ordnance
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An Explosive Ordnance Disposal team arrived from Catterick Garrison and confirmed it was indeed a bomb from World War Two but, thinking it was an isolated find, renovations resumed the next day.
From BBC • Aug. 15, 2025
These bombers can carry the 30,000-pound GBU-57 “Massive Ordnance Penetrator” bunker buster, a weapon experts say is uniquely designed to penetrate underground nuclear facilities like Iran’s Fordow site.
From Salon • Jun. 21, 2025
They're known as MOP – the precision-guided 30,000lb Massive Ordnance Penetrator.
From BBC • Jun. 16, 2025
Only the U.S. has the weapons that can do this—the 30,000-pound Massive Ordnance Penetrator, carried by a B-2 bomber.
From Slate • Jun. 16, 2025
Last summer on sunny days I cycled as far as Ordnance Survey Map 150'd let me.
From "Black Swan Green" by David Mitchell
Vocabulary lists containing ordnance
The Things They Carried
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Life of Pi
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