Additionally, as responsibility for the design of aircraft had been moved out of single service hands and given to the Ministry of Munitions, some of the problems of inter-service competition were avoided.

* Munitions designed to combine penetration, blast or fragmentation effects with an additional incendiary effect, such as armour-piercing projectiles, fragmentation shells, explosive bombs and similar combined-effects munitions in which the incendiary effect is not specifically designed to cause burn injury to persons, but to be used against military objectives, such as armoured vehicles, aircraft and installations or facilities.

* The Japanese government sets up a Ministry of Munitions to expedite the production of aircraft and to unify and simplify the production of military goods and raw materials.

In aircraft carriers, the magazines are required to store not only the aircraft carrier's own defensive weapons, but all of the weapons for her warplanes, including rapid-fire gun ammunition, air-to-air missiles such as the Sidewinder missile, air-to-surface missiles such as the Maverick missile, Mk 46 ASW torpedoes, Joint Direct Attack Munitions, " dumb bombs ", HARM missiles, and antiship missiles such as the Harpoon missile and the Exocet missile.

Munitions, aircraft, and tank components were manufactured during the Second World War.

Formed on December 15, 1916, when the Imperial Munitions Board bought the Curtiss ( Canada ) aircraft operation in Toronto ( opened in 1916 as Toronto Curtiss Aeroplanes ), Canadian Aeroplanes Ltd. manufactured the JN-4 ( Can ) Canuck, the Felixstowe F5L flying boat, and the Avro 504.

The Wasp grew out of the 1975 WAAM ( Wide-Area Anti-Armour Munitions ) program initiated by the US Air Force in order to develop a series of new air-to-ground anti-armour weapons for close-support aircraft.

The President could designate " from time to time " the Secretaries of other executive departments and the Chairmen of the Munitions Board and the Research and Development Board to attend meetings.

Coming into office with World War II breaking out in Europe, Secretary of War Henry L. Stimson faced with the situation of the War Department spread through the overcrowded Munitions Building and numerous other buildings across Washington, D. C., and suburban Maryland and Virginia.

Several other buildings of note were either damaged or destroyed, including the British, French, Italian and Japanese embassies, Charlottenburg Palace and Berlin Zoo, as were the Ministry of Munitions, the Waffen SS Administrative College, the barracks of the Imperial Guard at Spandau and several arms factories.

When Gruban contacted Booth, Booth told him that he could do " more for company than any man in England ", claiming that David Lloyd George ( at the time Minister of Munitions ) and many other important government officials were close friends.

Supplies and factories in British Commonwealth countries, particularly Canada, were reorganised under the Imperial Munitions Board, in order to supply adequate shells and other materiels for the remainder of the war.

The ACME Whistle Company ( based at Mills Munitions Factory ) first began to mass produce pea whistles in the 1870s for the Metropolitan Police Service.

A display of the Killen Strait tractor before the Ministry of Munitions and others in mid 1915 led to an Army specification for a fighting machine based on Swinton's earlier memorandum.

The 420th Munitions Squadron and the 420th Air Base Squadron then became part of the 422 Air Base Group at Croughton ( which itself is part of the 501st Combat Support Wing based at RAF Alconbury ).

A joint venture agreement was signed in Abu Dhabi on November 28, 2007 between Tawazun Holding LLC, an investment company established by the Offset Program Bureau ( OPB ), Al Jaber Trading Establishment, part of Al Jaber Group, and Rheinmetall Munitions Systems, to set up the Al Burkan munition factory at the Zayed Military City in Abu Dhabi.

* Convention on Cluster Munitions, signed 2008, entered into force 2010

The fact that newly appointed Minister of Munitions ( and future prime minister ) David Lloyd George was supposed to accompany Kitchener on the fatal journey, but cancelled at the last moment, has been given significance by some.

Cluster munitions are prohibited for those nations that ratify the Convention on Cluster Munitions, adopted in Dublin, Ireland in May 2008.

In 1944, an Advisory Committee on Aircraft Manufacture was established by the Canadian government, the Canadian Director of Aircraft Production wrote to Minister of Munitions and Supply C. D.

The head of the German Army's Ballistics and Munitions Branch, Lieutenant Colonel Karl Emil Becker, gathered a small team of engineers that included Walter Dornberger and Leo Zanssen, to figure out how to use rockets as long-range artillery in order to get around the Treaty of Versailles ' ban on research and development of long-range cannons.

The Armament Division, redesignated Munitions Systems Division on 15 March 1989, placed into production the precision-guided munitions for the laser, television, and infrared guided bombs ; two anti-armor weapon systems ; and an improved hard target weapon, the GBU-28, used in Operation Desert Storm during the Persian Gulf War.

This was preceded by the activation of the 60th Munitions Maintenance Squadron on 1 December 1960, followed by 4136th Armament & Electronics Maintenance Squadron, 4136th Field Maintenance Squadron, and 4136th Organizational Maintenance Squadron 1 March 1961, with the 4136th Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron being added in November 1962.

