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That portion of a greater whole which is distinct from the packaging required to transport it. The payload is thus the part of an object which is intended to generate some form of gain - in the simplest case, payment. Military payloads rarely produce direct fiscal remuneration; the gain anticipated is typically a strategic advantage or tactical victory. Wikipedia does not have an article with this exact name. ... Wiktionary (a portmanteau of wiki and dictionary) is a multilingual, Web-based project to create a free content dictionary, available in over 150 languages. ... A payment is the act of transfering wealth into another person or company. ... A strategy is a long term plan of action designed to achieve a particular goal, most often winning. Strategy is differentiated from tactics or immediate actions with resources at hand by its nature of being extensively premeditated, and often practically rehearsed. ... Tactics is the collective name for methods of winning a small-scale conflict, performing an optimization, etc. ...

Payload may refer to:

• Cargo, goods or produce being delivered or transported
• Payload (air and space craft), the net carrying capacity of an aircraft or spacecraft (as distinct from throw weight)
• Warhead, a payload composed of explosive materials and a detonator delivered by a missile, rocket, or torpedo
• Payload (software), a computer program delivered by encapsulation, such as a virus carried in an electronic mail message
• Payload (communication and information technology), the part of a data stream representing the user information and user overhead.

Payload may also refer to: This article is about transported goods. ... In military aircraft or space exploration, the payload is the carrying capacity of an aircraft or space ship, including as cargo, munitions, scientific instruments or experiments, or external fuel, although internal fuel is usually not included. ... Throw-weight is a measure of the effective weight of ballistic missile payloads. ... A B61 nuclear bomb in various stages of assembly; the nuclear warhead is the bullet-shaped silver cannister in the middle-left of the photograph. ... A computer virus is a computer program that can copy itself and infect a computer without permission or knowledge of the user. ... Electronic mail, abbreviated e-mail or email, is a method of composing, sending, and receiving messages over electronic communication systems. ... In communication, telecommunications and information science, the payload or mission bit stream is the data, such as a data field, block, or stream, being processed or transported — the part that represents user information and user overhead information. ...

• Payload (Transformers) - a fictional character.

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