What is "airburst"

Usage examples of "airburst".

Four men with Bull Pups aimed the 20mm lasered airburst rounds at the muzzle flashes in the darkness.

Now, in the daylight, he fired at the snag, and marveled at the way the rounds either hit close to it or did an airburst with the laser sighting.

The airburst shattered a whole section of cut branches shielding the opening.

An irregular circle of alfalfa beneath the airburst flattened, ripped by the shredded iron of the shell casing.

An airburst could turn an open trench into an abattoir, and guns and dogs were even more vulnerable.

He lasered the troops, fired an airburst, and cut down six of the eight men with the shattering 20mm round.

The twenties come in HE, armor-piercing, and smoke, and any of them can be detonated as an airburst up to about a mile.

This time the airburst was close enough to send the rig spinning off the road and crashing into the shallow ditch.

He waited a second, then two, and saw his round airburst somewhere near the flare.

Only four of them kept moving after the airburst that sprayed them with deadly shrapnel.

The special rounds had dispersed airburst aerosols that congealed into vast translucent sheets.

She set her grenades for minimum range, airburst, and fired three down the center.

Her weapon had been set to minimum airburst when the EMP hit them, but it had defaulted to contact fusing.

Our only practical experience comes from the primitive bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, that ludicrous Pakistani explosion and the single airburst that destroyed Porto Alegre and terminated the incident between Brazil and Argentina.

An airburst caught the plane and threw it into the trees with the crew already dead from the rad burst.