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 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 ...

Researchers at the North University of China in Taiyuan, Shanxi province, working with the university's Intelligent Weapon Research Institute, have successfully accelerated tungsten rods to ...

Launching heavy tungsten rods into space will require substantially ... “The space-basing people seem to understand the downside of space weapons,” Pike says–among them, high costs and ...

If each cost $350 million, then it would cost $70 billion. The US Air Force and Navy looked closely at tungsten rod kinetic energy weapons on several occasions. A 47 page Congressional Research Bureau ...

Woolf, Specialist in Nuclear Weapons Policy. Navy Reentry Vehicle Research In 2009 ... range submarine-launched ballistic missile described below. It would carry a tungsten-rod (“flechette”) warhead, ...

Getting bundles of telephone pole-sized tungsten rods—1.7 time denser than lead ... Space Force—is all on its own when it comes to weapons. The Force’ first weapon system, the Counter ...

Weapons expert Amy F. Woolf said: "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 ...

another weapon system which would rely on tungsten rods, though not space-based). Clearly the rods are a first-strike, offensive weapon. The nation’s aging fleet of ICBMs, and its more modern ...

What they didn't count on was the US 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 Vietnam War ...