Usually means: Maximum payload missile can deliver.
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  1. throw-weight: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  2. throw-weight: Vocabulary.com
  3. throw-weight: Wordnik
  4. throw-weight: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  5. throw-weight: Dictionary.com
  6. Throw-weight: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  7. throw-weight: Rhymezone
  8. throw-weight: FreeDictionary.org
  9. throw-weight: Mnemonic Dictionary
  10. throw-weight: TheFreeDictionary.com
  11. throw-weight: Wiktionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (throw-weight)

noun:  (military) A measure of the effective weight of ballistic missile payloads, given in kilograms or tonnes.
noun:  (military, nautical) A measure of the total weight of projectiles that can be delivered by a single broadside.

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