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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Armament \Ar"ma*ment\, noun [L. armamenta, pl., utensils, esp. the tackle of a ship, fr. armare to arm: cf. LL. armamentum, F. armement.]
1. A body of forces equipped for war; -- used of a land or naval force. ''The whole united armament of Greece.'' --Glover.
2. (Mil. & Nav.) All the cannon and small arms collectively, with their equipments, belonging to a ship or a fortification.
3. Any equipment for resistance.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
armament
noun
1: weaponry used by military or naval force
2: the act of equiping with weapons in preparation for war [syn: {arming}, {equipping}] [ant: {disarming}, {disarming}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
84 Moby Thesaurus words for "armament": A-weapons, accouterment, accouterments, aegis, apparatus, appliances, appointments, appurtenances, armor, arms, biological weapons, catering, chandlery, conveniences, conventional weapons, deadly weapons, duffel, endowment, equipage, equipment, facilities, facility, finding, fitting out, fittings, fixtures, furnishing, furnishings, furnishment, furniture, gear, guard, impedimenta, installations, instruments of destruction, investment, kit, logistics, machinery, materiel, missilery, munition, munitions, musketry, nuclear weapons, ordnance, outfit, outfitting, paraphernalia, plant, plumbing, preparation, procurement, protection, providing, provision, provisioning, purveyance, reinforcement, replenishment, resupply, retailing, rig, rigging, safeguard, security, selling, shield, side arms, small arms, stock-in-trade, subsidization, subsidy, subvention, supply, supplying, tackle, thermonuclear weapons, things, utensils, victualing, ward, weaponry, weapons
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