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In the event of a swarm attack, this warhead can take it out with an airburst of shrapnel.—New Atlas, 13 Sep. 2025 The turret supports programmable airburst ammunition, enabling the Condor to engage drones and aircraft.—Aamir Khollam, Interesting Engineering, 26 Aug. 2025 The airburst arrived almost a minute and a half after the tremor.—Charles Pellegrino, Rolling Stone, 6 Aug. 2025 Lunsford noted that a particularly large meteor that some scientists believe to be associated with the annual shower detonated in a powerful airburst 6 miles (9.6 kilometers) over Russian Siberia in June 1908.—Anthony Wood, Space.com, 27 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for airburst
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