Munition in a sentence

The line includes a range of precise munition, loitering munition, defense and assault systems, and more.

After the munition is dropped or fired, the first explosive charge bursts open the container at a predetermined height and disperses the fuel in a cloud that mixes with atmospheric oxygen (the size of the cloud varies with the size of the munition).

A State Department spokesperson declined to comment on any potential economic boost that North Korea is seeing from munition sales to Russia, but said the US remained concerned that Pyongyang will deliver more military equipment to the Wagner Group.

Nigerian authorities should investigate any possible use of cluster munitions in the past to determine if any areas need to be cleared of cluster munition remnants and determine if assistance is needed for victims of the weapons.

Scattered submunitions often strike shepherds and scrap metal collectors, a common post-conflict source of livelihood, said Loren Persi, one of the editors of the Cluster Munition Coalition’s annual report.

She shared her father’s experiences as a surgeon treating victims of cluster munition accidents, including a young girl from her school.

Since then, some commentators have suggested that the lack of a large crater could be explained by the use of an "air burst" munition - a weapon set to explode above the ground.

The primary new feature of this loitering munition was its longer six hour flight endurance.

US leaders have said the country will send a version of the munition that has a reduced “dud rate,” meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode.

U.S. leaders have said the transfer involves a version of the munition that has a reduced "dud rate," meaning fewer of the smaller bomblets fail to explode.

As part of an unprecedented effort to map and better understand the history of ocean dumping in the region, scientists have found a multitude of discarded munition boxes, smoke floats and depth charges lurking 3,000 feet underwater.

In terms of fighter jets that can carry the munition, the F-35 Lighting IIF-16C/J Fighting Falcon can fire it for the Air Force and the F/A-18C/D Hornet, F/A-19E/F Super Hornet, and can handle it for the Navy and Marine Corps.

It was unclear who fired the munition that struck their home in the southern city of Rafah, although Gaza authorities and The Associated Press reported Israeli airstrikes in the area at the time.

That wasn’t the end of it, either, as two hours after the Israeli tanks left, they fired an unidentified smoke munition just north of the UN position.

The boy had gone to the beach on Tuesday (May 28) to wash with a group of children and a munition landed as they came out, hitting him with shrapnel, she said.

The government has acquired the loitering munition Switchblade 300 for an undisclosed amount and they’ll be in service from late 2024 “as a way of deterring potential aggressors”.

The halt to US munition shipment appears to be the first since the United States gave full support to Israel after Hamas’ 7 October attack, where 1,200 people were killed and about 250 abducted.

They see the U.S. military short thousands of recruits, its leadership politicized, its munition stocks depleted by arms shipments to Ukraine and Israel, and the massive abandonment of weapons in Kabul.

Those first-generation cluster munition versions could fly about 100 miles.

Ukraine’s munition stocks are desperately low, and Russia has more and better-armed troops.