Iranian navy's largest ship SINKS in the Gulf of Oman after fire breaks out
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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.