Trump is NOT threatening nuclear war with North Korea. He is talking about this non-nuclear but incredibly powerful weapon!
RODS FROM GOD AKA KINETIC BOMBARDMENT IN ACTION (FICTIONAL)
Donald Trump's warning to North Korea. Notice he is talking about a weapon that produces "Fire and Fury like the world has never seen".
Kinetic bombardment
A kinetic bombardment or a kinetic orbital strike is the hypothetical act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert projectile, where the destructive force comes from the kinetic energy of the projectile impacting at very high velocities. The concept originated during the Cold War.
The typical depiction of the tactic is of a satellite containing a magazine of tungsten rods and a directional thrust system. When a strike is ordered, the satellite would brake[1] one of the rods out of its orbit and into a suborbital trajectory that intersects the target. As the rod approaches periapsis and the target due to gravity, it picks up immense speed until it begins decelerating in the atmosphere and reaches terminal velocity shortly before impact. The rods would typically be shaped to minimize air resistance and maximize terminal velocity. In science fiction, the weapon is often depicted as being launched from a spaceship, instead of a satellite.
Kinetic bombardment has the advantage of being able to deliver projectiles from a very high angle at a very high speed, making them extremely difficult to defend against. In addition, projectiles would not require explosive warheads, and—in the simplest designs—would consist entirely of solid metal rods, giving rise to the common nickname "Rods from God".[2] Disadvantages include the technical difficulties of ensuring accuracy and the prohibitively high costs of positioning ammunition in orbit.
The Outer Space Treaty is designed to prohibit weapons of mass destruction in orbit or outer space; however, its text only prohibits nuclear, biological, and chemical weapons. Since the most common form of kinetic ammunition is inert tungsten rods, in most cases, kinetic bombardment is not prohibited by the treaty.
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Nice post like it
It's happening... :(
I heard a volume about the size of a basketball would destroy a something the size of a housing block. So the movie scene is pretty overdone. It seems to uproot dozens of meters of the top of the surface, Thames included. Yeah sure, it's a movie, I get it.
More effective was what they deployed to turn the WTC towers into dust. No projectiles, but frequencies I guess, directed in a beam. A directed energy weapon, vibrating at just the right frequency to cause molecular disassociation.
The movie is obviously exagerated but it's been 50 years since Nuclear bombs were invented. Who knows what secret technologies (non nuclear) exist now?
Sure, the Nazis were already working on something called "Die Glocke" or The Bell. And the funny thing was it had the highest possible classification of secrecy "Kriegsentscheidend", (ie: Decisive for the outcome of the war), the information related to nuclear weapons was just top secret.
Some say this other thing might make a hydrogen bomb look like a firecracker in comparison.
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