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n. A weapon of warfare which is not nuclear, chemical, or biological in nature.
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The terms conventional weapons or conventional arms generally refer to weapons that are in relatively wide use that are not weapons of mass destruction (e.g. nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons). Any armament used in crimes, conflicts or wars are categorized as Conventional weapons and includes small arms and light weapons, sea and land mines, as well as (non-weapons of mass destruction) bombs, shells, rockets, missiles, cluster munitions, SALW fuel intrastate conflicts, human rights violations, domestic and transnational crime etc.These weapons use explosive material based on chemical energy, as opposed to nuclear energy in nuclear weapons.
The acceptable use of all types of conventional weapons in war time is governed by the Geneva Conventions. Certain types of conventional weapons are also regulated or prohibited under the United Nations Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons. Others are prohibited under the Convention on Cluster Munitions, the Ottawa Treaty (also known as the Mine Ban Treaty) and Arms Trade Treaty.
Usage examples of "conventional weapon".
He assured her that, although destruction was significant in the dock and fabrication areas, his workspace was located in a safe area where no known conventional weapon could reach him.
You don't have to worry about trajectory or bullet drop or any of that other dust that's important with a conventional weapon.
This might not be a conventional weapon nor even the fruits of some theft—.
If his people can't turn it off, they can either blow it up, like a conventional weapon, or take it offshore and dump it to explode at sea.
If the tugs fired a conventional weapon, they'd blast the dome and kill us all.
A conventional weapon, good over short distances when properly manned.
He was used to carrying a cutlass instead of the long sword, but Frauk, the caravan master, had insisted Jherek use the more conventional weapon because he'd wanted all his men armed similarly.
It looked like a conventional weapon, not a gas gun or a disguised beamer, but Kickaha had no way of determining its exact type at that moment.
It didn't have the range or penetrating capability of a conventional weapon, but against Spookies there was nothing on God's Green Earth more effective.
The PCC was so huge that no single conventional weapon could destroy it - and bringing a nuclear weapon aboard was impossible.