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Ancillary weapon
An ancillary weapon is a weapon used for secondary or auxiliary purpose, such as a bayonet, combat knife or an officer's side arm. Through until the 19th century, an officer's side arm was typically a sword or saber, changing to a revolver between the late 19th century to World War I and since World War II, a semi-automatic handgun. Some soldiers such as Special Forces soldiers whose main weapon is an assault rifle may also carry a pistol as a side arm.
==Military==
Such weapons are usually equipped with less firepower or force projection power than the primary weapon. The use of ancillary weapons most frequently occurs when the primary weapon becomes inoperable or ineffective due to running out of ammunition or an ammunition jam or when a firefight turns into close quarters combat. Some other items of military equipment not primarily intended as weapons have been used as improvised ancillary weapons in close quarters combat, including utility knives or entrenching shovels. During World War I, the entrenching shovel was also pressed into service as a melee weapon. In the close confines of a trench, rifles and fixed bayonets were often too long for effective use, and entrenching tools were often used as auxiliary arms for close-quarter fighting.〔Beith, Ian H. (Capt.), ''Modern Battle Tactics: Address Delivered April 9, 1917'', National Service (June 1917), pp. 325, 328〕 From 1915, soldiers on both sides routinely sharpened the edges of entrenching shovels for use as weapons. In WW II, entrenching shovels were used in the brutal hand-to-hand fighting during the Battle of Stalingrad.
Many modern military vehicles, airplanes, and weapons are equipped with ancillary weapons, including tanks (a large cannon is the main weapon, but the tank also has a heavy machine gun as an ancillary weapon), jet fighters (air-to-air missiles and/or bombs are the main armament, but most fighters also have a autocannon as an ancillary weapon), bombers (a World War II-era B-17 Flying Fortress' main armament was up to of bombs, but it also had up to thirteen machine guns as ancillary weapons, for defense against enemy fighter planes) and even assault rifles (the bayonet is the ancillary weapon; as well, even the wooden rifle butt can be used as an improvised, last resort weapon).
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