The grenades burst out from the warhead at 150m from the target, saturating a large area with deadly explosive power. |
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One managed to negotiate the harbour's torpedo nets and attach a warhead to the cruiser's hull, and attach magnetic mines to other ships. |
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The missile was successfully tested on November 30 last year while carrying a live warhead. |
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It made less than three knots but carried a warhead of 200 kg of explosive and a number of limpet mines. |
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The radar's job is to figure out which is the real warhead, so that missile interceptors can be launched to try to stop them. |
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On explosion, the warhead produces a great fragmentation effect and shock wave. |
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It will have a 30-minute loiter time at 70 kilometers capability using a micro turbojet engine and a warhead payload. |
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The nuclear warhead must survive exit from and re-entry to the earth's atmosphere at massive speed, accompanied by extremes of temperature. |
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The missile, an air-to-surface warhead developed in the past few years, is finally ready for action. |
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It has a 7,653 yard range and its warhead consists of a tandem-shaped charge to penetrate reactive armour. |
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The torpedo gives the Akula a one-shot kill capability against any naval vessel short of an aircraft carrier due to its huge warhead. |
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Ten rads per hour is several orders of magnitude more than a nuclear warhead would emit. |
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And to be confident in their use, you would need to have tested both the warhead and the missile itself. |
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The high explosive fragmentation warhead is fitted with an active laser proximity fuse. |
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Each missile consists of ten independently targetable multiple re-entry vehicles, each with a 100 kt nuclear warhead. |
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Yesterday, the Pentagon claimed success for its missile shield, after an interceptor missile hit a dummy warhead over the Pacific. |
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I don't believe that they could put a warhead on a missile that could reach the continental United States. |
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The Lake Erie's radar system tracked the dummy warhead and guided the interceptor to collide with it more than 100 miles above the ocean. |
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In its main role as a strategic weapon, the payload would be a 200 kiloton nuclear warhead. |
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First, the front warhead destroys the reactive armour and then the rear warhead has free passage to penetrate the main body armour of the tank. |
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As the torpedo reaches the closest distance to the target, a magnetic proximity fuse and an impact fuse detonates the warhead. |
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And let's keep in mind the ultimate weapon of a terrorist is a nuclear warhead on a missile. |
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The missile uses a tandem warhead, which can defeat modern armor and reactive panels. |
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The missile warhead incorporates a dynamically compensated shaped and copper lined charge. |
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But diplomats close to the agency said it appeared to be a design for the core of a nuclear warhead. |
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An alarm sounded, warning screens blinked and to Petrov's horror a computer map showed the hostile launch of a US nuclear warhead. |
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The warhead is located behind the seeker and is fitted with an impact fuse and a radar proximity fuse. |
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Sensing my aircraft nearby, the proximity fuse in the warhead detonated, spraying shrapnel in a wide arc. |
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Again, you have a horrendous, fundamentally unresolvable problem, of picking the warhead from the decoy. |
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The fragmentation and shaped charge warhead is equipped with a proximity fuse and an impact fuse. |
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They later made a second Chernobylesque blunder by bodging a highly-explosive warhead part back together with tape. |
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The Exocet's 165 kg high-explosive shaped charge warhead is armed with a delayed impact fuse and a proximity fuse. |
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The missile carries a 1,000 lb warhead with a blast radius of several hundred metres. |
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It employed a novel pulse jet engine and short wings to carry its 1,874-pound warhead to targets up to 150 miles. |
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The remote-controlled vehicle is designed to be expendable, carries its own warhead, and uses cheaper components. |
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The test warhead was carried on a modified Minuteman II missile launched 7,700 km away at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. |
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Taking time to look at himself in the reflective shine of the warhead, Seven's circuits crackled with anticipation. |
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It will carry a warhead payload of 404 dual-purpose improved conventional munition bomblets. |
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The missile is armed with a 3kg high explosive warhead loaded with tungsten ball projectiles. |
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First, if the size of the warhead payload is significantly reduced, as suggested above, the range of the missile is extended in an equally significant manner. |
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Soldiers squat under makeshift palm leaf or reed shelters to escape a sun as pitiless as a nuclear warhead. |
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One was built around a two-stage, solid-fueled IRBM carrying a thermonuclear warhead. |
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Result: A tit for tat nuclear warhead and nuclear-capable missile-testing programme breaks out. |
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If they were, then we could all run out and purchase a tank, a grenade launcher, a bazooka, a SCUD missile and a nuclear warhead. |
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No one wants to see Putin riding into battle on the back of a nuclear warhead. |
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Also in October, Iran tested new ballistic missiles capable of delivering a nuclear warhead. |
