Sentences with phrase «targeted nuclear warheads»

Deployed aboard Ohio - class ballistic missile submarines, each Trident II can carry 14 independently - targeted nuclear warheads.

Not exact matches

«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.

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

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.

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.

If a nuclear warhead detonates «too far» away from the (real) target, it might not destroy the target.

Important questions yet to be resolved include the details of obtaining and confirming a target warhead during the zero - knowledge measurement; specifics of establishing and maintaining the pre-loaded detectors in a way that ensures inspecting party confidence without revealing any data considered sensitive by the inspected party; and feasibility questions associated with safely deploying active interrogation measurement techniques on actual nuclear warheads in sensitive physical environments, in a way that provides confidence to both the inspected and inspecting parties.

The nuclear warheads resting on ballistic missiles in silos, circling the globe in submarines or carried — sometimes mistakenly — by aircraft hail from an era when the U.S. targeted its largest foe, the U.S.S.R. and, more recently, Russia and China.