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Examples
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The gunners in the audience could probably do better than that, but it's a close enough ballparking - or airbursting?
Despicable 2008
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The 12-pound, 29-inch XM-25 can fire 25mm airbursting rounds up to 500 meters (546 yards) for a precision target and 700 meters (765 yards) when firing on an area.
CNET News.com 2011
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The XM-25, which fires a 25mm airbursting, high-explosive round, packs a whole lot of smarts to go with its punch.
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The XM-25, which fires a 25mm airbursting, high-explosive round, packs a whole lot of smarts to go with its punch.
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In terms of planetary defense and mitigation efforts, Boslough advised focusing more attention on small airbursting objects, with "mitigation being a form of civil defense."
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The XM-25, which fires a 25mm airbursting, high-explosive round, packs a whole lot of smarts to go with its punch.
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When an airbursting asteroid, called a bolide, exploded over an island region of Indonesia late last year, it rocked the residents' world with an estimated energy release of about 50
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To fire an airbursting round, the soldier paints the target - or the wall or berm in front of the target - with the laser rangefinder.
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To fire an airbursting round, the soldier paints the target - or the wall or berm in front of the target - with the laser rangefinder.
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One of the major things the Indians want to build is a domestically produced multi-caliber individual weapon and a programmable airbursting grenade launcher for the infantry.
StrategyPage.com 2009
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