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...countermeasures]], which, rather than sending a missile with an explosive warhead, send a beam of intense light into an infrared sensor to burn it out.

For the anti-tank role, it has a dual warhead to defeat [[reactive armor]]. The explosive charge is larger than that of t

...tic energy of the reentry vehicle is so high that a conventional explosive warhead would not add as much energy as a dense inert mass. ...e, built by Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space, contains a MK 12 or MK 12A warhead.

...nuclear burst, the local atmosphere is disturbed sufficiently that another warhead, passing through that disturbed air, may be thrown off course or even destr

*The W54 nuclear warhead device, now retired, developed by the United States in the early 1962s, had

...pting it rather than producing effects; the strongest cases are military [[warhead]]s and gravity bombs.

...f mass destruction]] and command centers. The speed of an incoming Trident warhead is such that its kinetic energy, filled with concrete or metal rods, is gre

...ing rocket stages, re-entry vehicles, rocket engines, guidance systems and warhead mechanisms.

...can be used to transport or launch '''[[missile]]s''' ([[rockets]] with [[warhead]]s), essentially a form of [[rocket artillery]]. Such a vehicle may trans

Torpedoes continued to improve in range, speed, stability, and [[warhead]] power. The flying [[bomber aircraft|torpedo bomber]] matured, as did subm

...ntificated rather than forecasted, saying no one would ever put a nuclear warhead on a missile.<ref>{{citation

...triot. Earlier Patriot versions which used a blast-fragmentation proximity warhead, which has advantages against aircraft targets. Blast-fragmentation becomes

...n, it comprises a radio installed in the nose of an artillery or missile [[warhead]] that detects an enemy plane, or the ground, and explodes at exactly the r

...nsecticide sprayers, including crop-dusting aircraft. Only [[bomb]]s and [[warhead]]s designed to disperse biological agents without destroying them are unque

The most common filler for the warhead of a mortar shell is high explosive, which does damage by blast and fragmen

...M77 bomblet, all too frequently, with estimates of 3 to 25 percent of each warhead, the bomblets landed but did not detonate. Those bomblets still could deton

...fied by the German ''Panzerfaust'' or Soviet ''RPG-7''. These have a large warhead, really too large to be thrown by hand, that protrudes from the muzzle of a

It also should be noted that the warhead of even a large air-to-air missile such as the AIM-120 AMRAAM is in the 40-

...ce that is sufficiently small and rugged to be used, operationally, as the warhead of a guided missile, artillery|artillery shell, or unguided rocket. ...lear energy, has a number, which is prefixed by "B" if a bomb and "W" if a warhead. A link, therefore, could be to W54 (nuclear weapon)|W54, or to a weapon be

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