An arsenal is a place where arms and ammunition are made, maintained and repaired, stored, or issued, in any combination, whether privately or publicly owned. Arsenal and armoury (British English) or armory (American English)[1][2] are mostly regarded as synonyms, although subtle differences in usage exist.
A sub-armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition, such as any temporary post or patrol vehicle that is only operational in certain times of the day.[3]
The term in English entered the language in the 16th century as a loanword from French: arsenal, itself deriving from the Italian: arsenale, which in turn is thought to be a corruption of Arabic: دار الصناعة, dār aṣ-ṣināʿa, meaning "manufacturing shop".[4][5][6][7][8][9]
Types
A lower-class arsenal, which can furnish the materiel and equipment of a small army, may contain a laboratory, gun and carriage factories, small-arms ammunition, small-arms, harness, saddlery tent and powder factories; in addition, it must possess great storehouses. In a second-class arsenal, the factories would be replaced by workshops. The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategic considerations. If of the first class, it should be situated at the base of operations and supply, secure from attack, not too near a frontier, and placed so as to draw in readily the resources of the country. The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defences would be on the scale of those of a large fortress.
In the early 21st century, the term "floating armoury" described a ship storing weapons to be supplied to merchant vessels in international waters subject to piracy, so that the weapons do not enter territorial waters where they would be illegal.
Operational subdivision
The branches in a great arsenal are usually subdivided into storekeeping, construction and administration:
Under storekeeping the arsenal should have the following departments and stores: Departments of issue and receipt, pattern room, armoury department, ordnance or park, harness, saddlery and accoutrements, camp equipment, tools and instruments, engineer store, timber yard, breaking-up store, and unserviceable store.
Under construction: Gun factory, carriage factory, laboratory, small arms factory, harness and tent factory, gunpowder factory, etc. In a second-class arsenal there would be workshops instead of factories.
Under the head of administration would be classed the chief director of the arsenal, officials military and civil, non-commissioned officers and military artificers, civilian foremen, workmen and laborers, with the clerks and writers necessary for the office work of the establishments.[10]
In the manufacturing branches are required skill, and efficient and economical work, both executive and administrative; in the storekeeping part, good arrangement, great care, thorough knowledge of all warlike stores, both in their active and passive state, and scrupulous exactness in the custody, issue and receipt of stores. Frederick Taylor introduced command and control techniques to arsenals, including the U.S.'s Watertown Arsenal (a principal center for artillery design and manufacture) and Frankford Arsenal (a principal center for small arms ammunition design and manufacture).[10]
^Soanes, Catherine and Stevenson, Angus (ed.) (2005). Oxford Dictionary of English, 2nd Ed., revised, Oxford University Press, Oxford, New York, p. 85. ISBN978-0-19-861057-1.
^"Arsenal – Definition and More from the Free Merriam-Webster Dictionary". Merriam-Webster.
^ ab One or more of the preceding sentences incorporates text from this source, which is in the public domain: Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). "Arsenal" . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 02 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. pp. 650 to 651.
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United States A sub armory is a place of temporary storage or carrying of weapons and ammunition such as any temporary post or patrol vehicle that is only operational in certain times of the day 3 Contents 1 Etymology 2 Types 3 Operational subdivision 4 See also 5 References 6 External linksEtymology EditThe term in English entered the language in the 16th century as a loanword from French arsenal itself deriving from the Italian arsenale which in turn is thought to be a corruption of Arabic دار الصناعة dar aṣ ṣinaʿa meaning manufacturing shop 4 5 6 7 8 9 Types EditA lower class arsenal which can furnish the materiel and equipment of a small army may contain a laboratory gun and carriage factories small arms ammunition small arms harness saddlery tent and powder factories in addition it must possess great storehouses In a second class arsenal the factories would be replaced by workshops The situation of an arsenal should be governed by strategic considerations If of the first class it should be situated at the base of operations and supply secure from attack not too near a frontier and placed so as to draw in readily the resources of the country The importance of a large arsenal is such that its defences would be on the scale of those of a large fortress In the early 21st century the term floating armoury described a ship storing weapons to be supplied to merchant vessels in international waters subject to piracy so that the weapons do not enter territorial waters where they would be illegal Operational subdivision EditThe branches in a great arsenal are usually subdivided into storekeeping construction and administration Under storekeeping the arsenal should have the following departments and stores Departments of issue and receipt pattern room armoury department ordnance or park harness saddlery and accoutrements camp equipment tools and instruments engineer store timber yard breaking up store and unserviceable store Under construction Gun factory carriage factory laboratory small arms factory harness and tent factory gunpowder factory etc In a second class arsenal there would be workshops instead of factories Under the head of administration would be classed the chief director of the arsenal officials military and civil non commissioned officers and military artificers civilian foremen workmen and laborers with the clerks and writers necessary for the office work of the establishments 10 In the manufacturing branches are required skill and efficient and economical work both executive and administrative in the storekeeping part good arrangement great care thorough knowledge of all warlike stores both in their active and passive state and scrupulous exactness in the custody issue and receipt of stores Frederick Taylor introduced command and control techniques to arsenals including the U S s Watertown Arsenal a principal center for artillery design and manufacture and Frankford Arsenal a principal center for small arms ammunition design and manufacture 10 See also EditArmorer Arsenal Academy Arsenal Mainz Dresden Armory Eddystone Arsenal Frankford Arsenal Halifax Armoury Harpers Ferry Armory Imperial Arsenal Ottoman Empire Kremlin Armoury Magazine artillery Naval Group France Picatinny Arsenal Pine Bluff Arsenal Rock Island Arsenal Royal Arsenal UK Royal Armouries UK Spandau Arsenal Springfield Armory Venetian Arsenal Watertown Arsenal Watervliet Arsenal Zeughaus Berlin References Edit Soanes Catherine and Stevenson Angus ed 2005 Oxford Dictionary of English 2nd Ed revised Oxford University Press Oxford New York p 85 ISBN 978 0 19 861057 1 The English barrister and heraldist Arthur Charles Fox Davies meant that the spelling without a u was never used for weapons but only used for armory in the meaning of the science of coats of arms which is a part of heraldry in his book The Art of Heraldry An Encyclopaedia of Armory 1904 p 1 Firearms Idaho Department of Correction 2010 p 2 retrieved 2014 06 12 Definition of arsenal 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