munitions

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A munitions shell containing soil from the battlefield.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

The Pentagon publicly puts the direct cost of Operation Epic Fury at roughly $29 billion so far, mostly for munitions and equipment replacement.

From MarketWatch • May 13, 2026

"The munitions issue has been foolishly and unhelpfully overstated," he said.

From Barron's • May 12, 2026

Navy decommissioned its last battleship in 1992, after the military recognized that battleships had become sitting ducks, vulnerable to modern military munitions that could pick off the vessel from the sky.

From Salon • May 8, 2026

She yells at us all the time because Dad is from the North and he never sends money home from England where he is working in a munitions factory.

From "Angela's Ashes: A Memoir" by Frank McCourt