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The increase is attributed to higher demand for loitering munitions systems.—Quartz Bot, Quartz, 5 Dec. 2024 The loitering munitions systems sales were up a whopping 60% y-o-y in fiscal 2024, while the uncrewed systems revenue were up 30%.—Trefis Team, Forbes, 4 Dec. 2024 In April, the U.S. Army sent a Typhon launcher to northern Luzon in the Philippines for drills, which can launch two types of anti-surface and anti-air munitions, the Tomahawk cruise missile and the Standard Missile 6, with respective ranges of 1,000 and 290 miles.—Yaakov Katz, Newsweek, 28 Nov. 2024 Its munitions are depleted and its military overstretched, even as the insurgency in Gaza appears to be intensifying, however gradually.—Hussein Ibish, The Atlantic, 28 Nov. 2024 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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