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To: Joe Boucher

You would be astonished to know how early (decades ago) this was reviewed/considered. Long before the treaty outlawing warfare in space we were considering a titanium rod which would be spun up and ejected to any target on earth.


22 posted on 05/12/2019 8:58:15 AM PDT by Portcall24
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To: Portcall24

There is a very large and very classified group of researchers working to figure out how every new invention can be turned into a weapon of some kind. I have seen tungsten rods dropped from space — last I knew they were not very accurate. But these hellfire based missiles have guidance systems so they literally can hit a spot on the vehicle. The other thing we do is add kinetic energy by flying into the target and we can have a large range of explosives varying to no explosive at all. It all depends on the mission. Needless to say, there are some places where this is exactly what you want.


27 posted on 05/12/2019 9:46:10 AM PDT by KC_for_Freedom (retired aerospace engineer and CSP who also taught)
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To: Portcall24

Tungsten. Titanium density (kinetic energy) is too low.


39 posted on 05/12/2019 12:07:36 PM PDT by TXnMA (Truman: "The Buck Stops Here." | 0b0z0: "The Chain Gang Begins Here!")
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