Sentence examples for air burst from inspiring English sources

Both Fat man and Little boy were air burst bombs.

You can't survive an air burst by ducking under a dashboard.

Meanwhile the Australian SASR point man can call in a devastating air burst mortar strike.

At the centre of the controversy is the way white phosphorus air burst shells have been used in heavily built-up urban areas, with an overwhelmingly civilian population.

It is highly incendiary, air burst and its spread effect is such that it that should never be used on civilian areas".

The explosion occurred on 15 February this year when the asteroid, which entered the Earth's atmosphere travelling at 50 times the speed of sound, exploded in an air burst above the southern Ural region of Russia.

Thus, air bursts of the warheads were feasible at different ranges.

At the celebrations in Bangalore they were tossing activists in the air, bursting confetti and balloons.

"The Trinity site gives us a way to study air bursts," Hermes said.

Phase 1 dealt with proof of concept, essentially trying to prove the theory behind air bursting technology.

JUST as a balloon filled gradually with air bursts when the limit of its tensile strength is passed, there are thresholds of radical, disruptive change in politics.