How should Ezekiel's weapon descriptions be understood in modern terms?

Ezekiel’s weapon descriptions should be understood as written in the language of his own day, but expressed in modern terms they correspond to artillery, tanks, trucks, armored personnel carriers, and weapons of war. The passage depicts burning these implements after a great destruction.

Les explains that Ezekiel wrote in the language of his day, so the ancient terms for weapons should be translated into modern military equivalents. In our present time, he would have had to say artillery, tanks, trucks, armored personnel carriers, and weapons of war. This comes in the context of the great invasion from the North and the destruction of the armies of Israel, after which these implements are burned. Les also notes that this passage is used in arguments about whether the invasion must occur before the tribulation because of a seven-year element.

Ezekiel 39:9

And they that dwell in the cities of Israel shall go forth, and shall set on fire and burn the weapons, both the shields and the bucklers, the bows and the arrows, and the handstaves, and the spears, and they shall burn them with fire seven years:

What modern military equipment is described in Ezekiel's prophecy about the northern invasion?

In the northern invasion prophecy of Ezekiel 39, the modern military equipment described would be artillery, tanks, trucks, armored personnel carriers, and weapons of war. Ezekiel wrote in the language of his day, but in present time the same equipment would be named with those terms.