Definition of Armament

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Armament

A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force.

All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.

Any equipment for resistance.

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Armament Quotations

That is not to say that we can relax our readiness to defend ourselves. Our armament must be adequate to the needs, but our faith is not primarily in these machines of defense but in ourselves.
Chester W. Nimitz

I know that military alliances and armament have been the reliance for peace for centuries, but they do not produce peace; and when war comes, as it inevitably does under such conditions, these armaments and alliances but intensify and broaden the conflict.
Frank B. Kellogg

The very necessity of bringing our armament up to a certain level as rapidly as possible must place in the foreground the idea of as large returns as possible in foreign exchange and therewith the greatest possible assurance of raw material supplies, through exporting.
Hjalmar Schacht

Our priorities require that all children of Palestine, men and women, be ready for conflict, both from the standpoint of training and from the standpoint of armament.
Ahmed Yassin

With the aid of this credit policy, however, Germany created an armament second to none, and this armament in turn made possible the results of our policy.
Hjalmar Schacht

Competition in armament, both land and naval, is not only a terrible burden upon the people, but I believe it to be one of the greatest menaces to the peace of the world.
Frank B. Kellogg

If only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane.
Alva Myrdal

So we are fulfilling our task in preventing serious armament stocks in Iraq within our possibilities.
Bulent Ecevit

In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them.
Albert Speer

Armament Translations

armament in French is armement, armement
armament in Italian is armamento
armament in Spanish is armamento

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