OWL. Orbital Weapons Lancet. Nicknamed ‘rods from god’. Titanium rod as big as a telephone pole dropped from low orbit. The lancet gains speed as it drops from space. By the time it hits the ground its going fast enough, with enough kinetic energy to penetrate deep enough, with enough force to destroy half of any major city. No chemical or nuclear explosives … just a dart to the earths face.
Kinetic Weapons. Depending precisely on size. And location your hitting.
You could do damage akin to a low-yield Nuclear strike without any of the side effects.
Not to mention the networks of satellites that make the Modern World including Modern War as we know it possible.
OWL. Orbital Weapons Lancet. Nicknamed ‘rods from god’. Titanium rod as big as a telephone pole dropped from low orbit. The lancet gains speed as it drops from space. By the time it hits the ground its going fast enough, with enough kinetic energy to penetrate deep enough, with enough force to destroy half of any major city. No chemical or nuclear explosives … just a dart to the earths face.
I seem to remember speculation of the Chinese harbor that blew sky high several years ago being caused by a "rod from God'.