Sentence examples for old ordnance from inspiring English sources

In 1999 it was closed to hikers so it could be cleared of old ordnance in the ground.

Every now and then, the local stations run hysterical news stories about old ordnance discovered in someone's home and the presumed danger attached to it.

Chris Ronay, president of the Institute of Makers of Explosives, said he thought Mr. Khan could have gotten tetryl on his belongings only if he had been around old military ordnance, storage areas or places where old ordnance had been detonated.

Old ordnance is found weekly, and the end of Sepon's airstrip is still pockmarked with decades-old craters.

On the old Ordnance Survey a bank is shown parallel to the northern escarpment of the hill.

Fortunately, by this time it had been much established that he'd stepped on a piece of unexploded 50-year old ordnance.

In Washington, an Army official with recent experience in Iraq said insurgents were using a range of explosives, from bulk TNT to a malleable explosive called PE-4 to modified ordnance, like old artillery shells.

(The borrow site is near an old artillery practice range off Sandy Hook, and the dredge sometimes sucks up unexploded ordnance).

Most of the improvised bombs used in the large postwar attacks relied on older military ordnance, like artillery shells and grenades that authorities suspect were taken from stocks belonging to the former Iraqi military.

After studying the old photographs, English ordnance historian Charles Trollope says that the gun was made in the 17th century, possibly around 1670, making it one of the oldest weapons on display in the United States.

To reach the north-westernmost tip of mainland Scotland off-road takes one across a beach, a river, a seven-mile bog and an MoD firing range covered in old and unexploded ordnance.