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Meanings of warhead in английском

португальский
ogiva
каталонский
ogiva
испанский
carga explosiva
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The front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents.

ogiva
русский
боеголовки
португальский
ogiva
испанский
ojiva de barra continua
каталонский
ogiva

Damage-creating payload delivered by a rocket, missile, or torpedo.

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Usage of warhead in английском
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Barbecues, shopping carts; maybe tomorrow a parking meter or a nuclear warhead.
Misery
2
It's an all-out nuclear warhead of positivity aimed right at his audience.
The South African
3
You don't build those capabilities to deliver a conventional warhead, he added.
BBC
4
The place was empty, save steel racks cradling three conical warhead casings.
Ghosts of Onyx
5
It merely throws a warhead at the other side of the world.
Anathem
6
You could hear it for miles away, the warhead detonations, the shrieks.
World war z: an oral history of the zombie war
7
This structure-activity relationship study focused on the P4 oxamides and warhead moieties.
Pubmed
8
Or, as Davis suggests, the tiny vehicle itself might be the warhead.
Wired
9
The detonation of even a small warhead could result in all-out nuclear war.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...
10
North Korea says the missile could carry a large nuclear warhead.
Reuters
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He did not say whether it was capable of carrying a nuclear warhead.
The Irish Times
12
The trajectory is similar, the size is similar, the warhead size is similar.
Wired
13
So it ought to be able to pick up a plutonium-leaking nuclear warhead.
Hollow World
14
Or maybe they threaten the Boston people with a nuclear warhead.
The stand
15
Barely beyond the fatal radiation zone the now distant warhead detonated.
The Universe — or Nothing
16
The nuclear warhead, miraculously unscathed, was still in the missile bay.
One minute to midnight: kennedy, khrushchev, and castro on the b...