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...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

| quote = In 2017, will validate PABM fuze technology and warhead lethality data, iterating and improving as necessary; using a commercially

Its [[warhead]], in excess of 2000 pounds of high explosive, would detonate on contact. P

...ce that is sufficiently small and rugged to be used, operationally, as the warhead of a guided missile, artillery|artillery shell, or unguided rocket. ...is spherical. Such shapes fit much more efficiently into a conical missile warhead.

...ns the materials or mechanism that will affect the target is the missile's warhead; ballistic missile warheads are contained in atmospheric reentry#warheads|r

...lows and stabilizes with a parachute, and then fires a rocket to drive the warhead through and under the runway before it explodes. A variety of [[cluster mun

In the 1980 case of the W53 warhead, thrown a considerable distance when its carrying missile exploded in an un

...[[MGR-3 Little John]] 320mm heavy rockets capable of delivering a nuclear warhead, plus armed Mohawks and [[UH-1]] "Hueys" for direct support.

...ircraft uses the [[AGM-65 Maverick]], which has a wide range of sensor and warhead combinations, as well as extreme precision. Most often, the passive infrar

...nergy of an intercontinental ballistic missile atmospheric reentry#warhead|warhead, filled with inert material, may be sufficient to destroy extremely hardene ...g circuitry that, even if a valid launch code is entered, will not arm the warhead unless the weapon senses that it has been released on an expected delivery

Complementing the projectile warhead is the Modular Artillery Charge System (MACS).

...ritish BaE Systems ALARM and U.S. AGM-88 HARM. It has an especially large warhead, intended principally to destroy early warning and ground control radars, a

...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&nbsp;km (185&nbsp;mi) and carrying a 1000&nbsp;kg (2200&nbsp;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.