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Ordnance vs Armament - What's the difference?

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As nouns the difference between ordnance and armament

is that ordnance is military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition while armament is a body of forces equipped for war.

ordnance

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • military equipment, especially weapons and ammunition.
  • artillery.

    • Usage notes

    The British , now a civilian agency, retains its name from its origin as a military topographic survey of Britain during the Napoleonic Wars. This word is often confused with ordinance, which is a law or legal statute.

    Related terms

    * unexploded ordnance

    armament

    English

    (Webster 1913)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A body of forces equipped for war.
  • (military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
  • Any equipment for resistance.
  • The process of building up military capacity.