Sentences with phrase «many warheads»

Warheads gave you playground credibility; the more you could eat at once, or the number of Warheads you could eat in a certain span of time gave you cool points.

One of these proposed weapons, an autonomous submarine, stood out among the depictions of falling warheads and nuclear - powered cruise missiles.

Some warheads can deploy parachutes to slow down further and precisely release chemical or biological agents, Pike said.

Before the US military's Peacekeeper missile went out of service in 2005, for instance, it could be armed with up to 10 warheads — each of which could hit a different target.

«Unmanned underwater vehicles can carry either conventional or nuclear warheads, which enables them to engage various targets, including aircraft groups, coastal fortifications, and infrastructure,» he said.

After a warhead finishes plowing through the atmosphere, it keeps falling until it reaches the target.

The Minuteman III can carry up to three nuclear warheads at once, but today, the missiles carry just one because of international arms control agreements.

That's because warheads are often designed to explode high above a target — not close to the ground, where their fireballs can suck up and irradiate thousands of tons of dirt and debris.

Better known by the abbreviation ICBMs, such missiles can do exactly what their name implies: deliver a weapon, like a nuclear warhead or nerve agents, to another continent.

Some warheads can also be exploded dozens of miles overhead to generate a widespread, fearsome, electronics - destroying effect called electromagnetic pulse, or EMP.

More - advanced ICBMs can carry and target even more nuclear warheads.

«Russia is developing and deploying new nuclear warheads and launchers,» the leaked review says, adding that these systems include «a new intercontinental, nuclear - armed, undersea autonomous torpedo.»

Finally, the DF - 41 carries up to 12 large nuclear Multiple, Independently targeted Re-entry Vehicle (MIRV) warheads, increasing its effectiveness against multiple large, hardened targets and decreasing the ability to intercept it after re-entry into the atmosphere during its terminal attack phase.

There are widespread fears that North Korea is in the latter stages of developing nuclear warheads that could be attached to its ballistic missiles and aimed at the U.S. and its allies.

North Korea's reported progress on miniaturizing nuclear warheads — coupled with two test flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles in July — are raising pressure on Trump.

The exchange followed a Washington Post report, citing a Defense Intelligence Agency analysis, that Pyongyang successfully developed a nuclear warhead to use on its missiles.

It was not until 1957, with the Soviet launch of Sputnik - 1 using an R - 7 rocket — a Soviet ICBM also capable of delivering thermonuclear warheads — that the US government began to consider the use of rockets for space exploration.

Some of the packages targeted by regulators look like fruit juices, Warhead candies and Nilla Wafers.

But experts have long believed that manufacturing a compact warhead for a long - range missile capable of striking the US is one of the last remaining technologies North Korea has yet to master.

The 30 - foot - long bomb weighs 21,000 pounds — 18,700 pounds of which is the warhead — and was dropped from a C - 130 aircraft a little after 7 p.m. local time on Thursday, the Pentagon said.

There's also skepticism about North Korea's claims about its reentry technology, which is needed to return a warhead to the atmosphere from space so it can hit its intended target.

Earlier this week, an analysis from US intelligence officials revealed that North Korea has figured out how to fit nuclear warheads on missiles, and that the country may have up to 60 nuclear weapons.

Some experts say the missile's claimed ability to carry heavy warheads would allow North Korea to deploy larger bombs or multiple warheads potentially capable of striking different targets.

Further, Russia designed its nuclear weapons arsenal as absolute doomsday devices that rain up to 10 high - yield nuclear warheads down on targets at Mach 23 in a salvo that the US can't possibly hope to intercept.

North Korea says the missile can carry a heavy nuclear warhead.

And it also lifts scientists in the authoritarian nation who are working to build an arsenal of missiles with nuclear warheads that can reach the US mainland.

This includes both strategic and nonstrategic warheads.

Experts have told Business Insider that if the US assesses that North Korea may fire a ballistic missile with a nuclear warhead, the military may look to shoot the missile down.

Tillerson's remarks came two weeks after North Korea conducted a test with a missile that could potentially carry a nuclear warhead to the U.S. Eastern Seaboard.

At present, the US has approximately 4,480 warheads.

Warheads on aircraft are more flexible.

Warheads in reserve still need this final attachment step before they can be used.

Tracking a pre-planned route from launch to target using Global Positioning Satellites and an internal navigation system, the missile is designed to strike with a 1,000 - pound penetrating warhead.

«The North will carry out additional nuclear tests and continue to push for the development of miniaturized, diversified nuclear warheads,» South Korea's National Intelligence Service said, according to lawmakers who spoke with Yonhap.

Enhanced warheads, for example, are dozens of times more powerful than the relatively crude bombs that destroyed Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

For Iron Dome, videos of interception attempts lack enough detail to confirm the rockets» warheads were destroyed.

Apparently, the countermeasure deflagrates the RPG's warhead without detonating it, leaving the «dudded» RPG fragments to just bounce off the vehicle's side.

Scaling the damage rates relative to warhead weight can adjust for these differences.

Contract workers at the U.S. Department of Energys Pantex facility gingerly remove the plutonium cores from retired nuclear warheads.

Elleman estimates that the missiles would struggle even to reach the US's west coast with a reasonably size nuclear warhead aboard.

The delicate, potentially deadly dismantling of nuclear warheads at Pantex, while little noticed, has grown increasingly urgent to keep the United States from exceeding a limit of 1,550 warheads permitted under a 2010 treaty with Russia.

The United States wants to dismantle older warheads so that it can substitute some of them with newer, more lethal weapons.

North Korea's official Korean Central News Agency calls the missile a «new ground - to - ground medium long - range strategic ballistic rocket» and says it was «capable of carrying a large, heavy nuclear warhead.»

But Mike Elleman, a leading missile expert, wrote on 38 North, a website for North Korea analysis, that despite the missile's size it still probably couldn't send a heavy nuclear warhead as far as the US's east coast.

Following the launch, Pyongyang issues a statement saying the Hwasong - 15 is «capable of carrying a super-heavy nuclear warhead.»

Amid the terror and aggressiveness then of government and military leaders on both sides, little or no thought was given what to do with the warheads should the risk of mass annihilation ebb.

Musk's plan to fly people in rockets essentially amounts to taking the warheads out of nuclear missiles and putting people in them instead.

While the MK 50 is much lighter than the MK 48 above, it still hits with an impressive 100 - pound warhead and can swim at a blistering 40 knots.

Hours before, North Korean state news agency KCNA released pictures showing Kim inspecting a silver, hourglass - shaped warhead during a visit to the North's nuclear weapons institute.

The weapon, which can carry nuclear warheads while travelling at 7,000 mph, can also reportedly neutralize the U.S. anti-missile shield.