After a seesaw battle, the rebels retained control late in the day, said a rebel spokesman, who also confirmed reports that ordnance fired by Colonel Qaddafi's forces had landed in Tunisian territory, prompting a protest by the Tunisian authorities.
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".
In World War II, Dr. Goldstine was an ordnance mathematician calculating artillery firing tables.
Who are the men firing ordnance into this city?
Attack helicopters and aircraft are also less likely to fire ordnance the closer the firing position is to the border, they said, even if it is on the Afghan side.
NEW YORK, 24 November 2004 – UNICEF will join hundreds of international organizations, global leaders and individuals to demand a ban on landmines at the Nairobi Summit on a Mine-Free World from November 29 to December 3. Thousands of children all over the world are being killed, injured and orphaned by landmines and unexploded ordnance discarded or fired by combatants.
He said the vast majority of American and allied operations were no longer direct combat, but focused instead on three areas: dropping bombs and firing rockets, mortars and other ordnance at the enemy; engineering tasks, especially bomb-disposal and road-clearing operations; and medical evacuation.
Osh Polygon will consist of a secure garrison compound with officers' quarters and barracks for enlisted personnel, plus range facilities, firing pistols, rifles, crew-served weapons and explosive ordnance, according to the pre-solicitation notice posted last month.
And neither Obama nor the unsinkable turd that is John McCain have done any hard calculation of the actual consequences of another US intervention in the Middle East; both have taken the position that we should fire some ordnance in the vicinity of the offending weaponry, whistle Maytime, and hope for the best.
Shorter than traditional infantry rifles and firing a cartridge midway between the power of a pistol and the standard rifle cartridges of the day, the Kalashnikov line was initially dismissed by American ordnance experts as a weapon of small consequence.
He does not know what kind of ordnance or ammunition the helicopter fired.
