Sentence examples for designed to detonate upon from inspiring English sources

Cluster bombs are designed to detonate upon impact with the ground, spraying small "bomblets" over an area of several hundred yards.

The key difference was that the most recent bomb was designed to detonate with a trip wire, whereas the first three were essentially pipe bombs concealed in delivery boxes designed to detonate upon opening.

A cellphone was concealed in the bottom of the printer, and the printer head was designed to detonate the explosives.

From its opening notes until its coda, this unquiet bildungsroman is designed to detonate its mild and middling title.

Air Guard and Reserve pilots flew fighter jets carrying a nuclear-tipped rocket designed to detonate in the middle of a wave of Soviet bombers.

From its opening notes, this unquiet bildungsroman about a family of Austrian emigrants — fakes and fraudsters who have cast themselves as Jews — is designed to detonate its middling title.

The bomb employed a fusing system that was designed to detonate the bomb at the most destructive altitude.

Unlike most traditional letter or package bombs, they weren't designed to detonate when the packages were opened.

Components of what may have been a tremble trigger were also found later, designed to detonate the bomb if it was tampered with.

To prevent enemy fire from causing the GAU-8/A rounds to fire prematurely, armor plates of differing thicknesses between the aircraft skin and the drum are designed to detonate incoming shells.

The underwater protection system was constructed out of several layers: the outer layer that was between 12 66 mm (.47 2.6 in) thick, directly underneath the main armoured belt, was designed to detonate the torpedo warhead.