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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
warhead
noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
chemical
▪ Initial fears that the Scuds were carrying chemical warheads proved groundless.
▪ Faced with the threat of nuclear, chemical or biological warheads, missing one or two is not an acceptable option.
▪ It revealed 10,000 chemical bombs, as well as 50 Scud missiles, including at least 30 with chemical warheads for long-range missiles.
nuclear
▪ It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden, and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads.
▪ And nuclear warheads seem to be the weapon or toy of choice for all those involved.
▪ The Citadel was where nuclear warheads were made.
▪ Each tube can hold a Trident missile with up to eight nuclear warheads that can be flung 4, 000 nautical miles.
▪ The proportions of the mix in the Reagan/Brezhnev head are based on the number of nuclear warheads in each leader's arsenal.
▪ The Soviet Union, however, once loaded the missile with a 1-megaton nuclear warhead.
■ VERB
carry
▪ It is so small and mobile that it could easily be hidden, and it can carry nuclear or conventional warheads.
▪ Currently, the Royal Navy is expected to carry 512 nuclear warheads on its Trident fleet.
▪ The Western hemisphere would soon be in range of and vulnerable to Soviet intercontinental ballistic missiles, carrying megaton warheads.
▪ Initial fears that the Scuds were carrying chemical warheads proved groundless.
▪ These missiles can carry several warheads each, bringing the total to 6400.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
▪ At worst, they can sink or lose their nuclear warheads at sea.
▪ Each tube can hold a Trident missile with up to eight nuclear warheads that can be flung 4, 000 nautical miles.
▪ If he believes in friendship and partnership, at whom will we be pointing the Trident warheads?
▪ Indeed, fusion bombs and warheads must be periodically disassembled and recharged with fresh tritium.
▪ That would make decoys irrelevant, because the explosion would take out warhead and decoys alike over a wide area.
▪ The campaign's agenda of Trident, conversion, test bans and warhead convoys is plenty wide enough.
▪ They might as well have been armed with nerf warheads.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
warhead

also war-head, 1898, "explosive part of a torpedo," from war (n.) + head (n.). Later transferred to any missile (1944).

Wiktionary
warhead

n. The part of a missile, projectile, torpedo, rocket, or other munition which contains either the nuclear or thermonuclear system, high explosive system, chemical or biological agents, or inert materials intended to inflict damage.

WordNet
warhead

n. the front part of a guided missile or rocket or torpedo that carries the nuclear or explosive charge or the chemical or biological agents [syn: payload, load]

Wikipedia
Warhead

The term warhead refers to the explosive or toxic material that is delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo.

Warhead (video game)

Warhead is a 3D space combat simulator for Amiga (A500 and A2000) and Atari ST platforms. Warhead is known for its strong alien atmosphere, reasonably realistic space kinematics and a fish-eye perspective through which the space is viewed. It was created by Glyn Williams in 1989.

The game takes place during a war between the alien forces of Sirius and the humans of Earth. The player fights for the Earth forces. The game is played as sequential missions. Completing a mission successfully lets the player advance to the next mission. It is possible to save the game status after each mission, but not during a mission. Typical mission objectives include intelligence gathering, search and rescue missions, destroying enemies and protecting friendly forces. The player is sent for missions from the SolBase, a military base orbiting the Sun. The player must travel to different solar systems using a device that allows faster than light travel through quad-space, which is a form of hyperspace.

Warhead spawned a spiritual sequel, XF5700 Mantis.

Warhead (Star Trek: Voyager)

"Warhead" is the 119th episode of the science fiction television series Star Trek: Voyager, the 24th episode of the fifth season.

Warhead (film)

Warhead is a 1977 American film directed by John O'Connor and produced by Buddy Ruskin who produced The Mod Squad. The film was originally shot in Israel in 1973 under the title Sabra Command

The film is also known as Prisoner in the Middle, and Mission Overkill (in West Germany). In Mexico, it was released as Amenaza Nuclear ("Nuclear Threat").

Warhead (disambiguation)

A warhead is an explosive device used in military conflicts.

Warhead may also refer to:

  • Warhead (1977 film), a 1977 American film directed by John O'Connor
  • Warhead (video game), a 3D space combat simulator for Amiga and Atari ST platforms
  • Warhead (robot), a fighting robot from Team Razer
  • "Warhead" (Star Trek: Voyager), a Star Trek: Voyager episode
  • "Warhead", a science fiction novel by Ricardo Delgado
  • "Warhead", a component of agents used in Activity-based proteomics
  • "Warhead", a song by punk rock band U.K. Subs
  • "Warhead", a song by nu metal band Otep
  • "Warhead", a song by electronic musician Krust
  • "Warhead", a song by heavy metal band Tarot
  • "Warhead", a song by black metal band Venom
  • Warhead, the Kzin name for the planet Canyon in the Man-Kzin Wars
  • Warhead, the title of a 1970s non EON-produced James Bond film, set to star Sean Connery, that never went into production
  • Warhead, the name of the serial that was originally supposed to conclude Season 20 of Doctor Who. It eventually became Resurrection of the Daleks and was transmitted in Season 21.

Usage examples of "warhead".

We could use some form of a brain wave system to navigate our ICBM warhead final stage vehicles if their on board radar detected a threat from an antiballistic missile.

The huge projectiles were high explosives, some antipersonnel warheads carrying up to one hundred and ninety-five grenades.

Somehow, he determined afterward, the warhead must have been armed with something that penetrated an avgas bunker.

Such a move would be motivated less by fear of what a warhead might do to one of their proud battlecraft than what might happen to the asteroid mines and spaceborne factories they had established.

Israelis claim Grozny sold the Iranians sickle missiles with nuclear warheads when he helped negotiate the 2007 Middle East Peace Accord.

Then it would be fairly simple to seal off a compartment and hide the warheads there.

The explosions of their 200mm warheads on the Fritz positions eight kilometers to the north echoed back, grumbling, from mountains shrouded in cloud like a surf of fire, glittering like sun on tropical spray, each shell paced with a score of submunitions, bomblets.

Even c-ships with nuclear warheads would be detectable in plenty of time to intercept And would the Synesis ever make war?

Mostly controlled crashes, survivable for unicells, and a few larger payloads with bunker-buster warheads to deliver the same organisms below the surface of the planet where we suspect the presence of buried water.

Those warheads were designed for variable yield, adjustable to suit the tactical circumstances, and Colonel Uran Na-Lythan had ordered them set for maximum yield.

They contain the two main ingredients for the weapon hi question in two physically separated containers within the warhead.

The Ukrainians said they were out of the arms race business, and immediately decommissioned their warheads.

For instance, the inspectors learned not only that Iraq had an offensive BW program, but also that it had weaponized biological agents and had loaded them into 166 bombs and 25 missile warheads for use during the Gulf War if the coalition marched on Baghdad.

If the Engineers kept up their attempts to attack the Orbitals, if the warheads kept betraying their age and instability, if Duncan kept on throwing rocks, food, water, and air would be contaminated with radioactive fallout.

The cargo scows broke up into thousands of robot-guided missiles with Bergenholm drives, polycyclic drills and atomic warheads.