Examples of warhead in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web Russia has successfully test-launched a Sarmat intercontinental ballistic missile, capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, President Vladimir Putin said this week. — Fox News, 25 Apr. 2022 The dispatch suggested the weapon tested is likely capable of carrying a nuclear warhead, but KCNA didn’t elaborate. — NBC News, 17 Apr. 2022 Some analysts suspected that, unlike the Hwasong-15, which is built to carry a single warhead, the Hwasong-17 appeared to be designed to carry multiple nuclear warheads. — Choe Sang-hun, BostonGlobe.com, 31 Mar. 2022 Loitering munitions are drones that carry an explosive warhead, allowing a drone to locate and attack a target in the same flight. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 28 Mar. 2022 Consider a 1 megaton nuke, reportedly the size of a warhead on a modern Russian intercontinental ballistic missile. — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 9 Mar. 2022 The Switchblade 600 tactical missile system contains high-precision optics and an anti-armor warhead for use against non-line-of-sight targets, such as tanks, artillery, and armored vehicles. — CBS News, 29 Apr. 2022 Each Bazalt is just over 40 feet long, weighs 10,500 pounds, and carries a 2,000-pound, high-explosive or nuclear warhead. — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 15 Apr. 2022 North Korea last detonated a nuclear bomb in September 2017, a few months before freezing tests of atomic devices and intercontinental ballistic missiles that could deliver a warhead to the U.S. mainland. — Jon Herskovitz, Bloomberg.com, 7 Apr. 2022 See More

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