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