Ordnance may refer to:
Military and defense
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Materiel in
military logistics
Military logistics is the discipline of planning and carrying out the movement, supply, and maintenance of military forces. In its most comprehensive sense, it is those aspects or military operations that deal with:
* Design, development, acqui ...
, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment.
**The military branch responsible for supplying and developing these items, e.g., the
United States Army Ordnance Corps
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Artillery, often in a formal name, e.g., "
Ordnance Survey".
*Artillery
shells, specifically
unexploded ordnance.
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Aircraft ordnance
Aircraft ordnance or ordnance (in the context of military aviation) is weapons (e.g. bombs, missiles, rockets and gun ammunition) used by aircraft. The term is often used when describing the weight of air-to-ground weaponry that can be carried ...
, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft.
Places
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Ordnance, Oregon, a former community near the
Umatilla Chemical Depot
The Umatilla Chemical Depot, (UMCD) based in Umatilla, Oregon, was a U.S. Army installation in the United States that stored chemical weapons. The chemical weapons originally stored at the depot consisted of various live munitions and storage con ...
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Ordnance Island, formerly a
Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, in
St. George's Town, Bermuda
Maps-related
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Ordnance datum
In the British Isles, an ordnance datum or OD is a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps. A spot height may be expressed as AOD for "above ordnance datum". Usually mean sea level (MSL) is used fo ...
(from use in ballistics), a vertical datum used as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
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Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain
See also
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Ordnance Corps (disambiguation) Ordnance Corps may refer to:
*Royal Australian Army Ordnance Corps, the Corps within the Australian Army concerned with explosives and salvage of battle-damaged equipment
*Royal Canadian Ordnance Corps, an administrative corps of the Canadian Army
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