WARHEAD


Meaning of WARHEAD in English

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.

Longman DOCE5 Extras English vocabulary.      Дополнительный английский словарь Longman DOCE5.