Armament vs. Ordnance — What's the Difference?

The weapons and supplies of war with which a military unit is equipped.

Military materiel, such as weapons, ammunition, combat vehicles, and equipment.

Often armaments All the military forces and war equipment of a country.

The branch of an armed force that procures, maintains, and issues weapons, ammunition, and combat vehicles.

A military force equipped for war.

Cannon; artillery.

The process of arming for war.

Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.

A body of forces equipped for war.

Artillery.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Heavy weapons of warfare; cannon, or great guns, mortars, and howitzers; artillery; sometimes, a general term for all weapons, ammunitiion, and appliances used in war.

Any equipment for resistance.

Military supplies

The process of building up military capacity.

Large but transportable armament

A body of forces equipped for war; - used of a land or naval force.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Any equipment for resistance.

Weaponry used by military or naval force

The act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war