Sentence examples for ordnance air from inspiring English sources

The weapon is officially called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast, but the initials have also been used to refer to it as the Mother of All Bombs.

There are few places where the GBU-43 Massive Ordnance Air Blast, as the bomb is officially known, can be used, because of the breadth of its impact and the danger it poses to civilians.

The news from Raqqa last week coincided with the detonation of a twenty-one-thousand-pound Massive Ordnance Air Blast bomb in a remote, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan.

"The weapon is officially called the Massive Ordnance Air Blast," Thom Shanker reported in The New York Times, "but the initials have already been recast to name it the 'Mother of All Bombs".' It is known by the acronym formed by its initials: MOAB.

As an example of the seriousness with which the military command views Tikrit, the Air Force was set to attack Iraqi positions in Tikrit with the largest conventional bomb in the American arsenal, the 21,000-pound MOAB, officially known as the Massive Ordnance Air Blast.

The GBU-43/B Massive Ordnance Air Blast Bomb (MOAB), known as "the mother of all bombs", is the largest non-nuclear bomb ever used by the US in a conflict.

"We ended up having to use some larger ordnance out of our Air Force to reduce some of the buildings around here".

Secretary of Defense Donald H. Rumsfeld said in Washington today that he had no information about the men "who may have been killed" or whether their deaths were caused by "ordnance fired from the air or ordnance that we've seen fired from the ground on television".

About 60percentt of the 18,000 bombs, missiles and other ordnance used since the air campaign began on Oct. 7 were precision-guided, up from fewer than 10percentt of munitions in the Persian Gulf war, military officials said.

The Syrian Air Force's introduction of these weapons raises an obvious question: Why? Syria's military aircraft have been documented dropping several types and weights of well-known Russian-made air-delivered ordnance, including unguided free-fall bombs and Soviet-era canisters containing cluster bombs.

The twin-engined Hornet is armed with a 20 mm cannon and can carry short- and medium-range air-to-air missiles and a variety of guided and unguided air-to-surface ordnance.