The phrase "adequate weapons" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used when discussing the sufficiency or appropriateness of weapons for a particular purpose or situation.
Example: "The military assessed that they had adequate weapons to defend the territory against potential threats."
Alternatives: "sufficient arms" or "appropriate weaponry".
But that would be an illusion, not because we have adequate weapons, but because Israel this time would be fighting against a people with nothing to lose.
This army reportedly sends soldiers to combat Boko Haram without adequate weapons, and has had soldiers flee in the face of Boko Haram's assaults.
In case words aren't adequate weapons, sticks and stones have entered the repertoire, in the form of physical confrontation and intimidation in public spaces, or "doxing," the release across the Internet of personal addresses and information.
Rebels have engaged in a siege of the Minnagh airport, near the Turkish border, for 10 months, during which time they had taken large parts of the facility but were unable to seize full control of it, which they have blamed on a lack of adequate weapons.
However, hunting large animals requires adequate weapons, and there is no indication that contemporary hominins possessed these.
The 7.62mm general purpose machine-gun (GPMG) which replaced the Bren was a heavy but adequate weapon, yet survived barely a decade of front-line service before being replaced.
In the most violent provinces, they say, the Iraqis are so intimidated that many are reluctant to show up and do not tell their families where they work; they have yet to receive adequate training or weapons, present a danger to American troops they fight alongside, and are unreliable because of corruption, desertion or infiltration.
However, the Yugoslav troops were not fully mobilised and lacked adequate equipment and weapons.
The walls have gunports for the smaller pieces of artillery and the roof would have supported the heavier bombards, with wide embrasures giving the weapons adequate firing space.
Moreover, the list of standards fails to include equipment that may be especially important in today's missions, like high technology information systems, defenses against chemical and biological weapons and adequate numbers of precision weapons.
(b) It would be thoroughly consistent with our position that we could not tolerate a situation in which we neither had safeguards against the introduction of offensive weapons nor adequate observation to insure that offensive weapons presently in Cuban hands would not be used.