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The complexes were designed to withstand the nearby detonation of a Soviet nuclear warhead. |
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It used a nuclear warhead because we did not have the homing technology at that time. |
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In Iran, the three kilo class submarines used by the marine forces cannot carry nuclear warhead ballistic missiles. |
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There would no way to discriminate, as is possible in principle, between the decoys and the nuclear warhead. |
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There exists already a missile system that has the capacity to carry a non-existent but potentially existent nuclear warhead to Tel Aviv. |
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And since 1992, over 13 different types of nuclear warhead have been retired or completely eliminated. |
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But it is a serious problem that the Treaty does not require the destruction of a single nuclear warhead. |
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The destruction of the last nuclear warhead will coincide with the age of greater global solidarity. |
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Iran has now designed and built a viable nuclear warhead, which it thinks can be carried by its advanced Shahab missile system. |
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The roof and floor of vehicle can resist 56 type submachine gun with steel cored warhead shooting. |
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It has proven difficult to rearm the metal plates from batteries fast enough to zap the second charge of a tandem warhead. |
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At the lower figure, it would take Iran nearly a year to make a nuclear warhead, if it decided to do so. |
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Articles consisting of a rocket motor and a warhead with means of initiation not containing two or more effective protective features. |
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As a rough estimate, beginners would need at least 20kg of HEU or 10kg of plutonium in order to build one warhead using the implosion method. |
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It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. |
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Whereas the PAC2 uses a proximity fuse to detonate its warhead near enough to the target to destroy it, the PAC-3 uses a hit-to-kill strategy. |
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The challenge is to hit a small unpredictable warhead whizzing through the upper atmosphere at 10 times the speed of sound. |
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That about a kilo is at issue in Moldova makes talk of a warhead far off, but it is hardly harmless. |
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Bruce Bennett of the RAND Corporation, a think-tank, has tried to quantify the horror of a ten-kiloton warhead exploding in Seoul. |
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They appear to have a program to design a warhead that would fit on that missile. |
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In the worst-case scenario, locks help to 'buy time' to recover the warhead. |
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With a longer range, larger warhead, and fragmentation on impact, a Grad rocket can cause greater damage and loss of life and injury. |
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After several unsuccessful flight tests, it was determined that the missile should have a separating warhead. |
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The Shahab 3 is capable of carrying a nuclear warhead and has a 1,300-kilometer range. |
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The question of the warhead was also crucial when it came to analysing the risks and threats. |
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In 2001 it test-fired a new missile with 300 km-range and 500 kg warhead known as improved ground-to-ground missile Hyonmu. |
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The warhead would be strung on a line clamped between each of the unfortunate target vessel's bilge keels, with a timer set to detonate after two hours. |
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But he said the process of disarming a chemical warhead or artillery shell is more complicated. |
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Capability is a mushy line, and it can take a country years to go from capability to producing an actual warhead. |
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As the missile closes on its target the warhead explodes before the missile strikes the airplane. |
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Those teams would try to dispose of the stocks of chemical agent before they were poured into a warhead or artillery shell. |
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In strategic terms, the most valuable kind of nuclear warhead is that launched from a submarine, as they are the hardest to locate and destroy before they're launched at you. |
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Moreover, the Reliable Replacement Warhead will help reduce the risk that the United States might at some point need to resume nuclear testing in order to identify or fix a warhead problem. |
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But the SA-11 is a member of a class of weapon that carries a fragmenting warhead with a proximity fuze. |
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The current plan to reduce warhead stockpiles to fewer than 1,500 should, in our view, be followed by further reductions of all nuclear-weapon types. |
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Before being able to use them, Tehran would have to design an appropriate warhead and also make modifications to launch from another launching platform. |
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An RPG warhead may eject a copper spike weighing several hundred grams. |
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The United States has also stepped up the pace of warhead elimination. |
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The W-56 warhead in the lower left-hand corner is completely disassembled. |
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These parameters corresponded to the perceived minimum weight of a nuclear warhead, and to the strategic distances in the most compact theatres where nuclear-armed missiles might be used. |
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But most important, the Hercules carried a nuclear warhead. |
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Projectile for load by the month: Peeters type, with expansion, of cylindro-ogival form with two grooves for the grease inside concave, in which one finds a small warhead in central position. |
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The target was then detected using an active RF proximity fuze that determined the optimal detonation time for the warhead. |
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In order to create a nuclear weapon, Iran would need to convert highly enriched uranium into a metal sphere and make a detonator small enough to fit in the warhead of a ballistic missile. |
