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Tomahawk missiles, Patriot system interceptors, 155 munitions, F16’s, and more.—U.s. Sen. Richard Blumenthal, Hartford Courant, 28 Feb. 2026 Each unit costs about $35,000 -- much cheaper than a $30 million Reaper drone and subsequent munitions.—Steven Beynon, ABC News, 28 Feb. 2026 Loitering munition systems are effectively ‘kamikaze’ drones.—Chris Young, Interesting Engineering, 27 Feb. 2026 But unlike cruise missiles, which typically possess an explosive munition (warhead), the X-68A is designed to launch from another aircraft and then launch air-to-air weapons of its own.—Julian Dossett, Space.com, 27 Feb. 2026 See All Example Sentences for munition
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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