An air burst or airburst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an anti-personnel artillery shell or a nuclear weapon in the air instead of...

A meteor air burst is a type of air burst in which a meteoroid explodes after entering a planetary body's atmosphere. This fate leads them to be called...

ammunition, typically a shell or grenade, that detonates in midair, causing air burst effect fragment damage to enemy personnel or aircraft (notably comparably...

people may have died. The explosion is generally attributed to a meteor air burst, the atmospheric explosion of a stony asteroid about 50–60 metres (160–200...

the Earth's surface directly below a nuclear explosion, meteor air burst, or other mid-air explosion. In seismology, the hypocenter of an earthquake is...

hygiene. Chemical drain cleaners, plungers, handheld drain augers, and air burst drain cleaners are typically applied to the problem of a clogged single...

heat burst is a rare atmospheric phenomenon characterized by a sudden, localized increase in air temperature near the Earth's surface. Heat bursts typically...

Generation Combat Vehicle, the XM30 MICV. The XM1204 High Explosive Air Bursting with Trace round is programmable. The gunner can select from three detonation...

30 feet (9.1 m) above the ground. These air-bursts are much more lethal against personnel than ground bursts because they deliver a greater proportion...

surroundings. The environment of the explosion (e.g. submarine, ground burst, air burst, or exo-atmospheric) determines how much energy is distributed to the...

strengthen the forward end of the rocket cladding – reduced the likelihood of air bursts.: 100 : 188–198  On 27 March 1942, Dornberger proposed production plans...

also known as a self-propelled anti-aircraft gun (SPAAG) or self-propelled air defense system (SPAD), is a mobile vehicle with a dedicated anti-aircraft...

... the deposition of early fallout from an air burst will generally not be significant. An air burst, however, may produce some induced radioactive...

Burst of Joy is a Pulitzer Prize-winning photograph by Associated Press photographer Slava "Sal" Veder, taken on March 17, 1973, at Travis Air Force Base...

paper claiming that Tell el-Hammam was destroyed cataclysmically by an air burst. Two-thirds of the authors are members of the Comet Research Group, which...

feeling intense heat from the fireball. The object exploded in a meteor air burst over Chelyabinsk Oblast, at a height of about 29.7 km (18.5 mi; 97,000 ft)...

their targets. The MOAB is not a penetrator weapon and is primarily an air burst bomb intended for soft to medium surface targets covering extended areas...

also be used to mean a fireball that is audible. Selected superbolide air bursts: Tunguska event (Russia, 1908) 2009 Sulawesi superbolide (Indonesia, 2009)...

time. To be a true air burst with no local fallout, the Trinity height-of-burst needed to be 580 feet (180 m). With an air burst, the radioactive fission...

weapon is set to air burst fuzing. When a nuclear attack is planned, the planner has the option of deciding if either air burst or ground burst fuzing will...

A ground burst is the detonation of an explosive device such as an artillery shell, nuclear weapon or air-dropped bomb that explodes at ground level. These...

the detonation of a weapon at or above the fallout-free altitude (an air burst), fission products, un-fissioned nuclear material, and weapon residues...

impact-detonating fuzes or remote-set multi-option fuzes. Cargo warheads with air burst-range, with settable fuzes using the "wall-in-space" concept or fixed...

fuze with an altimeter to cause an air burst at the desired altitude, and a proximity fuze to cause an air burst at a specific distance from the ground...

Bombs Bursting in Air and similar phrases could refer to: "...Bombs Bursting in Air... ", a phrase from the national anthem of the United States, "The...

of the year. Not only does the fuze burst over walls, but it can detonate when passing cover like trees, bursting just as it senses and passes the trunk...

The S&T Daewoo K11 DAW (Dual-barrel Air-burst Weapon) is a multi-weapon resembling the earlier US Objective Individual Combat Weapon in concept, design...

feed ammunition system. The 30 mm chain gun can fire Mk310 Programmable Air Burst Munition rounds to attack targets in defilade. The United States Army...

delayed ground burst (laydown), retarded air burst, free-fall air burst and free-fall contact burst fuzing. The selection of air or contact burst would be selected...

and near-surface air bursts, the amount of debris lofted into the air decreases rapidly with increasing burst altitude. At a burst altitude of approximately...