armament

IPA: ˈɑrmʌmʌnt

A body of forces equipped for war.
(military, naval) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
Any equipment for resistance.
The process of building up military capacity.

Examples of "armament" in Sentences

Again, not knocking it or anybody's taste in armament, just wanting to better understand.
After some resesigning for counterinsurgency warfare and changes in armament, the craft was rechris - tened A-26A.
If more and more irritations are ameliorated by negotiation, the evidence of adequacy in armament becomes cumulative.
The non-governmental sector is just as qualified as the "experts" or those who have a vested interest in armament and war.
Emmanual: While I believe that nuclear armament is the most illogical concept ever devised by mankind, the statement above makes nuclear arms logical.
KELLY: Founder Hendrick Slabbinck kept the company going during World war II, when many Belgian workers were used in German armament factories as forced labor.
Just as the questions relating to disarmament are usually left to military experts and to those with a vested interest in armament, these questions are also usually regarded as the exclusive prerogative of men.
The main armament of a submarine, of course, is her torpedoes, but they are big valuable things of which one may not have more than a dozen or so on board and heaven knows when it will be possible to get back to harbour to replenish them.