Conventional weapons or conventional arms are weapons whose damaging impact comes from kinetic, incendiary, or explosive energy.
They stand in contrast to weapons of mass destruction (e.g., nuclear, biological, radiological, and chemical weapons[1]).
Conventional weapons include small arms, defensive shields, light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as bombs, shells, rockets, missiles, and cluster munitions.
[2] These weapons use explosive material based on chemical energy, as opposed to nuclear energy in nuclear weapons.
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