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To: wardaddy
Space is the high ground, all you have to do is throw (cheap) rocks (accurately) from orbit and you are (temporarily) king of the world. The bigger the target the bigger the rock you throw. Kinetic energy is hard to beat.
35 posted on 06/21/2016 7:07:06 AM PDT by jpsb (Never believe anything in politics until it has been officially denied. Otto von Bismark)
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To: jpsb

Lazy Dog from space

I was referring to EM RAIL

projected shortly to hurl non explosive 200 pound projectiles one after another at Mach 10

that’s just unfathomable


37 posted on 06/21/2016 8:07:57 AM PDT by wardaddy (No wobbly Donald....full steam ahead)
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