- low-yield warhead
- (ядерная) БЧ малой мощности
English-Russian military dictionary. 2014.
English-Russian military dictionary. 2014.
W25 (nuclear warhead) — The W25 was a small nuclear warhead developed by the United States Air Force and Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory for air defense use. It was a fission device with a nominal yield of 1.7 kT. Development of the weapon began in 1954 at the behest… … Wikipedia
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nuclear weapon — an explosive device whose destructive potential derives from the release of energy that accompanies the splitting or combining of atomic nuclei. [1945 50] * * * or atomic weapon or thermonuclear weapon Bomb or other warhead that derives its force … Universalium
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