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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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It's the size of the fire created by a one megaton 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.
My guess is that we'd probably survive an airburst, if it were to happen.
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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