Sentence examples for for ordnance from inspiring English sources

Gunmetal, also called G Metal, variety of bronze, formerly used for ordnance.

And so, just a few weeks ago, he called Harry Hunter, curator for ordnance at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.

Behind his mild ecological look — his tortoise-shell glasses, his amiable scientific manner — lay a colonel's affection for ordnance.

In the 20th century, the Navy Yard became one of the world's largest centres for ordnance production and engineering research.

Such precision means it is sold as a replacement for ordnance two or more times its size.Bomb-makers are also finding cleverer ways of destroying deeply buried bunkers.

Using standard field techniques for ordnance identification and crater analysis, they established that at least two types of rockets had been used, including an M14 artillery rocket bearing Cyrillic markings and a 330-millimeter rocket of unidentified provenance".

The Douglas A-4 Skyhawk, entering service in 1956, sacrificed speed for ordnance-delivery capability.

Examples include aim-point refinement for ballistic ordnance, terminal guidance for dual-mode missile seekers and laser communications.

That's a lot of ordnance for a place with a population not much greater than Norfolk and Suffolk combined.

They apparently were designed for a narrow role: to be fired at American bases equipped with radar designed to detect incoming mortar or artillery rounds, thereby providing warning to the base and targeting data for the firing point and sometimes for the ordnance in flight.

We moved on, farther and farther into the landscape of a former war, swiveling our eyes up and down as we went up for people and dogs, and down for unexploded ordnance.