In ancient times, weapons were differentiated from production tools, that is, from the invention of weapons to the invention of gunpowder and widely used in war. Cold weapons appeared in the early stage of the development of human society and evolved from labor tools such as farming and hunting. With the development of war and production level, they have gone through a process of development and perfection from low to high, from single to diverse, from complex to unified.

2. In the era of thermal weapons,

In A.D. 1 132, a military strategist in the Southern Song Dynasty invented a musket, which is the earliest tubular firearm in the world military history and can be called the originator of modern tubular firearms. By the end of the Southern Song Dynasty (1259), people in Shouchun Prefecture had created a musket, which used giant bamboo as the barrel and fired bullets (including black powder, ceramic tiles, broken iron, stones and so on). ).

When it is detonated, the flame is ejected from the muzzle, and the bullet flies out and scatters to kill the opponent. This is the real origin of modern shotguns.

/kloc-in the 3rd century, gunpowder and metal tube-shaped firearms from China were introduced to Europe, and muskets developed rapidly. /kloc-At the beginning of the 5th century, the Spanish invented the matchlock gun. Later, it was copied by the Ming dynasty and called bird's nest.

Until AD 1525, the Italian Finch invented the flint gun, changed the match rope ignition to flint, and gradually overcame the influence of climate, simplified the shooting procedure, improved the shooting accuracy and could shoot at any time.

The invention of the afterloading gun was a major change in firearms in the19th century, which ended the 500-year history of loading bullets from the muzzle with a rifle probe and was called "a new era of light weapons and infantry tactics" by some history books.

3. In the era of nuclear weapons,

Nuclear weapons refer to weapons of great destruction related to nuclear reactions, including hydrogen bombs, atomic bombs, neutron bombs, three-phase bombs and antimatter bombs.

1945 The nuclear weapons dropped on Nagasaki, Japan caused mushroom clouds as high as 18 km. It marks that the weapons stage of mankind has entered the nuclear weapons stage.

4. In the information war era,

2 1 century, the rapid development and wide application of high technology promoted the development of weapons and equipment, the evolution of combat mode, the innovation of military theory and the change of organizational system, and triggered a new military revolution.

Information warfare will eventually replace mechanized warfare and become the basic form of future warfare. Information-based war refers to a war that takes place in the information age, is based on information, and uses information-based weapons and equipment as war tools.