During the Restoration, the generals largely adopted the scimitar with an ivory hilt, after the Neapolitan fashion took from Egypt; if not so equipped, they had bent swords with embroidered sheath, whereas after 1830 the mounted Body Guards adopted a sword similar to the Napoleonic sword for dragons, called “sabre de bataille”. Other officers got different types of straight swords.

	As everybody knows, Ferdinand II paid great attention to the military world. After establishing two new cavalry regiments equipped with one lance and two guns, in the ‘40s he updated the firearms and at the same time the Navy executive equipped the Corp of Navy Gunners with a new weapon. The Hunters battalions were given a more precise 32' rifle, a “deadly weapon in the hands of expert soldiers”, that was first used in battle in 1849 during the campaign against the Roman Republic . That same years, a new cavalry regiment was established, the mounted Hunters regiment, equipped with a new 38' percussion rifle, guns and a slightly bent sabre.

Other firearms were introduced in the last years of the Kingdom until 1860, whereas infantry officers changed their model of sabre and adopted the 1845 French model (other corps used previous models). However, weapon imports from abroad were never stopped in a definitive way. .

Heavy Artillery

After 1846, regularly used guns were:
33 and 24 shore guns; 24, 16 and 3, 3½ and 4 English inches guns; 2, 2½ rockets, 12 and 6 field guns; 32, 24 and 22 carronades; 30 carronade gun; Paixhans-like 8 howitzers for coast and navy corps; 117 and 60 howitzer guns for the navy; 8 howitzers for sieges; 6 and 5-6-2 howitzers for mountain batteries; 12 and 8 mortars; 13 petraries; 3, 3½ and 4 English inches rockets; 2, 2½, 2½ field rockets

80, 117 and 60 howitzers, carronades, coast and navy guns were made of melted iron, the other guns were of bronze in an alloy of copper and tin (100 to 11). Rockets had a range exceeding 2000 toises (1 toise = about 1,94 metres), superior to that of cannons.