Unit Designations Assigned at Minot on 25 June 1968 were the 5th Bombardment Wing and 23rd Bombardment Squadron, 5th Airborne Missile Maintenance Squadron, 5th Armament & Electronics Maintenance Squadron ( later redesignated as the 5th Avionics Maintenance Squadron ), 5th Field Maintenance Squadron, 5th Organizational Maintenance Squadron & the 5th Munitions Maintenance Squadron.

* 2008 Convention on Cluster Munitions, entered into force on 1 August 2010.

* Convention on Cluster Munitions, is an international treaty that prohibits the use of cluster bombs, a type of explosive weapon which scatters submunitions (" bomblets ") over an area.

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The most important of these had a delegate from each state, which meant that Bartlett served on all of them, including those of Safety, Secrecy, Munitions, Marine, and Civil Government.

The evening before Al-Sistani arrived in the city, two F-16's, flying out of Balad, dropped four two-thousand pound JDAMs ( Joint Direct Attack Munitions ) on two hotels in close proximity to the Imam Ali Shrine.

Because it was particularly heavily affected by cluster bombs during this war, Laos was a strong advocate of the Convention on Cluster Munitions to ban the weapons and assist victims, and hosted the First Meeting of States Parties to the convention in November 2010.

The post was abolished by Hore-Belisha, the Secretary of State for War, as he perceived it to be a block on production, transferring tank development responsibility to the Director General of Munitions Development.

Munitions personnel from the 160th Fighter Squadron, 187th Fighter Wing, Alabama Air National Guard, assigned to the 410th Air Expeditionary Wing at a forward deployed location work on guided munitions on the pylon of one of their F-16C Fighting Falcons.

The export of defense-related articles and services on the United States Munitions List ( USML ) is governed by the Department of State under the International Traffic in Arms Regulations ( ITAR ).

The ICBL is a member of the Steering Committee of the Cluster Munition Coalition and works closely with the Cluster Munition Coalition to move along the universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

The ICBL is a member of the Steering Committee of the Cluster Munition Coalition and works closely with the Cluster Munition Coalition to move along the universalization of the Convention on Cluster Munitions.

In August 1939, Secretary of War Harry H. Woodring and Acting Chief of Staff of the Army George C. Marshall moved their offices into the Munitions Building, a temporary structure built on the National Mall during World War I.

Bartlett co-sponsored the Cluster Munitions ( Prohibition ) Bill 2006, which was introduced into the Senate on 5 December 2006.

Questions arising as to the company's abililty to manage the project led to the Government's expropriation of the plant on 4 November 1942 and the setting up of the Crown Corporation, Victory Aircraft Limited, incorporated under the Department of Munitions and Supply Act, 1940 c. 31.

By 1914 the company's small manufacturing plant was well established and it was not long before the vigorous Ministry of Munitions of those days began calling for training equipment, which was needed almost as desperately as the munitions.

The existing houses had all been built for employees of the Leaside Munitions Company by the company.

Furthermore, the Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1937 were repealed, American citizens and ships were barred from entering war zones designated by the President, and the National Munitions Control Board ( which had been created by the 1935 Neutrality Act ) was charged with issuing licenses for all arms imports and exports.

He was president of the Clyde Workers ' Committee, an organisation that had been formed to organise Clydeside workers and, in particular, to campaign against the Munitions Act, which forbade engineers from leaving the works where they were employed.

The CWC led the campaign against the Liberal government of David Lloyd George and their Munitions Act, which forbade engineers from leaving the company they were employed in.

Munitions factories were placed under the direct control of the military.

In 1923 the Hanyang Munitions Works began making a copy of the Mauser C. 96, the result was the Hanyang C96, about 13, 000 copies were produced, it is sometimes described as the " fancier " of the two Chinese copies.

The whistles that were first adopted by referees were made by Joseph Hudson at Mills Munitions in Birmingham, England.

The Canadian Army Engineering Design Branch through the Canadian government's Department of Munitions and Supply were asked to build a vehicle similar to the M7 on the Ram tank chassis.

His contributions were recognized by Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox, and he served on the Army-Navy Munitions Board and the Naval Reserve Policy Board.

This kept AJS busy until Ministry of Munitions restrictions were lifted in January 1919.

The founding teams were the Montreal Nationals, Montreal Victorias, Ottawa St. Patrick's, Ottawa Munitions, Quebec Sons of Ireland and Trois Rivieres.

During World War I the British Shell Crisis of 1915 and the appointment of David Lloyd George as Minister of Munitions was a recognition that the whole economy would have to be geared for war if the Allies were to prevail on the Western Front.

* Munitions and explosives of concern, explosives that did not explode when they were employed

35 workers ( all women aged 14 or over ) were killed in the Barnbow Munitions Factory, which later became ROF Barnbow.