Airbursts

It described airbursts over Vicksburg in the summer of 1863, and a family of Negroes and one of poor whites trying to take cover in a cave they had dug in the bluffs with barrel staves. ❋ James Lee Burke (2010)

Improved accuracy now allows war planners to target hardened sites with low-yield warheads and even airbursts. ❋ Unknown (2007)

When the marines were out of ammunition, Hackberry remembered the great silence that followed and the hissing of shrapnel from airbursts in the snow and then the bugles blowing again. ❋ James Lee Burke (2009)

And, in the same action, Israel committed the war crime of using airbursts of white phosphorous above civilian areas. ❋ Unknown (2009)

You see it on your monitor, replacing the tower shots and airbursts, the detonations of high-yield devices set on barges or dangled from balloons, replacing the comprehensive text displays that accompany the bombs. ❋ Don Delillo (2008)

This sounds like data from an early warning satellite as these have yielded precise measurements of such non-predicted airbursts before. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The thermal pulse and blast from the airbursts finish most things, and the fallout from ground bursts against buried targets will kill the rest. ❋ Unknown (2005)

The tanks then skipped fuse-delay shells above the hedgerow, causing airbursts, and fired machine guns. ❋ Yeide, Harry (2003)

The tanks would advance rapidly under the airbursts, smashing hedges and uprooting enemy emplacements in the zone of action, at the same time placing a maximum amount of direct cannon and machine-gun fire on the enemy. ❋ Yeide, Harry (2003)

American tankers could not refuel Russian aircraft, but to everyone's relief the nozzles for ground fueling were identical, and so the American aircraft could make use of the jet fuel from the Russian JP storage tanks, which, they found, were huge, and mainly underground to be protected against nuclear airbursts. ❋ Clancy, Tom, 1947- (2000)

Target analysts favor airbursts and using large yields. ❋ United States Army (1998)