Re:Air Force 'rods from god' kinetic weapon could hit with n...
by whamlastxmas on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @07:24PM
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Your ping pong ball example is fairly counter to everything I've ever seen but I'm no physicist. I would be very surprised if there's any velocity that would put the ball through the paddle without completely destroying both
If the tungsten rod is able to borrow through hundreds of meters of bedrock, it seems to me that's a sufficiently efficient penetrator that it might 'ice pick' straight through the target bunker dumping only a small fraction of it's energy into the bunker, as it then goes deeper through more bedrock.