Artillery vs. Ordnance — What's the Difference?

Artillery is a class of heavy military ranged weapons built to launch munitions far beyond the range and power of infantry firearms. Early artillery development focused on the ability to breach defensive walls and fortifications during sieges, and led to heavy, fairly immobile siege engines.

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

Large-caliber weapons, such as cannon, howitzers, and missile launchers, that are operated by crews.

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

The branch of an army that specializes in the use of such weapons.

Cannon; artillery.

The science of the use of guns; gunnery.

Military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.

Weapons, such as catapults, arbalests, and other early devices, used for discharging missiles.

Artillery.

Large projectile weapons, in modern usage usually large guns, but also rocket artillery.

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.

An army unit that uses such weapons, or a military formation using projectile weapons, such as archers.

Military supplies

Gunnery.

Large but transportable armament

Weapons.

Munitions of war; implements for warfare, as slings, bows, and arrows.

Cannon; great guns; ordnance, including guns, mortars, howitzers, etc., with their equipment of carriages, balls, bombs, and shot of all kinds.

The men and officers of that branch of the army to which the care and management of artillery are confided.

The science of artillery or gunnery.

Large but transportable armament

An army unit that uses big guns

A means of persuading or arguing;