How To Use Airburst In A Sentence
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‘An airburst would be a blast somewhere in the region of 500-600 megatons,’ Bland said in an e-mail interview.
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Thirty miles from the targets, they began seeing the airbursts of radar-controlled antiaircraft artillery.
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What happens when an airburst nuke takes out all my computers?
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Objects 50 meters across strike Earth every few centuries, causing airbursts that rival the effects of large thermonuclear bombs.
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Its airburst destroyed the communications array but not the building.
Times, Sunday Times
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Before 1914 artillery shells had consisted mainly of shrapnel, whose airbursts were effective in mobile warfare.
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You can't survive an airburst by ducking under a dashboard.
Times, Sunday Times
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The climax, a man who is going to explode is carried off into the air by his brother… did anybody bother to compare the effects of a groundburst with an airburst nuclear explosion?
‘A writer friend of mine visited Ground Zero not long afterwards and said he expected to see the alien monster climb out of the pit’ « Gerry Canavan
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Once set off, they will shoot into the air, pop once, twice, thrice, and shower the old people and children below with an airburst of hot embers.
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Increased knowledge of the behavior of airbursts has led to a better understanding of mysterious aerial explosions that occur frequently on Earth.
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Before 1914 artillery shells had consisted mainly of shrapnel, whose airbursts were effective in mobile warfare.
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I should note that what's important here is the general principle, not the exact numbers, because the equation I'm using was developed for nuclear airbursts.
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Gamma radiation from an airburst will cause death to people caught in the open to a distance of about 1,400 yards.
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Yes, they fail too, but you can often retrieve your data, and the chance that both my computer and my exterior hard drive will fail simultaneously is rather rare, unless a nuclear airburst wipes all electronics out.
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Most of the shells landed in soft snow and were duds; only those that struck rock or ice would detonate - unless they were airburst shells, which have fuses timed to explode before they hit the ground.
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An airburst of this size occurs roughly once per decade.
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The Holy Ghost moves as a choral whisper over the waters, before light blazes forth like the airburst of an atomic explosion: terribly beautiful.
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My guess is that we'd probably survive an airburst, if it were to happen.
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These dastardly bombs contain coils of metal that fragment when the core charge detonates, usually in an airburst that showers people below with shrapnel.
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Most of the shells landed in soft snow and were duds; only those that struck rock or ice would detonate - unless they were airburst shells, which have fuses timed to explode before they hit 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.
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Instead they found a circular patch of badly charred and flattened trees 60 kilometres across, formed by the airburst as the rock disintegrated explosively due to the huge stresses caused by entry into the atmosphere.
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The heat and concussive force of the airbursts produced the expected results, instantly engulfing the rebel base in an apocalyptic conflagration.
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It's the size of the fire created by a one megaton airburst.