ||
![]() | AGM-114 Hellfire | AGM-114 | Lockheed Martin | Air-to-surface missile | ||
| AGM-154 JSOW | AGM-154 | Raytheon | Glide weapon (Joint Standoff Weapon) | |||
| Lewis Gun | Birmingham Small Arms | Light machine gun | Museum | |||
| Spandau MG 08“Maschinengewehr 08” | Machine gun | Museum | ||||
| Vickers K machine gun | Vickers | Machine gun | Museum | |||
| MG 131 | Rheinmetall-Borsig | Aircraft machine gun | Museum | |||
| Hispano-Suiza HS.404 | Hispano-Suiza | Autocannon | Museum | |||
| Bofors 40 mm L/60 | Bofors | Autocannon | ||||
| ADEN 30 mm cannon | Royal Small Arms Factory | Revolver cannon | ||||
| Nudelman-Rikhter NR-23 | Nudelman-Rikhter | Autocannon | ||||
| M61 Vulcan | General Electric | Six-barrel rotary cannon | ||||
![]() | GAU-8 Avenger | General Electric | Seven-barrel rotary cannon | |||
| Mauser BK-27“Bordkanone 27” | Mauser | Revolver cannon | ||||
| M230 chain gun | Hughes Helicopters | Chain gun | ||||
![]() | Mark 80 series (Mk 82/83/84) | Mk 82 | General-purpose bomb | |||
| Paveway | Texas Instruments / Raytheon | Laser-guided bomb | ||||
![]() | JDAM“Joint Direct Attack Munition” | Boeing | GPS guidance kit | |||
![]() | GBU-43/B MOAB“Massive Ordnance Air Blast” | GBU-43/B | Large air-blast bomb |
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