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Defensive equipment meant to be deployed by a group of soldiers (8)

Ross

I believe the answer is:

armament

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'defensive equipment' is the definition.
'armament' can be an answer for 'equipment' (thesaurus). I'm not certain of the 'defensive' bit.

'meant to be deployed by a group of soldiers' is the wordplay.
I cannot really understand how this works, but
an anagram of 'meant' is 'ament' which is located in the answer.
'a' is found in the answer.
'soldiers' could be 'rm' (Royal Marines) and 'rm' is found within the answer.
No letters remain.
This explanation may well be incorrect...

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(Other definitions for armament that I've seen before include "Munitions" , "Equipping for war" , "Weaponry" , "The providing of weapons" .)

I've seen this clue in The Times.
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