Kinnect Bombardment

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Do you think that the use of Kinnect Bombardment will be used in the future as a WMD?

Kinnect Bombardment has the potential to cause massive damage and destroy landscape beyond recognition as well as the relative cost per objective would be cheaper than that of per war head etc. Other than getting the system into space the program could end up saving money.

As far as im aware these sorts of weapons are infact allowed in outer space as they are non explosive.

What do you think?
 

Blackshoe

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Do you think that the use of Kinnect Bombardment will be used in the future as a WMD?

Kinnect Bombardment has the potential to cause massive damage and destroy landscape beyond recognition as well as the relative cost per objective would be cheaper than that of per war head etc. Other than getting the system into space the program could end up saving money.

As far as im aware these sorts of weapons are infact allowed in outer space as they are non explosive.

What do you think?
First: Welcome to the boards; introduce yourself here and read the stickies.

Second, "kinetic" not "Kinnect" (sic). If you can't spell it, I'm not inclined to believe you can have a reasonable discussion on it.
 

StobieWan

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Do you think that the use of Kinnect Bombardment will be used in the future as a WMD?

Kinnect Bombardment has the potential to cause massive damage and destroy landscape beyond recognition as well as the relative cost per objective would be cheaper than that of per war head etc. Other than getting the system into space the program could end up saving money.

As far as im aware these sorts of weapons are infact allowed in outer space as they are non explosive.

What do you think?

Kinetic weapons (Rods From God) have been debated endlessly on any number of boards over the years and the numbers always stack up the same - they're too expensive to get into space for the given effect. There'll be a niche for a small number of strike weapons, which can be ground based but putting weapons into space, in orbit is very expensive to do.
 

RobWilliams

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Has the OP played Call of Duty: Ghosts recently?

Because that exact thing (orbital kinetic weapons) forms the core of the single player campaign and produces the exact effects that have been described.
 

StobieWan

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Oh, if you can lug the stuff up there, they'd be fecking dangerous - thing is, take a look at heavy space lift capacity which is available *now* and then try to work out how you'd get something like that into orbit - and do it several times - because for the time on target response you're after, you'd need multiple satellites in orbit.

Either that or wait a lot.

It's been around as an idea for a while:

Rods from God | Popular Science
 

John Fedup

The Bunker Group
Perhaps in a couple of hundred years it would be possible to have WMD delivered from space by diverting small asteroids to earth. The destruction could be significant but targeting wouldn't be great...not an issue for terrorists. As with all ideas, good or bad, it would depend on cost.
 

StingrayOZ

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Perhaps in a couple of hundred years it would be possible to have WMD delivered from space by diverting small asteroids to earth. The destruction could be significant but targeting wouldn't be great...not an issue for terrorists. As with all ideas, good or bad, it would depend on cost.
Its not easy. We could divert small rocks <20-50m with the technology today, but they wouldn't be accurate, or timely, or frequent.

Even with rods of god, accuracy and timeliness is still a huge issue. Even in LEO with multiple launch platforms, its could be days to launch. Then you still have a hideously expensive way to launch a hypersonic and rather inaccurate re-entry rod. at best re-entry vehicles (which are hugely expensive and complex) are accurate to maybe 100m or so. Fine for a 250kt nuclear device, but not so good for a kinetic kill.

Its hard to see where it would be useful. Anyone that had the capability would find it much easier and cheaper to launch missiles from ships/aircraft to do the same thing that would be much for effective, cheaper, faster to deploy etc.
 

StingrayOZ

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I suspect Prompt Global Strike will yield fruits first (if that's still ticking along?)
It seems to be what this need evolved into.

Rather than focusing on orbital weapon platforms, you look at the need, to strike anywhere within 1 hour. Ground/airbase hypersonic platforms are often a better way of doing that. Cheaper, more maneuverable, ability to upgrade, less open, harder to intercept.

AFAIK its ticking along, however, hypersonics seems tricky, there have been some issues with getting things to work reliably.
 
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