They could also carry stand-off munitions, missiles and bombs.
In the southwest, at least 20 looters were killed when they accidentally set off a munitions bunker guarded by Polish soldiers, Polish military officials said, according to The Associated Press.
But Defense Department officials from nearby Bern, the capital, argued that it would be too dangerous to remove them and too costly, if a method were used that involved blowing the accumulated sediment off the munitions, then freezing them in blocks of ice and lifting them.
And last month, the Obama administration followed up, identifying a number of space technologies that it wants to reclassify and take off the munitions list as part of a "common sense approach to overhauling the nation's export control system".
That threshold-setting approach means many research-related technologies, such as weather satellites and NASA research probes, will fall off the munitions list, says Mark Mulholland, a senior adviser at the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration in Washington, D.C.
The harbour entrance is guarded by Bergenhus fortress, one of Norway's oldest, with the keep and Haakon's Hall dating from the mid-13th century, though the roof of the latter was blown off in a munitions ship explosion in 1944.
Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates have all bought or are buying Western missile- and air-defence and strike systems, including stand-off air-launched munitions.
According to the reports, counter-narcotics police searched it after they had received a tip-off about the munitions on board.
Warplanes, including a pair of F-14's heavily laden with munitions, took off in a fiery thrust of afterburners and then disappeared into the night sky.
The Signoria send off two thousand soldiers with munitions and provisions to the threatened area.
