Are rawket lawnchairs, ATGMs, MANPADs, etc considered small arms or artillery?

Are rawket lawnchairs, ATGMs, MANPADs, etc considered small arms or artillery?

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They are Light Weapons.

Small arms are an individual's main weapon.

Support weapons are man portable machine guns, mortars and rocket launchers

Heavy weapons are the larger versions of the above, usually mounted in a fixed location or a vehicle.

Artillery would be indirect fire weapons that either need a prime mover or are self propelled.

according to the UN

Small arms:
Revolvers and self-loading pistols; Rifles and carbines; Sub-machine-guns; Assault rifles; Light machine-guns

Light weapons:
Heavy machine-guns; Hand-held under-barrel and mounted grenade launchers; Portable anti-aircraft guns; Portable anti-tank guns, recoilless rifles; Portable launchers of anti-tank missile and rocket systems; Portable launchers of anti-aircraft missile systems; Mortars of calibres of less than 100 mm;

Ammunition and explosives:
Cartridges (rounds) for small arms; Shells and missiles for light weapons; Mobile containers with missiles or shells for single-action anti-aircraft and anti-tank systems; Anti-personnel and anti-tank hand grenades; Landmines; Explosives.

The only rockets considered artillery are MRLS systems, basically trucks with a gimballed box of super-accurate long-range “dumb” rockets on the back. Unlike conventional arty, rocket arty has longer range, less drop, much faster salvo rate, and easier to deploy and fire rapidly. The USMC is a particularly avid user of them, practicing rapid deployment/firing/redeployment out of C-130s and firing on targets the F-35 and/or drones pick up and share with the system via sensor fusion.

They're certainly not artillery. They are included in many small definitions of small arms but more often they're in a bit of a separate category.

They are considered destructive devices and you'd better get the proper paperwork.

This is now a rocket launcher thread

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