A few well-placed tungsten rods, however ... ratio,” which refers to number of satellites, or in this case bundles of rods, which would be necessary to assure proximity to the target.

It would carry a tungsten-rod (“flechette”) warhead ... it does not rely on precise navigation as is the case with “hit-to-kill” vehicles and 2) it provides better penetration then blast fragmentation ...

The idea for the hypersonic tungsten rod weapon involves dropping a large tungsten rod from a satellite or other spacecraft in orbit. When the rod hits the target at a speed of Mach 10 ...

What this means practically speaking however is difficult to define—and perhaps in some cases not adhered to. One early Cold War project would have seen large rods of tungsten, a high-density ...

A fully deployed tungsten rod would be about $3 million each ... it does not rely on precise navigation as is the case with “hit-to-kill” vehicles and 2) it provides better penetration then blast ...

What they didn’t count on was the U.S. Air Force’s most simple weapon ever: a tungsten rod that could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile. During the ...

What this means practically speaking however is difficult to define—and perhaps in some cases not adhered to. One early Cold War project would have seen large rods of tungsten, a high-density ...

One functions as the targeting and communications platform while the other carries numerous tungsten rods–up to 20 feet in length and a foot in diameter–that it can drop on targets with less ...