warhead
warhead
Definition
war·head (-hed′)
noun
the head, or forward section, of a torpedo, bomb, or other projectile, containing the explosive charge, chemical, etc.
warhead
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- detonate: A ' smart ' fuse detonates the warhead in the underground bunker.
- deploy: By 2012, we will have 80 % fewer strategic warheads deployed than at the end of the Cold War.
- dismantle: The fissile materials from dismantled warheads would have to be placed under safeguards.
- carry: Unlike the Ajax, the Hercules was designed from the outset to carry a nuclear warhead.
- destroy: In the latest test, to destroy a dummy warhead fired from Alaska, the interception missile never even got off the ground.
- remove: We destroyed the last nuclear warhead removed from the territory of Ukraine to Russia in October 2001.
Noun used with modifier
- megaton: For example: you get two attacks with a 20 megaton warhead; with a 50 megaton warhead you get 5 attacks.
- missile: Biological weapons can be delivered in a missile warhead or in the form of a bomb.
- chemical: The Iraqi forces are most likely to fire chemical warheads to cover their retreat or to put down an internal uprising, officials said.
Adjective modifier
- nuclear: A nuclear warhead can be fitted to a torpedo.
- thermonuclear: In 1958, Britain resumed its Special Nuclear Relationship with the United States producing an Anglicized version of the US W28 thermonuclear warhead.
- low-yield: In reality, adding low-yield warheads to the world's nuclear inventory simply makes their eventual use more likely.
- ballistic: We believe it could deliver CBW by a variety of means, including in ballistic missile warheads.
- tactical: A tactical nuclear warhead dropped anywhere at all is the problem.
- strategic: By 2012, we will have 80 % fewer strategic warheads deployed than at the end of the Cold War.
Preposition: on
- missile: This would, for example, impede China from placing multiple warheads on a mobile missile.
Modifies a noun
- dismantlement: I can assure you that we share your concerns about the need to dispose of material resulting from warhead dismantlement.
- stockpile: This additional investment at AWE is required to sustain the existing warhead stockpile in-service irrespective of decisions on any successor warhead.
Preposition: from
- missile: The further step of removing warheads from missiles would also add a new vulnerability to our deterrent posture.
Preposition: for
- missile: There was a nuclear warhead for this missile, code named Indigo Hammer.
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