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In the broadest sense, armaments can be said to include the whole spectrum of equipments and associated hardware in the military inventory and, as such, many have commercial counterparts ranging from the commonplace to the sophisticated. However, armaments are perhaps more commonly recognized as those items specifically identifiable with military usage — guns, ammunition, missiles and armoured vehicles, to name a few.
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Samuels, L.E., Lamborn, I.R. (1978). Failure Analysis of Armament Hardware. In: McCall, J.L., French, P.M. (eds) Metallography in Failure Analysis. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-2856-8_7
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