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Definition of Airburst
1. Noun. An explosion in the atmosphere.
Definition of Airburst
1. Noun. The explosion of a bomb or similar weapon in the air rather than on the ground. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Airburst
1. an explosion in the air [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Airburst
Literary usage of Airburst
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Medical Implications of Nuclear War by Frederic Solomon (1986)
"Figure 24 shows the range dependence of the government's probability of injury
assumptions for a 1-Mt airburst. At selected ranges below the horizontal axis ..."
2. The Military Dictionary (1987)
"Any type command may have a flagship, tender, and aircraft assigned toit type
load—See standard load. types of burst—See airburst; fallout safe height of ..."
3. Operation Desert Storm: Evaluation of the Air Campaign by Kwai-Cheung Chan (1997)
"Of the 260 TLAM Cs and D-Is that transitioned to cruise flight, 30 were TLAM Cs
with "programmed warhead detonation"—airburst mode—that created damage ..."
4. Effects of Nuclear Earth-penetrator And Other Weapons by Nas (2005)
"... burst; (2) a low-altitude (below the fallout-free limit) airburst; (3) an
airburst at the fallout-free height of burst; and (4) a subsurface burst. ..."
5. C3I: Issues of Command & Control edited by Thomas P. Coakley (1994)
"What happens when an airburst is 150 kilometers high, for instance? What kinds
of things are going to go wrong with ..."
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