airburst

Some think it was caused by the airburst of an asteroid a few miles above the earth.

But it was the perfect place for an airburst.

Just a small airburst in the troposphere, about two miles above the city.

The next shell was an airburst, a little off-center and a bit high up.

Each airburst meant one less parcel of death for those in the trenches below.

There was a white airburst inside her eyes, and what it left behind was a big dark hole.

An airburst grenade had an even greater kill zone.

They did not disperse their chemical or biological agents in an airburst.

Low airburst, typically about 10 metres, was used with HE.

Bell developed two complete fuzing systems, airburst or surface burst.

They needed somewhere quiet to practice their airburst.

Both base and nose ejection are almost always used with airburst fuzes.

The missiles detonated simultaneously, several in airburst and at least two burrowing.

The larger calibers of anti-aircraft artillery are almost always used airburst.

He must have been caught within the line-of-sight of a nuclear airburst, at a range short enough to cause those burns.

So now - ' Thunder exploded like an airburst mortar shell above us.

Moreover, the relatively high clearance between the truck and the ground gave it the more lethal characteristics of an airburst.

The fallout isn't going to be that bad, especially if we can use an airburst, which will be hard because of their defenses.

The early versions were often limited to proximity airburst, albeit with height of burst options, and impact.

Airburst (In front of or over aiming point)

This is especially important with airburst nuclear weapons, and in situations where the aircraft releases a bomb at low altitude.

Tunguska was a 15-Mton airburst at an altitude of roughly a scale height.

"I want one round, at optimum airburst, right over Balsam Gap."

An airburst would have been similar to but orders of magnitude larger than the Tunguska event of 1908.

There was an airburst of pain inside her skull and her vision went wavery.