Old Thread hit bump limit >The Pentagon’s New Super Weapon Is Basically A Weaponized Meteor Strike
>In the 1950s, Jerry Pournelle imagined the military equivalent of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
>Toiling away as a Boeing operations researcher in the afterglow of the Manhattan Project and the Soviet Union’s First Lightning nuclear test in 1949, the U.S. Army veteran envisioned a weapons system armed not with munitions and other chemical explosives, but massive rods forged from heavy metals dropped from sub-orbital heights. Those “tungsten thunderbolts,” as the New York Times called them, would impact enemy strongholds below with the devastating velocity of a dino-exterminating impact, obliterating highly fortified targets — like, say, Iranian centrifuges or North Korean bunkers — without the mess of nuclear fallout.
Kinetic military action is a euphemism for military action involving lethal force.[
Adam Taylor
And that's why he called it "secret kinetic military option" ?
kys
Asher Clark
So brianna wu was right...
Luke Bennett
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Caleb Butler
you didn't know punching people was a thing did you! GET REDPILLED BITCH
Gabriel Brown
>punching people is a secret kind of warfare
Jacob Powell
She's got my vote.
Ryder Foster
>she
Thomas Morris
YOU FUCKING BIGOT I CAN'T WAIT TO DROP MOON ROCKS ON YOU
Isaiah Hill
>act >amends constitution >establishes world peace >ok
Wyatt Roberts
The rod and the ring
Robert Jackson
Will strike
Nathan Diaz
Kinetic is military parlance means a physical high intensity operation. Nothing to do with satellites, he's talking about "going hands on" instead of negotiating.
Lincoln Stewart
i hope your right user
Adrian White
hey i remember this weapon from tom clancy's endwar videogame , very nice.
Parker Turner
I tried making a unified theory.
Jace Rodriguez
Brainlet here, I don't get how the rods hit the earth with nuclear force, isn't terminal velocity a thing?
Terminal velocity changes with 1) wind resistance 2) density 3) surface area.
So the terminal velocity of a human being is nothing like the terminal velocity of a low surface area rod, made of depleted uranium, entering the atmosphere from outer space (where there is no air).
Anthony White
oh shit, i see it now
Nathaniel Phillips
Bretty much undetectable as well right? Cant do anything to stop it
Oliver Roberts
Could this be what the X-37 has been up to?
Thomas James
>Norks set off eruptions all across the pacific >triggers fault lines >fuck loads of earth quakes
this is the second greatest super villain plan ever. number 1 will always be destroying the moon.
Christopher Morgan
tard strength mixed with body builder?
this is actually a secret kind of warfare. image the tard hip firing a 50cal as norks pour out of trenches.
Chase Thompson
Probably a B-21 or something with a earth penetrating bomb. These things were pretty much built to fuck with Iran, the Norks are pretty weak comparitively
you could detect a release, but once it hits terminal velocity you can't stop it and tungsten can reach it's termninal velocity fast
Blake Jones
Unlikely. It probably lacks the payload capacity to put a kinetic weapon in space. A tungsten telephone pole weighs like 10 tons and would only provide the power of 11 tons of TNT
Its possible they lob one up on a standard rocket, but the X-37b is comparitively tiny and the dimensions of it would limit it to basically drop a chode of tungsten
Ayden Butler
The weapon doesn't exist. And Mattis said whatever they're planning would keep Seoul safe, I don't see how dropping a couple large rods would prevent the North from firing all their artillery.
Liam Turner
Its a weapon of ass destruction
Anthony Butler
But what could it have been up to, up there for almost two years? I wonder if we'll ever know...
Lucas Martin
Weapons tests, atmospheric tests, spy shit, who knows. You could start by looking at its trajectory and how many course corrections it made.
Luis Diaz
My guess is fucking with enemy space assets or intercepting communications
Angel Young
Are you all literally this fucking retarded?
Jack Powell
this would give me a chinese boner, tbqh
Anthony Hughes
checked in prehistoric times, pteranodons would shite mid-flight at onto prey. it's where the concept comes from.
Grayson Johnson
It's happening.
Eli Parker
I'll say it before and I'll say it again:. Anti-matter weapons are in space. Antihydrogen is created at the source. Antiprotons are sent down a microwave beam to it's target. Collapse the beam and boom. Search the ATS Aviation/Military forums for "511 MeV"
Xavier Price
>I'll say it before and I'll say it again:. Anti-matter weapons are in space