Iranian navy's largest ship SINKS in the Gulf of Oman after fire breaks out
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I think you are implying that rod of god has to do with shooting some actual object from orbit towards a target?
From what I understand its a directed energy weapon. You do not need anything to be physically shot out of orbit.
Two different weapons. Rods from God are (conjectured) tungsten poles which are shot or dropped from orbit. Tungsten is very dense and has a high melting point so they would survive the reentry and absolutely obliterate the relatively small spot they hit. Directed energy would be like a heat ray in old sci fi movies.
G R A V I T Y .
Except as I stated they can not be dropped. They are already in free fall in orbit.
Yes, that was a nice analysis. Math ftw. However, I think just dropping a big dense spike would be very destructive, just not the guided meteorite level destructive (which I think might turn out to not be such a good idea).
Fuck yeah, imagine hoiking it out in a parabola to the very edge of earth capture and having it just pick up speed all the way back and come in at 90 deg. Stand back.