KINECTIC BOMBARDEMENT

[Secur]

They are probably not weapons of mass destruction... they can be used against a hardened target like a SILO, and can be deployed quicker than an ICBM and is realy hard to detect... those are som huge advantages... Enemy silo based BMs can be destroyed before they are launched

Sending something like that into orbit * assuming the current technologies * would be so costly that its expensiveness - the cost and resources required will probably outweigh its potential benefits . U.S tried something like that in " Strategic Defense Initiative " program by the name of " Brilliant Pebbles " .

 

[Kompromat]

@AirRodgers

It sounds easy, but hitting a moving target with a full battle group around it from outer space isn't exactly a piece of cake.

 

[AirRodgers]

When you talking about the velocity/speed the projectile is travelling at its like a sniper shooting a carrier.. The sniper just happen to be in outer space...The battle group can 't do anything to protect a carrier from such a weapon. Its like a hunter scoping a group of deer sure there might be 10 deer but that not gona prevent the hunter from shooting one of them ..

This type of space base projectile is so fast that it can't be dodge or intercepted, its a one shot one kill weapon.. This is what you call a space base riffle with massive impact velocity and the satellite is it scope..

 

[Alpha1]

When you talking about the velocity/speed the projectile is travelling at its like a sniper shooting a carrier.. The sniper just happen to be in outer space...The battle group can 't do anything to protect a carrier from such a weapon. Its like a hunter scoping a group of deer sure there might be 10 deer but that not gona prevent the hunter from shooting one of them ..

This type of space base projectile is so fast that it can't be dodge or intercepted, its a one shot one kill weapon.. This is what you call a space base riffle with massive impact velocity and the satellite is it scope..

weapon's guidance systems would be blind during atmospheric reentry due to the plasma sheath that would develop ahead of it, so if the target i.e. CBG performs any unexpected maneuver it could be difficult to hit

 

[Alpha1]

 

[halupridol]

i tried reading bt samajh me nahi aaya

 

[Alpha1]

i tried reading bt samajh me nahi aaya

In layman words If you throw a telephone pole made of tungsten from orbit lt will cause a lot of damage

 

[halupridol]

In layman words If you throw a telephone pole made of tungsten from orbit lt will cause a lot of damage

thnks for simplifying it....so its like a man made meteorite

 

[OrionHunter]

Who's hare-brained idea was this? It wouldn't be cost effective at all. Consider this:

Every Kg put into LEO around Earth costs between $10,000 to $50,000. So sending a tungsten KE projectile into space which weighs say 1000kg, would cost between $10,000,000 and $50,000,000!!

$50,000,000 for a single projectile? A telephone pole? They must be out of their minds!! This is what can be called brain farts!!

In other words, a stupid idea!

A far more cost effective solution would be the use of laser weapons in space that can zap targets on Earth with great accuracy. But that technology is a little way into the future.

Until then, lets not try sending telephone poles into space!!!

 

[jarves]

It may be possible in future as countries are working on to minimise the costs of putting a satellite into a LEO.
By the way 1 atom bomb=How many tons of TNT???

 

[krash]

Whatever the case, these things aren't ever getting anywhere close to being WMDs, like in that ridiculous GI Joe movie. The destruction is all dependant on the momentum of the object which is a product of its mass and velocity. So to increase the energy released you need to increase the velocity and/or mass. Which to make it a WMD would be a lot! To give you an idea, the very recent Chelyabinsk meteor had a total kinetic energy before atmospheric impact equivalent to roughly 400-600 kilotons of TNT. The meteor had an estimated before entry mass of about 12,000–13,000 metric tonnes and entered the atmosphere at around 69,000 km/h, which is 56.3245075279 mach!!! Thankfully it exploded in the air at a height of around 29.7 km.

Looked cool though,

It may be possible in future as countries are working on to minimise the costs of putting a satellite into a LEO.
By the way 1 atom bomb=How many tons of TNT???

It depends. It can range anywhere from 0.01 kilotons (Davy Crockett) to 50,000 kilotons or 50 megatons (Tsar Bomb. The most power nuke ever exploded). The bombs in Hiroshima and Nagasaki were 18 and 20 kilotons, respectively.