Sentences with phrase «warhead design»

Project lead of a successful missile warhead design with improved effectiveness at lower cost for the customer.

Typically, this process would take many years and several tests, although the collaboration with American weapon designers has helped to speed up Britain's programme in comparison with, say, the French (who carry out more nuclear tests per warhead design than the other nuclear weapons state).

Nuclear warhead design takes place over a period of several years.

I already addressed lethality against modern tanks - but can go deeper about Kinetic Energy, Armor slope, target size, Ph and Pk percentages (Probability of Hit / Probability of Kill) missile warhead design, effectiveness of russian ERA packages (very good), but long story short, the gun just doesn't have the power to punch through modern tank armor, and the missiles lack the warhead to kill modern tanks.

Mr. Lloyd also has the credentials for a critique, having written two books on antimissile warhead design during two decades at Raytheon, a top antimissile contractor.

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.

In a «Globes» interview today, Tal Inbar, head of the Space Research Center at the Fisher Institute for Air & Space Strategic Studies, stated, «The backbone of Hamas's missile batteries is the Grad missile, a standard 122 - mm rocket with a 20 - 40 km range and a metal fragmentation warhead designed to cause casualties.»

The first is to continue what the government is doing and carry on as though nothing has happened — that is, expect the AWE scientists to produce new, safe warhead designs for ever and to be able to attract new blood.

Not exact matches

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.

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.

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.

There is intelligence suggesting that Iran has worked on weapon designs, but not that it has developed a delivery system for any potential nuclear warhead.

The system's maker, an Israeli company called Rafael, says in a promotional video that the interceptor is designed «to ensure destruction» of the enemy warhead.

Into the afternoon, US stocks slipped further (S&P -13 to 2656, telecom lags), hurt by comments from Israel's Netanyahu (Iran lied, had secret project to design, produce and test warheads - hopes to sway Trump to restore sanctions on Iran).

A design contract for the warheads is due to be signed during the parliamentary recess, and the nuclear weapons were excluded from the defence review announced last week.

Concerned that the United States» 10,000 - strong stockpile of atomic bombs are past their prime, scientists at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California and Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico are vying to design the first new nuclear bomb in the United States since the W88 warhead in the mid-1980s.

The bomb, dubbed the Reliable Replacement Warhead, «is the next logical step,» announced the Department of Energy, which sponsors the design competition and is expected to select a winning model for development — pending congressional approval — later this year.

A new class of nuclear weapons is being designed to replace the W - 88 warhead, which is fired from submarines.

The only solution, they say, is to design and build new warheads.

But the first Reliable Replacement Warhead — and Complex 2030 behind it — is not designed with that goal in mind and, in the absence of policy statements from the current administration, it remains unclear what the role for nuclear weapons — old or new — in the U.S. might be.

During a press conference and subsequent interviews, NNSA officials stressed that the design for the W76 replacement warhead is not a new one.

And in early March, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in California won the initial competition to design the nation's first new nuclear warhead in 20 years.

The second is to be ready to design a new nuclear warhead if called upon to do so.

The scientists would then produce a modified design, carry out another nuclear test and so on until the warhead was exploding in the required manner.

Only with these new toys would the AWE scientists be able to continue to contribute to the long established information exchange between Britain and the US, feel competent in maintaining Britain's stockpile and feel able, should they be ever called on, to design a new warhead.

Military scientists and engineers designed ballistic missiles and liquid - fueled rockets, both of which were made to carry warheads longer distances than previously thought possible.

Soviet ships, originally designed to carry cargo such as lumber or food, had been outfitted to transport nuclear warheads to their ally in the Caribbean.

What Warhead trims in terms of scale is balanced out by a greater attention to pacing and sensible gameplay variety, as well as level design that seems more tuned to the game's unique (and enjoyable) combat and suit mechanics.

Complete freedom from start to finish: Crysis Warhead features more of Crytek's trademark open - ended sandbox game design, with explosive and dynamic gameplay that will leave you facing new challenges minute - by - minute!

With its sleek design, 5.8 GHz frequency and exclusive Xbox 360 compatibility, the Tritton Warhead 7.1 Wireless Surround Headset is for a gamer who wants a wireless audio solution he'll rarely need to think about.

With more than 17 years of manufacturing design Integration system testing and manufacturing experience for the Department of Defense in everything from virtual environments to live warheads.