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...of Alaska, including the largest underground test in U.S. history, the W71 warhead]] for ballistic missile defense.

...ti-ship cruise missiles. Several vessels were sunk, even when the Exocet's warhead failed to explode, because the missile's rocket engines were hot enough to

...oiter in the target area like a UAV, drawing radar attention, but it has a warhead and can attack. The U.S. was concerned about such an approach violating arm

...d in spray submunitions. Nerve agents, especially VX, are flammable, and a warhead burster very well might destroy them.

.... They want to discover tactically relevant things about it: its range, [[warhead]] characteristics, accuracy, susceptibility to [[electronic warfare]], and

...missiles in surface-to-surface mode, with concrete replacing the explosive warhead, to give more armor penetration. ...aditional battleship shell, to say nothing of a substantial high-explosive warhead and burning fuel.

| standoff missile with W80 (nuclear weapon)|W80 warhead of 5/150KT yield

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...articular, they are a key component in the manufacture of heat shields for warhead reentry vehicles." There are other applications in advanced weapons. Frustr

...ambitious in their fusing, were unprecedented, in WWII, in their range and warhead size.

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There are two warhead types, kinetic energy (KE) and chemical energy (CE). Kinetic energy rounds,

...e fragmentation, smoke, and other variants available for the M79/M203. Its warhead was 85mm, which projected from the muzzle of the 40mm launcher. RPG rounds

...arhead with an accuracy of a mile is a serious concern if it has a nuclear warhead, but, while terrifying and lethal if you were in the target area, they were

...of 300 km (185 mi) and carrying a 1000 kg (2200 lb) [[warhead]]. The Wehrmacht fired thousands of V-2s at [[Allies|Allied]] nations, caus

Gunpowder and other explosives have several roles in gunnery: the [[warhead]], the propelling charge, and possibly a separate initiating or primer char

...t itself wasn't radioactive). These disadvantages limit the application to warhead delivery system for all-out nuclear war, which it was being designed for.