As a result, warhead components are contained within an aluminium honeycomb substructure, sheathed in pyrolytic graphite-epoxy resin composite, with a heat-shield layer on top which is constructed out of 3-Dimensional Quartz Phenolic.

The primary anti-ship armament was two to four Mark 8 torpedoes, which weighed and contained a TNT warhead.

These torpedoes and tubes were replaced in mid-1943 by four lightweight Mark 13 torpedos, which weighed and contained a Torpex filled warhead.

The missile contained a small 1. 4 kg warhead with a contact fuse and a single-stage solid-rocket motor that accelerated the missile to about 650 m / s.

A further problem is that, if the warhead is contained inside the barrel, its diameter becomes overly restricted by the caliber of that barrel.

Both RVs contained a W-49 thermonuclear warhead with an explosive yield of 1. 44 megatons.

Training craft were fitted with a dummy warhead that contained telemetry equipment and an emergency blowing chamber, that could return the craft to the surface should the trainee dive to a dangerous depth.

Mark 6 re-entry vehicle which contained the W-53 nuclear warhead, fitted to the Titan II

The warhead was primarily intended to impact the target directly, and had contact and magnetic fuzes, but also contained a back-up optical proximity fuze to detonate the warhead in case of a near miss.

Originally developed to be dropped from the Convair B-36 bomber, it weighed 10, 000 lb ( 4, 500 kg ) and contained an 8, 050 lb ( 3, 650 kg ) Tritonal warhead.

Warren AFB were the " B " models, which contained one warhead.

Or put another way, the hardest missile site planned today could be destroyed by placing a one-kiloton warhead ( 1/20th the size of those used in Hiroshima and Nagasaki ) within 100 to 200 feet of the target!!

In this type of warhead, the shape of the explosive material within the warhead focuses the explosive energy on a copper ( or similar metal ) lining.

Flag Officer Submarines minuted that the proposal to arm the Mark VIII with the WE. 177A warhead would, despite the torpedo's performance shortcomings, be " much superior to any present British submarine weapon ..." However, the short range of the Mark VIII put the firing submarine within damage range of the nuclear warhead of its torpedo.

While the incoming warhead came within range of the MSR, the associated computer systems would calculate intercept trajectories and launch times.

On September 19, 1980 a fuel leak caused a Titan II to explode within its silo in Arkansas, throwing the W53 warhead some distance away.

He invades a dam near Hamhung, and plants a nuclear warhead within the structure.

The missile also had an unusual safety mechanism in case of a miss ; rather than a self-destruct fuze, if the optical fuze didn't detect a target within 13 ... 16 seconds, the warhead safety mechanism would be engaged to prevent its detonation upon impact.

The Sparrow has four major sections: guidance section, warhead, control, and rocket motor ( currently the Hercules MK-58 solid-propellant rocket motor ).

Russia has Kh-55SM cruise missiles, with similar to US AGM-129 range of 3000 km, but are able to carry more powerful warhead of 200 kt.

It has similar qualities as the Kh-55, except that its range has been extended to 5, 000 km, equipped with a 1, 000 kg conventional warhead, and has stealth features which reduces its probability of intercept.

Hezbollah possesses the Katyusha-122 rocket, which has a range of 29 km ( 18 mi ) and carries a 15-kg ( 33-lb ) warhead.

As in all arms races, these developments in armor countermeasures have led to the development of RPG rounds designed specifically to defeat them, with methods such as a tandem-charge warhead, which has two shape charges, of which the first is meant to activate any reactive armor, and the second to penetrate the vehicle.

The RPO-M for instance, has a thermobaric warhead with a TNT equivalence of of TNT and similar destructive capabilities as a 152 mm High explosive fragmentation artillery shell.

The KAB-500-OD variant of the KAB-500KR has a thermobaric warhead.

The Iskander-M weighs 4, 615 kg carries a warhead of 710 – 800 kg, has a range of 480 km and achieves a CEP of 5 – 7 meters.

Each Hellfire weighs 47 kg / 106 pounds, including the 9 kg / 20 pound warhead, and has a range of 8, 000 meters.

It has found the missile effective in urban areas, as the relatively small warhead reduces the risk of civilian casualties.

The crew tracks the warhead, finding the remote vehicle has failed from the pressure and stopped on a ledge partway down the trench.

This is simply the radius of the circle that the warhead has a 50 percent chance of falling into when aimed at the center.

The DF-31 has range of 8, 000 + km, and can carry a single 1, 000 kt warhead, or up to three 20-150 kt MIRV warheads.

