Sentences with phrase «of warhead»

Warhead 1991 Well, this is the simple, shareware (but full) version of Warhead, made by Brian C. Lowe and Eric Lee Steadle.

Perhaps if this version sells well, we'll see a console - friendly version of Warhead in the future.

He compared the pit — so named because it is spherical and positioned near the center of a warhead — to the heart of a human being, explaining that destructive testing is like taking a blood sample capable of exposing harmful maladies.

Among them: warheads carried by America's nuclear submarines and land - based intercontinental ballistic missiles, plus an older type of warhead still stockpiled for use by strategic bombers.

Analysis of the seismic waves caused by last week's blast put the yield of the warhead tested at between 50 and 100 kilotons.

The resulting neutron data can be rendered as an image that appears essentially blank if the warhead is real, but shows details of the warhead if it's not.

The light makes the nuclei of the warhead's atoms vibrate.

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.

Yes, to be a credible offensive weapon in a large scale war, more than a handful of warheads may be needed.

Candidates for cut off points might be: Numbers of weapons mated to delivery systems at any one time, numbers of warheads bigger than the minimum that allows economical maintenance (what would that number be?

Although the Strategic Defence Review said the shift from WE177 and Polaris to Trident had reduced the UK's megatonnage of warheads by 70 per cent since the 1970s, Trident is a much more powerful weapon than its predecessors.

A declaratory policy of going to sea only with unarmed missiles and storing a reduced stockpile of warheads for redeployment within a specified timeframe.

Thus, if a country has 25 ICBMs, an opponent might need hundreds of warheads to be confident of getting a «close enough» hit on every ICBM silo.

(As Dulles's doctrine evolved, the number of warheads would jump to 3,500 by late 1957, double to 7,000 by 1959, hit 12,305 by 1961, and top 23,000 two years later.)

The Stockpile Stewardship program ensures the safety, security, and reliability of these warheads without nuclear testing.

Anyway, there is much violence and blood shed, during the midst of which a twisted and disgruntled Russian music teacher makes off with one of the warheads and heads to New York to bomb the city.

The first set of warheads has been shipped off under the watch of best of the best of the American military, Duke [Channing Tatum] and Ripcord [Marlon Wayans].

There is only one hope of saving the planet: Send a spacecraft to land on the meteor, plant an arsenal of warheads deep into its surface, and push the rock off its course.

For example, the Warmonger is a super powerful rocket launcher capable of downing Drek warfighters with a couple of warheads.

«While governments claim they are only ensuring the safety of their warheads through replacement of bomb components and launch systems, as the deliberate process of arms reduction proceeds, such developments appear to other states to be signs of substantial military build - ups.»

Not exact matches

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

«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.

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

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.»

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.

The number of nuclear warheads on a Trident II was limited to eight and the number of missiles on each submarine was limited to 20 by nuclear treaties.

The MK 48 heavy torpedo has 650 pounds of high - explosives packed into its warhead.

The biggest difference in the Knyaz Vladimir is its ability to launch four additional RSM - 56 Bulava ballistic missiles, each capable of carrying multiple nuclear warheads.

The business plan: Increase the value of Goldfinger's own considerable gold holdings by detonating a «dirty» nuclear warhead inside the U.S. Bullion Depository at Fort Knox, Ky., rendering the American gold reserve radioactive and useless for 58 years.

As Franz - Stefan Gady at The Diplomat points out, this means that the Knyaz Vladimir «will be capable of launching 96 - 200 hypersonic, independently maneuverable warheads, yielding 100 - 150 kilotons apiece,» meaning each warhead alone is ten times more powerful than the bomb dropped on Hiroshima.

Her first client was a longtime friend named Steve Adelman, CEO of SAA International, a small company that wanted help bidding on warhead design work.

«There's a big debate going on in the technical community that works on these things, and it's exactly about how heavy the warhead would be that North Korea could build, and what capabilities they can get out of their rocket engines,» he said.