Tungsten Rods From Space

Military is gathering its tungsten.

Tungsten rods from space. More properly known as hypervelocity rod bundles these weapons would simply be slender solid tungsten cylinders 20 or 30 feet long and one or two feet in diameter with impact speeds of mach 10. If rods from god could make that happen odds are the u s. The navy considered two types of warheads in the near term for kinetic weapons.

Natural news cites a 2004 article by popular science describing the operation of a hypothetical space based weapons system dubbed rods from god to support its conspiracy theory speculation that the chinese were hit by a spaced based weapon fired by pentagon. A fully deployed tungsten rod would be about 3 million each. One satellite fires the rods towards the earth s atmosphere while the.

The 107 country outer space treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear biological or chemical weapons from being placed or used from earth s orbit. Dropping the atomic bombs that essentially forced japan to end world war ii led to a number of weapons and munitions developments. The rods could be dropped from orbit at the right moment accelerating during their thousand mile plummet to earth to more than 10 times the speed of sound.

Amongst them was research. Launching heavy tungsten rods into space will require substantially cheaper rocket technology than we have today. One warhead would be designed to destroy or disable area targets like airfields or buildings using a reentry vehicle loaded with tungsten rods known as flechettes that would rain down on the target.

A tungsten rod that could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile. But there are numerous other obstacles to making such a system work. What they didn t count on was the u s.

These would be made out of tungsten a rare metal that can stand the intense heat generated by entering earth s atmosphere. The rods would be sent into space and fired from satellites at bunkers on the ground which they would hit at speeds of more than 10 000 feet per second penetrating deep into the earth without any explosives. But popular science makes it clear that the technology for the hypothetical kinetic energy space weapon it described was.