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[[File:Drawing of FA-18E Super Hornet with armaments 1997.png|right|thumb|US Navy [[Boeing F/A-18E/F Super Hornet]] [[multirole combat aircraft]] illustrating its array of weapons-type capabilities; ''All Hands'' magazine of the US Navy 1997]]
[[File:B-52H static display arms 06.jpg|right|thumb|[[Boeing B-52 Stratofortress|B-52H Stratofortress]] subsonic [[strategic bomber]] displaying its weapons array, 2006]]
'''Aircraft ordnance''' or '''ordnance''' (in the context of [[military aviation]]) is any expendable weaponry (e.g. [[aerial bomb|bombs]], [[guided missile|missiles]], [[rocket (weapon)|rockets]] and [[gun]] [[ammunition]]) used by [[military aircraft]]. The term is often used when describing the [[payload]] of [[air-to-ground weaponry]] that can be carried by the aircraft or the weight that has been dropped in combat. Aircraft ordnance also includes [[air-to-air missile|air-to-air]], [[anti-surface warfare|anti-ship]] and [[anti-submarine warfare|anti-submarine]] weapons.
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">{{cite web|url=http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3228 |title=Factsheets : Fairchild AU-23A |publisher=Nationalmuseum.af.mil |accessdate=2013-11-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140105033728/http://www.nationalmuseum.af.mil/factsheets/factsheet.asp?id=3228 |archivedate=2014-01-05 }}</ref>
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