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unexploded ordnance

lost or discarded explosive devices or material
Class type of: ammunition, explosive weapon, hazard Q2302880

Facts

8 properties
Instance of
weapon type
Subclass of
ammunition, explosive weapon, hazard, waste, lost, mislaid, and abandoned property[2][3][4][5][6]
Facet of
pollution, bomb disposal[9][10]
Short name
UXO[12]
Contributing factor of
accident[11]
Handled, mitigated, or managed by
minesweeping, bomb disposal[14][15]
Has cause
dud, minelaying[7][8]
On focus list of Wikimedia project
concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies[13]
🏷️ Also known as
en ERWs en explosive remnants of war en UXOs en UXO en UXBs en UXB en UOs en UO en unexploded ordnance en unexploded bombs en unexploded bomb en ERW ar الذخائر غير المنفجرة cs nevybuchlá munice da UXO da Forsager da Blindgænger de Kampfmittelaltlasten de explosive Kampfmittelrückstände de Blindgänger
🔖 Identifiers · 14
Library of Congress authority ID
sh2004006602
GND ID
4462894-8
OpenAlex ID
C2775977338
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Fundort Luftmine 06 Koblenz 2011.jpg ↗
BNCF Thesaurus ID
47103
Brockhaus Enzyklopädie online ID
blindgänger
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
topic/unexploded-ordnance
Freebase ID
/m/024jlk
Lex ID
forsager
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
2775977338
Museum-digital tag ID
15254
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007561528305171
Show all 14 identifiers +2
Oxford Reference overview ID
20110803110638328
Yale LUX ID
concept/a0110742-bd97-4327-8515-d0c23cc72a7f

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🔗 Connections
Subclass of 5
waste, ammunition, hazard, lost, mislaid, and abandoned property, explosive weapon
Facet of 2
pollution, bomb disposal
Contributing factor of 1
accident
Handled, mitigated, or managed by 1
bomb disposal
Has cause 1
dud
Subtypes 1
dud
← Field of work 1
Swiss Foundation for Mine Action
← Has effect 1
dud
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Summary

unexploded ordnance is a weapon type[1].

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Class ancestry

  1. [1] ↑ . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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  1. 20w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-06-16 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    On focus list of Wikimedia project → concrete/abstract disjunction anomalies
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/36807|batch #36807]]: tag for concrete/abstract disjunction anomaly"
  2. 22w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Subclass of → —
    Subclass of → ammunition, explosive weapon, hazard +2
    Instance of → weapon type
    Contributing factor of → accident
    + 5 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-update-qualifiers:1||1|3 */ National Library of Israel J9U ID: 987007561528305171, mv to monolingual text names on J9U statements"
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