>>314853880Holy shit CoD kiddies get the fuck out of here
Orbital kinetic weapons are not that powerful
You are grossly overestimating it's abilities.
You can't just shoot down an in-flight ICBM; do you even know how fucking fast those get going? That's like trying to shoot a penny from 100ft away while it's being thrown.
You can't deliver a payload anywhere to the planet in a minute, the launch platform has to change it's orbit to be in line with whatever the target is.
>90x more powerful than a nukegiven the prohibitively high cost of putting the rods (9 tons each) into orbit, if this were true, every capable nation would have these in orbit, because 90x the power of little boy is 1.62 megatons. 1.62 megatons of conventional weaponry, because inert tungsten rods don't count as WMDs. This doesn't violate the Outer Space Treaty
If this was true, if all of this was true, I fucking guarantee that Russia and the USA would have replaced their nuclear arsenals with these things.
In actuality, these things only have a yield of .12 kt. That's tiny. It's far easier to just use a missile or something far less expensive.
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