Sentence examples for warheads at from inspiring English sources

It advised focusing on systems that aim to intercept enemy warheads at a later, midcourse trajectory.

This one was part of a program to hurl nuclear warheads at the Soviet Union.

Even so, the Pentagon later admitted that 4 of the 10 analyzed flight tests carried no mock warheads at all.

That is down sharply from more than 15,000 strategic warheads at the height the cold war.

It is eliminating "excess" warheads at the rate of almost one a day and closing down old bits of nuclear infrastructure.

The Russians, claiming that they were intolerably provocative, even threatened to station new short-range missiles in Kaliningrad and to target their existing nuclear warheads at Europe.

It carried an 850-kilogram (1,870-pound 1,870-poundwarhexplosiveout 580 km (360 miles) per hour and had an average range of 240 km (150 miles).

"The interceptors," the agency Web site says in its basic explanation of antimissile goals, "ram the warhead at a very high closing speed, destroying the target".

The missile was armed in flight by a small propeller that, after a specified number of turns, activated the warhead at a safe distance from the launch.

One such deadly and effective system is the so-called hypersonic glide vehicle, which could deliver a nuclear warhead at a speed of seventeen thousand miles per hour.

(North Korea probably has the ability to send a tiny warhead at least as far as Alaska, although its aim is so bad it might hit Canada by mistake).