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warhead [′wȯr‚hed]
(ordnance)
An item which is designed to be mounted in or on a torpedo, guided missile, rocket, or bomb; it may contain high-explosive, nuclear, chemical, biological, or inert materials.


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The advent of surface-to-surface PGMs with focused warheads, such as the Army tactical missile system (ATACMS) Block IA quick-reaction unitary (QRU) missile (the FA's first "fire-and-forget" precision unitary warhead munition), GMLRS unitary and Excalibur unitary give commanders at all levels additional options with which to attack a target rapidly.
Let us call these as technical warhead losses and let us designate them by [DELTA][N.
Dropped from afar, the bunker buster allegedly drills toward its underground target where its smallish nuclear warhead detonates with devastating effect on the enemy below the surface.
 
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