What if Rods from the Gods are housed in fake missile bodies and are jet-propelled such that that the ‘kinetic’ - remember, that buzzword was everywhere during zero’s reign of terror - impact footprint is relatively tiny but disastrous to the target and the 100sft perimeter?
You fake out the enemy thinking some ungodly TNT is incoming based on the capsule size but really it’s just pinpoint pinpricks?
F = M × A.
Rods the size of conventional hypersonic missiles are too small to be of such destructive force.