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* 37mm and 40mm grenade launchers can perform [[The Same but More|most of the above, but on a bigger scale.]]
* [[World War 2]] destroyers could do anti-air, anti-submarine, and anti-surface work as well as providing amphibious support. Because they usually packed torpedoes as well as guns, they could punch above their weight if they got close in a surface action. And because they were cheap and fast they were the main competitors with submarines. Nobody could get enough destroyers.
* One of the wackier examples. Perhaps better called a piece of impedimenta (Mili-speak for "miscellaneous stuff") then a weapon proper the condom saw a lot of warlike usage besides [[Screw the War, We're Partying|the obvious]]. One common use was to cap rifle muzzles in the rain. Another time, frogmen on Okinawa on an obstacle clearing mission put a condom on top of each punji stake (technically they weren't punji stakes as this was not Vietnam, but everyone has always used them and a stake is a stake). On one occasion a Haganah agent used them to smuggle messages behind German lines. All this made them a suprisingly high-demand item. But there is untold hilarity about when supply officers get a request and think, "What in the world do they need that many condoms for."
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