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.
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.
Field engineers of the contingent destroyed over 5,000 items of unexploded ordnance (UXO) ranging from artillery shells, through RPG rockets to grenades.
The referendum was an exchange of rhetorical ordnance, as smoothed and uniform as artillery shells.
Neutral Switzerland stockpiled the munitions — artillery shells, hand grenades, ordinary bullets and other ordnance — during the war in the event of an invasion by Nazi Germany or Fascist Italy, which never came about.
One senior Army officer discussed how the service would fulfill its post-war mission in Iraq even as officers analyze issues like whether to restock warehouses in the gulf with the same number of armored vehicles as they would have a decade ago, after the first gulf war, and how quickly spent artillery shells can be replaced with a new generation of precision ordnance.
Unexploded ordnance (UXO) is a term used to denote any kind of explosive weapons, such as bombs, grenades, and artillery shells, that have been used but have not yet exploded - "duds," in other words - and that retain the potential to detonate.
There is footage of a Feller fastball being clocked by Army ordnance equipment (used to measure artillery shell velocity) and registering at 98.6 mph (159 kph).
Officials released a photo of the ordnance and didn't provide any details, but it appeared to be some sort of artillery shell.
Last night the sky was illuminated by the flash of exploding shells and ordnance.
