Talk:Air burst

meteorite airburst?
Need some info in meteorite airbursts - like in the Tunguska blast. Fresheneesz 09:11, 18 December 2006 (UTC)
 * Space rocks get shredded by the heat/pressure of friction in the atmosphere. The exponential density change from Space to the atmosphere is like firing bullets into water.

B-Class Review
To-do list to B-Class: Flubeca 16:06, 7 April 2007 (UTC)
 * Put Citations
 * Add Images
 * Format Page
 * Expand Article
 * Fix Grammar

Revision needed
Not sure that the subject warrants an article to itself, but if it does, it needs significant improvement. The detailed discussion of shrapnel does not really belong here, although it undoubtedly needs mentioning, and more technical desriptions of the various timing/proximity mechanisms is needed. Anti-aircraft shells should not be neglected if we thingk the scope of the article covers them.

The article makes the point that shell splinters are not technically "shrapnel", which is historically true, but the usage has become so universal that as a matter of English language the point can no longer be argued. The article itself goes on to use the word in the sence of fragments. ut the article also makes the common mistake of assuming that artillery casualties are all caused by shrapnel/fragments - blast alone does serious damage to people. Cyclopaedic (talk) 21:57, 23 November 2007 (UTC)

Add a section for Natural Air Burst
Event examples and explain why it occurs.

PS: Why meteor explodes? There are influence of blast wave reflecting or not?

— Preceding unsigned comment added by 201.52.148.69 (talk) 11:42, 20 February 2013 (UTC)

Air burst vs. Airburst
I came to this article in order to determine if 'air burst' is one word, two words, or a hypehend word (air-burst). This information is not contained in the article. The title uses two words, but there are a few instances of the single-word version as well. Both seem prevalent and I am not sure if there is a consensus. I'd like a single word version, but what I want is what is correct/accepted. I think a short section discussing this issue would be useful to this page (at least for me). Leftynm (talk) 18:27, 14 October 2014 (UTC)

Merge Killer Junior into Air burst
Reading Killer Junior it seems like just a term/code word for air burst. Propose adding a "Killer Junior" section - MTWEmperor (talk • contribs) 21:42, 10 April 2019 (UTC)


 * Support merge Two names for the same basic thing. Best to consolidate and combine... Veryproicelandic (talk) 11:04, 2 June 2019 (UTC)
 * Oppose Although one is an example of the other, that doesn't mean they're the same thing.  Killer (Junior and Senior) have a history in Vietnam that's worth recording. Mostly though, airburst is already a confused article, with huge scope and little content. Our goal should be to fix that before removing any other articles. Andy Dingley (talk) 09:55, 25 March 2020 (UTC)
 * Support merge, on the grounds that the content in Killer Junior will improve that Air burst, which as Andy Dingley points out is in need of improvement. I agree with Andy, though, that it is a distinct subtopic and needs its own section on that page. There is no policy that target pages need to improved to some particular standard before any merge can occur. The reasons for the merge are therefore Overlap, Short text and Context (but not Duplicate). Klbrain (talk) 05:18, 5 April 2020 (UTC)
 * ✅ Klbrain (talk) 20:20, 19 June 2020 (UTC)