It has similarities to the famous RPG but the warhead is much bigger ( approx.

There is no evidence that North Korea has been able to miniaturize a nuclear warhead for use on a ballistic missile.

North Korea has since barred IAEA inspectors from the Yongbyon site, and the South has claimed that the North is pushing for the manufacture of a nuclear warhead.

It has a powerful blast warhead, triggered by either contact detonation ( against a submarine hull ) or an acoustic proximity fuze ( for under-keel detonation against ships ).

This warhead contains an airborne virus that spreads rapidly and consumes upon living things, quickly eradicating all life in the target radius ; once all life has been eradicated the virus will begin to consume itself, thus ending the virus.

It has a 1, 000 kg payload, capable of carrying a considerable amount of high explosives or a 1 MT yield nuclear warhead.

It has improvements to its guidance system and warhead, a few small changes on the missile body, and a new re-entry vehicle whose terminal guidance system and rocket-nozzle steering method are completely different from the Shahab-3A's spin-stabilized re-entry vehicle.

One day later, on July 9, 2008, Iran once-again fired a version of the Shahab-3, amongst other missiles, which officials have said has a range of and is armed with a 1-ton conventional warhead.

The SDG missile has no propulsion system or warhead but contains operational missile subsystems and telemetry systems.

To comply with the START II most U. S. multiple independently targetable reentry vehicles, or MIRVs, have been eliminated and replaced with single warhead missiles.

Livermore had been working on x-ray lasers for some time, but Chapline found a new solution that used the massive release of x-rays from a nuclear warhead as the source of light for a small baseball-bat sized lasing crystal in the form of a metal rod.

Newer calculations showed that if the Starfish Prime warhead had been detonated over the northern continental United States, the magnitude of the EMP would have been much larger ( 22 to 30 kilovolts / metre ) because of the greater strength of the Earth's magnetic field over the United States, as well as the different orientation of the Earth's magnetic field at high latitudes.

He and other national security professionals later said he was a " scapegoat " in the government's quest to determine if information about the W88 nuclear warhead had been transferred to China.

However, FBI investigators soon determined that the design data the PRC had obtained could not have come from the Los Alamos Lab, because it related to information that would only have been available to someone like a so-called " downstream " contractor, meaning one involved in the final warhead production process, and this information was only created after the weapon design left the LANL.

The P3I would have been very much like the AIM-132, but with the addition of thrust vectoring to provide increased agility and to carry a larger warhead to meet the requirements expressed by the US Navy led AIM-9X program.

In July 2008, The Guardian claimed that the decision had already been made to replace and upgrade Britain's nuclear warhead stockpile at a cost of £ 3bn, extending the life of the warheads until 2055.

The lightest nuclear warhead ever acknowledged to have been manufactured by the U. S. is the W54, which was used in both the Davy Crockett 120 mm recoilless rifle – launched warhead, and the backpack-carried version called the Mk-54 SADM ( Special Atomic Demolition Munition ).

Most weapons have additional arming circuitry that, even if a valid launch code is entered, will not arm the warhead unless the weapon senses that it has been released on an expected delivery path.

One explanation that has been suggested is that the nuclear warhead which detonated at the end of the first season was an experimental model that was designed to only destroy buildings and not humans.

It has also been reported that an air-launched cruise missile ( ALCM ) with a range of 350 km has been developed by Pakistan, designated Hatf 8 and named Ra ' ad ALCM, which may theoretically be armed with a nuclear warhead.

Three thousand years later, in Children of the Mind, the device has been scaled into the warhead of a missile, small enough to fit inside a small room.

Originally designated as the " Rocket 66mm HEAT L1A1 " M72 LAW, it has been replaced in the anti-tank role but has been modified for structure demolition purposes, the main difference is the warhead, the LASM contains about 1 kg of an enhanced blast explosive, whereas the LAW contains about a third of a kilogramme.

An RT-2PM Topol with two MIRVs may have been tested in 1991, and the missile was tested at least once with four MIRV warheads, but there has apparently been no further development of a multiple warhead version.

As it combined a good accuracy with a penetration that was independent of range, it has been considered an " ideal round " for its day The AMX-30 was also designed to fire the OCC F1 Mle. 60 high explosive projectile, the SCC F1 training warhead and the OFUM PH-105 F1 smoke round.

Aviation Week and Space Technology reported that damage had been found consistent with a continuous-rod warhead, which would have had to have come from an anti-aircraft missile.