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The strike will likely disrupt strike operations from the airfield and force Russia to replenish munitions stock and Russian aircraft would have been dispersed to surrounding airfields in response, the ministry added.—Paul Du Quenoy, MSNBC Newsweek, 28 Mar. 2025 That’s because, in the early 2000s, the Kyiv Arsenal Central Design Bureau developed a new seeker head for the R-73 during a period when Russian and Ukrainian industry routinely cooperated on munitions production.—David Axe, Forbes, 22 Mar. 2025 The Trump administration’s broad cuts to the U.S. Agency for International Development also halted efforts to clear unexploded American munitions and landmines, a rehabilitation program for war victims, and work on a museum exhibit detailing U.S. efforts to remediate the damage of the Vietnam War.—David Rising and Aniruddha Ghosal, Los Angeles Times, 20 Mar. 2025 Hindustan Aeronautics, which makes fighter jets for the country, rose as much as 2.38% and is on pace for a fifth straight day of gains, while munitions manufacturer Bharat Dynamics climbed as much as 5.67%.—Lee Ying Shan, CNBC, 20 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for munition
Word History
Etymology
Middle French, from Latin munition-, munitio, from munire to fortify, from moenia walls; akin to Latin murus wall and perhaps to Sanskrit minoti he builds, fastens
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