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What is an airburst?

What is an airburst? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The explosion of a bomb or similar weapon in the air rather than on the ground.
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After firing just a few digitally generated rounds I was able to rapidly laser range a target and take it out with an airburst.
Earlier this year, on the chilly morning of February 15th, a thirteen-thousand-ton meteor screamed above the Ural Mountains before exploding in an airburst seventy-six-thousand feet above Chelyabinsk, Russia.
The melt material also matches melt-glass produced by the Trinity nuclear airburst of 1945 in Socorro, New Mexico.
The AASM-1000 is under development, as are new features such as airburst and data link.
Gamma radiation from an airburst will cause death to people caught in the open to a distance of about 1,400 yards.
If the fission explosion is an airburst, the residual radiation will come mainly from the weapon debris.

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