The phrase "airborne weapons" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used to refer to weapons that are designed to be delivered from the air, such as bombs or missiles.
Example: "The military conducted a successful test of their new airborne weapons system during the recent exercises."
Alternatives: "aerial munitions" or "air-delivered armaments".
Moreover, many people believe that all robots are airborne weapons.
Mr. Bush has argued that the treaty prevents the United States from testing promising technologies, like sea-based or airborne weapons.
The defense system should be independently programmed and maintained to destroy airborne weapons, no matter where the missiles originated, including the United States.
Senior Pentagon officials announced details today of an ambitious missile-testing plan that they said could lead to a working system of land-based, sea-launched and airborne weapons in four years.
"Yesterday a group of suspected insurgents, believed to be en route to attack a joint Afghan-ISAF unit, was engaged by an airborne weapons team resulting in a number of individuals killed and wounded," the American-led International Security Assistance Force, also known as ISAF, said in a statement released Monday.
They contend the main obstacles to developing a viable system are the untested nature of the technology and the high costs -- hundreds of billions of dollars for the kind of "layered" system Mr. Bush has advocated involving land, sea and airborne weapons.
A stone with an airplane's wings and tail reminds one that the plane is heavier than air; a cage recalls the confinement of the cabin; and a plane-shaped box-cutter evokes the image of the airborne weapon.
Once the crew was airborne, carrying thermonuclear weapons, he writes: "It would have been possible to arm and drop them all with no further input from the ground.
At any given time, we have supersonic bombers airborne with nuclear weapons ready to launch attacks if the order comes, and numerous crews on the ground at missile silos around the clock ready to do the same.
"You could take an upgraded version of the Airborne Laser's weapon system and use it to defend forward areas, forward air bases, from medium and even short range ballistic missiles," he says.
They realized that a concentrated strike force was vulnerable to a single nuclear weapon, airborne solutions with good speed and range allowed for significant dispersal; and their CH-46s were wearing out; without replacement, the threat of a merger between the Marine Corps and the Army lingered, similar to President Truman's proposal following World War II.
