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[[File:A2F-1 armament NAN9-63.jpg|thumb|[[Grumman A-6 Intruder|A-6]] and ordnance in 1962]]
'''Aircraft ordnance''' or '''ordnance''' (in the context of [[military aviation]]) is weapons (e.g. [[Aerial bomb|bombs]], [[Air-to-surface missile|missiles]], [[Rocket (weapon)|rockets]] and [[gun]] ammunition) used by aircraft. The term is often used when describing the weight of [[air-to-ground weaponry]] that can be carried by an aircraft or the
Some aircraft types can carry a wide variety of ordnance - for example the [[Fairchild AU-23 Peacemaker]] could use forward-firing [[gun pod]]s, 500 and 250 pound bombs, [[napalm]] units, [[Cluster munition|cluster bomb]] units, flares, rockets, smoke grenades and [[Airborne leaflet propaganda|propaganda leaflet dispensers]].<ref name="nationalmuseum.af.mil">http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3228</ref>
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