Doesn’t have to be tungsten but I was also thinking of what is happening to the steel casing of heavy wall drill stand if its on a re-entry and facing extreme temperatures.
Might be better if they had a 1” thick ablative silica sleeve identical to the space shuttle tiles. Like a protective blanket and some stabilizing fins these orbital darts so to speak will be impacting at lets figuratively say Mach 6.
With a dense inner core of a tough super hard metal this would and should act the same as a Abrams penetration munitions round. Except it will burrow deep shedding its outer casing and the inner dart will punch through any concrete and “spall” shedding high speed plasma style particulates that will burn through anything.
Of course the experts building munitions have a better handle on all this and I’m sure this is an old concept.
How ‘bout depleted uranium? In Iran’s case make that depleted uranium and CO-60?
A fence like McAuther was thinking about using to divide the Koreas in the 50’s...
Yup, from the 70s, called Rods from God.
Not deployed as space is ‘weapons free’
THey would be the size of telephone poles (about 40 ft) and have a ‘dumb seeker’ likely LASER, to ensure target is hit.