"'rods from god' … 20 feet long, 1 foot in diameter tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching a speed of up to 10x the speed of sound … penetrate hundreds of feet into the Earth … explosion would be on par with … ground-penetrating nuclear weapon"https://www.businessinsider.com/air-force-rods-from-god-kinetic-weapon-hit-with-nuclear-weapon-force-2017-9 …
$230 million per rod just to get the thing up into orbit? Seems cheaper just to bribe the guys guarding the bunker.
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Bribing might work, and if so would be cheaper, but its much less reliable, and one is much less able to credibly threaten that.
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Seems like it would be a lot cheaper to get a thruster into orbit and have it drop mass that's already there
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Bunkers usually have automated security in addition to guards
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2.76 billion minimum to get a unit with 12 rods into orbit. Maybe we can just build a wall around the bunker.
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If you're trying to penetrate a bunker. If you're trying to maintain authoritarian control over a population, a terroristic negative incentive might be more effective.
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