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One was a shredding pattern associated with a warhead packed with flechettes. |
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The United States cancelled a number of its warhead development programmes at the end of the cold war, including the W-89 and W-91 nuclear missile warheads and the B-90 nuclear bomb. |
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Articles consisting of a rocket motor and a warhead without means of initiation or with means of initiation containing two or more effective protective features. |
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When replaced by the Chevaline warhead, the sum total of deployed RVs and warheads was reduced to three boatloads. |
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They are much harder to detect and sweep, and can carry a much larger warhead than a moored mine. |
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These are mines containing a moving weapon as a warhead, either a torpedo or a rocket. |
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The mine weighs 990 kilograms and contains a 600 kilogram aluminised PBX explosive warhead. |
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Another source claims the range of Sagarika between 700-1,500 kms and is capable of carrying up to 1000kg warhead. |
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The United States, Russia, Britain and France could help greatly by transitioning from their multiple warhead weapons. |
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Launched from a HIMARS mobile launcher, the GMLRS rocket flew 35 kilometers to the target, where the warhead detonated. |
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After 1962, with their RPG-7, they combined recoilless launch with a rocket sustainer to deliver a five-pound warhead to targets beyond 500 yards. |
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Fourthly, it is a recognized fact that the transparency of thousands of conventional weapons is not comparable with the transparency of the existence or non-existence of a single nuclear warhead. |
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It also set out the information it had about activities with a possible military dimension, including activities associated with the design of a nuclear warhead. |
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The impact causes the warhead to combust before it hits the armour. |
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Result: China, experiencing difficulties and uncertainties about its nuclear warhead modernization programme, decides to seize the political opportunity and follow the United States. |
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The documents detailed Iran's efforts to develop a nuclear warhead, including designs for a missile re-entry vehicle, and showed other possible undeclared activities with nuclear material. |
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Each party was to reduce its strategic nuclear warhead holdings to 3,000 to 3,500, of which no more than 1,700 to 1,750 could be deployed on submarinelaunched ballistic missiles. |
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The appalling human cost of a single nuclear warhead falling on an American city, even if hundreds of others are successfully intercepted, is too awful to contemplate. |
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As in the case of conventionally armed ballistic missiles, the capability for an ASAT attack with a nuclear warhead exists as long as nuclear warheads and ballistic missile arsenals are maintained. |
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Its warhead would be the same copper submunitions used by the Air Force in the so-called Sensor Fuzed Weapon. |
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While there are no plans to put nuclear warhead ballistic missiles on these constructions, it seems nevertheless that they have been equipped with 4 650mm tubes that could fire the Popeye Turbo cruise missile. |
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The reason for this was that if the bombers came down in waves then a small nuclear warhead could shoot down 30 or 40 bombers rather than trying to bring them down individually. |
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These spin to maintain the fantastic accuracy required to destroy hardened targets, such as missile silos, with a modest thermonuclear warhead yield. |
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It is not to assuage worries that a missile visibly readied for a test flight mightwho knows-be equipped with something other than a dummy warhead, whether nuclear or not. |
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In a future verification regime for nuclear warhead dismantlement, inspecting parties are likely to request access to highly sensitive facilities and weapon components. |
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A study carried out at Caltech found that unlike a conventional warhead, which flattens into a blunt mushroom-shape on impact, the sides of a metallic-glass projectile sheer off, in effect making it even sharper. |
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Until today such an option was a taboo subject among US government officials and their British counterparts, who have insisted Iran would be ultimately stopped from constructing a warhead. |
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Furthermore, we need also to seek ways to strengthen transparency concerning nuclear warhead stockpiles, disarmament implementation, and so forth. |
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Dramatic reductions are in fact under way in strategic warhead numbers. |
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Because of the larger amount of nuclear material consumed by MRVs and MIRVs, single warhead missiles are more attractive for nations with less advanced technology. |
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Under the terms of the contract, the EMD phase of the program runs 36 months, focusing on system performance, warhead qualification and producibility. |
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The new DF-41 missile of China will use multiple warhead capabilities as the longest-range intercontinental ballistic missile, reported Free Beacon. |
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The second conventional warhead version is a fragmentation version that would disperse thousands of tungsten rods which could obliterate an area of 3000 square feet. |
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Such mines incorporate electronic sensors designed to detect the presence of a vessel and detonate when it comes within the blast range of the warhead. |
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Strela 2M is a man-portable, shoulder-fired, low-altitude surface-to-air missile system with a high explosive warhead and passive infrared homing guidance. |
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Work on its W47 nuclear warhead began in 1957 at the facility that is now called the Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory by a team headed by John Foster and Harold Brown. |
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