Ordnance - 2 reference results
Ordnance may refer to:
Military
- Ordnance, the design, testing, manufacture, arming, controlling, maintenance and disposal of weapons and munitions.
- Bureau of Ordnance, the U.S. Navy's organization responsible for the procurement, storage, and deployment of all naval ordnance
- Explosive Ordnance Disposal Badge, a military badge of the United States Armed Forces
- Naval Ordnance Laboratory, a former United States military research laboratory
- Ordnance Corps (United States Army), a combat service support branch of the United States Army
- Royal Army Ordnance Corps (RAOC), a former corps of the British Army
- Royal Ordnance, a British public corporation that manufactured explosives, ammunition, and small arms
- Royal Ordnance Factory, the collective name of the UK government's munitions factories in and after World War II
- United States Army Ordnance Museum, a museum at Aberdeen Proving Ground, in Aberdeen, Maryland
- Weapon
- Ammunition
- Ordnance disposal, the process by which hazardous devices are rendered safe
- Para-Ordnance, a firearms manufacturer in Toronto, Canada
- Unexploded ordnance, are explosive munitions that did not explode when they were used, and still pose a risk of detonation
Surveying
- Ordnance Datum, a vertical datum used by an ordnance survey as the basis for deriving altitudes on maps
- Ordnance Survey, a British government organization that makes and sells maps
- Ordnance Survey Ireland, the mapping agency in the Republic of Ireland
Places
- Ordnance Island, Bermuda, an island, formerly a Royal Army Ordnance Corps depot, within the limits of St. George's town, Bermuda
- USN Submarine Base, Ordnance Island, Bermuda, a U.S. Navy base during the Second World War
- Ordnance, Oregon, a former community near the Umatilla Chemical Depot
Others
- Board of Ordnance, a British government body created in the 15th century
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