How to Use warhead in a Sentence

warhead

noun

• The drones are equipped with a javelin anti-tank warhead to hit armored tanks.
  — David Martin, CBS News, 1 Apr. 2022
• It was not equipped with a warhead and had no rocket fuel.
  — Sonja Anderson, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 Feb. 2024
• The missile was not armed with a nuclear warhead during the test.
  — Mark Landler, New York Times, 21 Feb. 2024
• Then the warheads have free flight through the edge of space and only reenter the atmosphere near their target.
  — Ramin Skibba, WIRED, 14 Aug. 2023
• Some experts believe that same warhead was part of the tests conducted on Feb. 26 and March 4.
  — David E. Sanger, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2022
• Its frontal armor can easily shrug off a hit from the type of RPG warhead carried by a Ghoul.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024
• It’s one thing to design a missile with a seeker and warhead that work equally well against targets in the air and on the surface.
  — David Axe, Forbes, 11 July 2022
• The Hwasong-15 has a range that could deliver a nuclear warhead to all of the U.S. mainland, weapons experts have said.
  — Jeong-Ho Lee, Bloomberg.com, 29 Mar. 2022
• From Tunnels to Silo Fields China is not only on a quest for more warheads.
  — Chris Buckley, New York Times, 4 Feb. 2024
• The Shahed-136 is an inexpensive kamikaze drone loaded with a warhead that weighs around sixty to eighty pounds.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 5 Nov. 2022
• The rocket and spacecraft would have to be moved to free up room for the missile carrying a nuclear warhead.
  — Eric Berger, Ars Technica, 6 Apr. 2022
• The weapon instead slammed into the nearby concrete, its warhead shredding more than a dozen floor’s worth of of windows down the building’s side.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 10 Oct. 2022
• The drones were designed for reconnaissance but can be fitted with a warhead.
  — Karina Zaiets, USA Today, 7 Dec. 2022
• Los Alamos has made 11 development pits so far this year, but none of them are destined for warheads.
  — Time, 24 July 2023
• Instead of rocket fuel and a 9-megaton warhead, the missile will sleep four and contain two bathrooms.
  — Jim Dobson, Forbes, 29 Dec. 2022
• Emads have a range of a thousand miles and can carry a conventional or a nuclear warhead.
  — Robin Wright, The New Yorker, 27 Dec. 2021
• The official said propellant had sparked a fire but the missile’s warhead did not detonate.
  — Ellen Francis, Washington Post, 5 Oct. 2022
• The idea of an unmanned submersible carrying a nuclear warhead is not unique to North Korea.
  — Brad Lendon, CNN, 23 Mar. 2023
• The larger Switchblade 600 – fifty pounds, all up — has a much longer range and a warhead capable of taking out armored vehicles.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 8 June 2022
• Photos released by state media appeared to show the same type of missile and warhead that was first tested last week, analysts said.
  — NBC News, 12 Jan. 2022
• Weighing just five and a half pounds including its small warhead, the Switchblade can be brought into battle in a backpack and can fly up to seven miles to hit a target.
  — Ken Dilanian, NBC News, 6 Dec. 2021
• It can be fitted with a warhead that effectively turns into a cruise missile.
  — Arkansas Online, 7 Dec. 2022
• In a flash, a nuclear warhead unleashes the destructive power of hundreds of kilotons of TNT.
  — WIRED, 25 Jan. 2023
• This is an 18-kilo weapon, usually mounted on a vehicle, with a warhead capable of taking out a tank and a range in excess of 40 miles.
  — David Hambling, Forbes, 27 Jan. 2023
• It had been built in 2020, and its thermobaric warhead was deadly against troops and armored vehicles.
  — Natalia Yermak Tyler Hicks, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2022
• These supersonic missiles are quite fast but have only a 14-pound warhead.
  — Sebastien Roblin, Forbes, 17 June 2022
• It’s a drone designed to take off and then crash itself against a target, detonating its 80-pound, high-explosive warhead.
  — Kyle Mizokami, Popular Mechanics, 19 Oct. 2022
• China is in the process of rapidly building nukes, and will likely double its nuclear arsenal to more than 1,000 warheads by the end of the decade, according to the Pentagon.
  — Mathias Hammer, TIME, 13 Nov. 2023
• Ukrainian officials say the wreckage of Shahed-136 drones — which are fitted with a warhead and fly directly into their target — have been found at the site of bomb attacks across the country.
  — Patrick Smith, NBC News, 22 Nov. 2022
• For example, the sensors can track debris and decoy objects kicked out as a missile’s boosters drop away and a warhead descends back toward earth.
  — Zachariah Hughes, Anchorage Daily News, 7 Dec. 2021

Last Updated: 3 May 2024