| 31. | With surface and near-surface air bursts, the amount of debris lofted into the air decreases rapidly with increasing burst altitude.
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| 32. | The 3P round will provide air burst capability and the APFSDS-T Mk II can penetrate in excess of 150mm armor.
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| 33. | Two final air burst tests on September 2 and September 11, 1958, dropped smaller bombs that yielded around 1 megaton each.
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| 34. | Moreover, the relatively high clearance between the truck and the ground gave it the more lethal characteristics of an air burst.
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| 35. | A nuclear weapon detonated in the air, called an air burst, produces less fallout than a comparable explosion near the ground.
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| 36. | Over the target the engine would cut out and the missile would free-fall before detonating its warhead as an air burst.
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| 37. | The Australians responded with air burst fire from their 84 mm Carl Gustav rocket launchers, yet this proved only partially effective.
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| 38. | These tests were concurrent with the RaLa tests, and their aim was development of airborne detectors for tracking air burst nuclear tests.
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| 39. | An open-air burst of 2, 200 pounds of sarin has the potential to kill 10, 000 people, according to a Pentagon estimate.
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| 40. | A ground burst of a nuclear weapon creates considerably more local deposited fallout than the air bursts used at Hiroshima or Nagasaki.
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