Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryIf only the authorities could be made to realize that the forces leading them on in the armament race are just insane. Alva Myrdal
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
In all my activities as Armament Minister I never once visited a labor camp, and cannot, therefore, give any information about them. Albert Speer
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
If the many, the specialists, gain the day, it will be the end of science as we know it - of great science. It will be a spiritual catastrophe comparable in its consequences to nuclear armament. Karl Popper
All the armament of Sicily won't arm fear. Sicilian Proverb