Sentence examples for ordnance weapons from inspiring English sources

Other explosive remnants of war include unexploded ordnance – weapons such as grenades and cluster bombs that did not explode on impact but can still detonate – and weapons that are discarded in civilian areas by combatants, known as abandoned ordnance.

In the detached parlance of military planners, they are also sometimes referred to as area weapons — ordnance with effects that cover a sprawling amount of ground.

Often when wars or conflicts come to an end, landmines, abandoned ordnance and unexploded weapons like cluster bombs and grenades are often left behind.

Awareness saves children's lives When conflict comes to an end, combatants often leave behind landmines, abandoned ordnance and unexploded weapons like cluster bombs and grenades.

The collapse of the Soviet Union left Ukraine with vast caches of weapons and ordnance.

The weapons and ordnance — poorly secured, unsecured or already smuggled out of the country — were among the many confounding inheritances of Libya's new authorities, who have yet to coalesce into a central government.

The new bombers were acquired partly for their capacity to deliver nuclear weapons, an ordnance option the RAAF seriously investigated but never implemented.

In the end the Tropic Moon III proved to be a capable system, both with conventional ordnance and laser guided weapons, day and night.

It had been procured partly for its capacity to deliver nuclear weapons, an ordnance option the government seriously contemplated but never acquired.

Generals are sometimes slow to get around to developing plans and ordnance for those new weapon systems and battlefields.

Impressed with the weapon, the Ordnance Board of the Small Arms School had the faults with the ammunition corrected, renamed the Shoulder Gun as the Projector, Infantry, Anti Tank, and ordered that it be issued to infantry units as a hand-held anti-tank weapon.