Ordnance

Ordnance may refer to:

Military and defense

  • Ordnance items in military logistics, including weapons, ammunition, vehicles, and maintenance tools and equipment
    • The military branch responsible for supplying and developing this
  • Artillery, often in the formal name, e.g., Ordnance Survey
  • Artillery shells, specifically unexploded ordnance
  • Aircraft ordnance, weapons carried by and used by an aircraft
  • Ordnance weapon, a personal weapon issued to a member of a military unit

Places

  • Ordnance datum (from use in ballistics), a vertical datum used as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
  • Ordnance Survey, the national mapping agency for Great Britain

See also

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