Sentence examples for tons of ordnance from inspiring English sources

Farther inside the former base is the once heavily guarded naval magazine area, which was once home to an estimated 50,000 tons of ordnance.

Two million tons of ordnance was dropped on Laos in 580,000 bombing missions, part of a secret operation to cut off supply routes for North Vietnamese forces.

Since the beginning of the war, the press release said, the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing alone had dropped more than five hundred thousand tons of ordnance.

A DIFFICULT LEGACY Between 1964 and 1973, the United States dropped over two million tons of ordnance over Laos, making it the most heavily bombed country per capita in history.

A Pentagon spokesman, Lawrence Di Rita, said Sunday evening that Saddam Hussein's government "stored weapons in mosques, schools, hospitals and countless other locations," and that the allied forces "have discovered and destroyed perhaps thousands of tons of ordnance of all types".

By the end of the siege, U.S Air Force, Marine Corps, and Navy aircraft had dropped 39,179 tons of ordnance in the defense of the base.

The United States celebrates its declaration of independence from England by blowing up tons of ornamental ordnance put together in China, the world's last major Communist power.

Ukraine has at least two million tons of conventional ordnance and seven million excess small-caliber weapons, according to NATO, which has sponsored a program to accelerate their destruction.

A de-mining team run by one of the world's largest humanitarian networks is clearing rebel-controlled Misrata of tons of unexploded ordnance to bring safety to the city's civilians.

In addition to the ethical concerns, poorly managed efforts could destabilise the wreck, resulting in a mass release of the remaining oil; the ship also contains many tons of unexploded ordnance.

Meanwhile, Israeli artillery batteries opened fire on the landing site on the west bank, landing around 70 tons of shells and ordnance.