And the fallout from a nuclear device can be devastating to surrounding, potentially friendly areas.Ī core takeaway from the concept of weapons like Project Thor’s is that hypersonic weapons pack a significant punch and might be the future of global warfare. The trouble with a nuclear payload is that it isn’t designed to penetrate deep into the surface. Interestingly enough, the cost of a single Minuteman III ICBM was $7 million in 1962, when it was first introduced ($57 million adjusted for inflation).
The Bush Administration even considered revisiting the idea to hit underground nuclear sites in rogue nations in the years following 9/11. Like lawn darts, but with global repercussions.
The mod improves the overall sound quality immensely, by replacing every vanilla sound of the game with a much more realistic, metallic counterpart. The cost of $230 million dollars per rod was unimaginable during the Cold War. In the same category of immersion as Speed of Sound, but a step higher on the ladder, we have the JSRS Sound Mod, which is an absolute must-have for any player of Arma III. Just one of the rods would be prohibitively expensive. Which do you prefer I know my choice, let me know in the box.
With 20 cubic feet of dense tungsten weighing in at just over 24,000 pounds, the math is easy. Today we look at Sound Mods for Arma 3, the main contenders are J.S.R.S and Speed of Sound v2. One Quora user who works in the defense aerospace industry quoted a cost of no less than $10,000 per pound to fire anything into space. It would take 15 minutes to destroy a target with such a weapon. More than that, when the rod hits, the explosion would be on par with the magnitude of a ground-penetrating nuclear weapon – but with no fallout. The rod itself would penetrate hundreds of feet into the Earth, destroying any potential hardened bunkers or secret underground sites. The “ rods from God” idea was a bundle of telephone-pole sized (20 feet long, one foot in diameter) tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching a speed of up to ten times the speed of sound. Instead of hundreds of small projectiles from a few thousand feet, Thor used a large projectile from a few thousand miles above the Earth.
They were shotgunning a large swath of jungle, raining bullet-sized death at high speeds.
The idea is like shooting bullets at a target, except instead of losing velocity as it travels, the projectile is gaining velocity and energy that will be expended on impact. Lazy Dog projectiles (aka “kinetic bombardment”) could reach speeds of up to 500 mph as they fell to the ground and could penetrate nine inches of concrete after being dropped from as little as 3,000 feet There was no explosive – they were simply dropped by the hundreds from planes flying above Vietnam. These were simply solid steel pieces, less than two inches long, fitted with fins. Air Force’s most simple weapon ever: a tungsten rod that could hit a city with the explosive power of an intercontinental ballistic missile.ĭuring the Vietnam War, the U.S. The 107-country Outer Space Treaty signed in 1967 prohibits nuclear, biological, or chemical weapons from being placed or used from Earth’s orbit.