In 2014, coalition aircraft dropped ordnance during about 2,000 aircraft sorties; that number grew above 9,000 last year.
Precision-guided weapons, which made up over half the ordnance, had about 90percentt accuracy.
The high molecular weights of these residues limited the muzzle velocities of black-powder ordnance to about 2,000 feet (600 metres) per second.
Amid such scenes of anarchy, it was not always clear who was responsible: US soldiers, unnerved by a spate of suicide bombings, who continued yesterday to open fire on civilian cars; the pockets of resistance by the die-hard supporters of the regime; the scores of armed Iraqis rampaging through Baghdad; or the unexploded ordnance strewn about the city.
One report noted that unexploded ordnance had killed about 38,000 people in Indochina since that war ended in 1975.
An estimated 640,000 mines have been laid throughout Afghanistan since 1979, and a lot of unexploded ordnance is scattered about as well; often children will handle or step on these lethal things, which adults know to keep away from.
In any event, I think that it might be the first test for OS's new chair, Sir Rob Margetts, who as you'll recall is required - according to the job advert - to be an experienced Chair who understands how to build commercial opportunities in the public sector and who has the intellect to take forward a challenging debate about Ordnance Survey's future strategy.
The millions of unexploded ordnance (UXO) strewn about in former battlefields and military practice ranges, of which a significant fraction involve marine or underwater environments, constitute a pressing humanitarian and environmental hazard worldwide [1].
The new king was taken to the Tower of London, where he was welcomed with "great shot of ordnance in all places there about, as well out of the Tower as out of the ships".
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