The Rod from God.

[Jan SobieskiParticipant 28791]

http://taskandpurpose.com/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry/

I am living in the future. 20 years ago this was Sci-Fi.

The downside is that without the fallout, these will be easier to use.

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[AutoliteParticipant]

KEPs are not uncommon.

The CRV7’s kinetic energy was so high that testers were surprised to find that practice rounds (fitted with an 8-inch solid steel rod penetrator) were penetrating outdated Centurion tanks used for target practice. This resulted in the development of a dedicated antitank warhead that replaced the steel rod in the practice warhead with a tungsten rod. This new antitank warhead could penetrate a Soviet T-72 main battle tank armour from any attack angle. Further study into this effect led to the WDU-5002/B FAT warhead, Flechette Anti-Tank, containing five tungsten-reinforced steel flechettes that could penetrate a T-72’s side and top armour at a distance of 10,000 feet (3,000 m). It was also found to be a useful warhead for use against medium and light armoured vehicles.[4][8] Further development led to the WDU-500X/B “General Purpose Flechette” which releases 80 tungsten flechettes that can penetrate 1.5 inches of roll-hardened armor[9] for use against personnel, some light armour, thin skin vehicles and helicopters.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CRV7

[MarketWatcherParticipant]

Jan Sobieski wrote:

The downside is that without the fallout, these will be easier to use.

True, but in order to maintain peace we need superior firepower. I like the rail gun because it will be easier to use with less risk.

[Anonymous 42]

Tungsten carbide? Why not use DU? It’s much cheaper and keeps mutating the surrounding life for generations! The kill that keeps on killing!
It’s a scary thought all that red hot Tungsten slamming onto an underground installation, no place is safe from something like that.
What will they use to lift all that kinetic weight into space? Used Soviet rockets? We have nothing that flies that high anymore, the eagle has vanished from outer space!

Thanks Obama!

[Anonymous 14]

MarketWatcher wrote:

True, but in order to maintain peace we need superior firepower.

Seems a good idea in theory, but what ends up happening is the side with superior firepower uses it to enforce it’s will upon others at a whim.

For peace you need both sides to have weapons of Mutually Assured Destruction. This imbalance is why the Mid East will never see peace as Israel/U.S. keeps f~~~ing with people with no fear of repercussion. Now, lets say Iran did get nukes one day, then we would finally see peace over there. Israel/U.S. is fighting hard to ensure peace never happens, as fighting for peace is just about as effective as f~~~ing for virginity.

This works macro and micro. I just talked about the macro, now for the micro. If only one man in a neighborhood has a gun and he kills his neighbors whenever he feels like it and takes their stuff, then goes on to kill those around him who begin to resent him and are now trying to get guns, you will never have peace as long as he stays one step ahead of everyone. Now, if everyone in the neighborhood were armed it would be a much different story. This is basically what we have going on in the Mid East…

[GrumpyParticipant]

just a little light reading in regards to Railguns and Superguns.
They have been in the works for quite a long time. Since as early as 1918, yes almost 100 years ago.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railgun
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Oliphant
http://www.notablebiographies.com/supp/Supplement-Mi-So/Oliphant-Mark.html
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull
http://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/gerald-bull/

IIRC
American author Robert A Heinlein, and British author Arthur C Clarke (among others) wrote fairly accurate descriptions and functionality of both types of weapons in the mid to late 1930’s.

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