LOL, sounds like a bum “Check Engine ” light to me I copy the Half-Way mark on Sam’s Red Zone. LOL, The wind, Arrrrrrrr. After Daughter’s wedding and car prep, last month. I can get a Red Sam in this weekend. I call Democrats Redcoats now. Lost a nice girlfriend of over 20 years over politics this year. Life is interesting. I feel sorry for her , not me.
ARRrrrrr, Raise the Mizzin Mast, furl out the jib, Put her out to sea for a fortnight , C’ptain Chris.
You can embellish as needed. Dad had a bomb for each mission but, before they moved to Tinian, they had a camel above it for a mission over “the Hump.” Maybe all black for Antifan, or purple for a cow that looked like her face fell in a tackle box.
If a bunker buster bomb were to just fall out of the sky to hit a target, how many Falcon deliveries would it take to get all the parts an pieces into space? Asking for a friend.
Jerry Pournell wrote about an orbital system (Project Thor) using a satellite to deploy a bundle of rods, each about the size and shape of a broom handle. When deorbiting, they moved at @ Mach 25 (which interestingly enough is also the velocity of the metal liner inside a HEAT round as the explosive charge inverts it). With a kinetic energy of @ 3kg of TNT per Kg of weapon, the round could cause severe damage to most systems. More advanced versions were supposed to have sensors hidden in the nose (protected during re entry by a disposable ablative cap) and steer themselves towards ships or tanks, thus taking out moving targets. When you consider a HEAT round accelerating a metal liner weighing a few ounces to Mach 25 can severely damage or destroy a tank, then several kilograms of metal moving at that speed will punch through most normal materials.
Pournell isn’t my favourite author, although he does make the top half of the front page of the list, but he had a plausible albeit slightly technologically impaired idea that could work if the math is right and friction wasn’t a factor.
‘Rods from G-d’ or ‘G-d rods’ are a fairly common subject for discussion in some circles, largely centered on who’s got them in Space already and are they worth the effort.
Ever since the first caveman discovered gravity, or rather it’s effects on a rock pushed off the edge of a high place onto something below he’d taken a dislike to, the concept has been there “Look Og, higher you drop rock, harder it hit”, up to a point. Terminal velocity, if I remember correctly, is somewhere around 120mph. That still makes for a heckuva good whump at the bottom though and even Scripture mentions a millstone from a walltop as having a decisive effect on a battle 😉 Most however speculate that if you’re going to hoist something heavy into Space only to drop it back down again, a nuke is far more efficient in yield/kg.
They say that like the tech hasn’t already been sold, or just given, to enemy states for ‘balance’, starting in the design phase long before construction started. The various media routinely publish intricate details of military systems and operational plans from ‘anonymous sources’ that would have gotten them hung for treason not so long ago.
Oldarmourer — The 120mph terminal velocity is for a falling hooman bean. (eg: surface area of weight vs object weight plotted on an air density curve.)
Terminal velocity for a tungsten rod would be incredible.
It would come in at just under orbital speed, @ 15,000MPH. A broomstick-sized tungsten impactor would have the yield of 500 lbs of TNT. Imagine a string of 20 to 30 of them hitting the same spot in rapid succession! God’s own jack-hammer! And also consider the concussive and neroligical effect of those kinds of shocks. Even if the facility is not physically destroyed, how functional would the equipment or the staff be?
Zar Belk!
June 21, 2025 at 7:38 pm
epador
But who will deliver it? Amazon, Walmart or SpaceX?
June 21, 2025 at 8:21 pm
Oldarmourer
Well, looks like we just found out how fast 30,000 lbs from 30,000 feet goes, or at least iran did. They said they declared war on the US, so it was fair.
June 21, 2025 at 8:38 pm
Oldarmourer
the 120 mph is for pretty much anything in free fall, the orbital impetus of a ‘G-d rod’ would definitely add a quite a bit of velocity but the mass won’t be that much simply because it isn’t easy to lift that much mass up there and a broomstick sized rod wouldn’t do much, even made of tungsten coated osmium, a telephone pole sized one maybe but the question remains ‘how do you get them up there?’. Even skylab didn’t hit that high of a velocity on re-entry and it started with orbital velocity. Yes, aerodynamic braking or extended re-entry to maximize friction is possible to maximize for things you want to slow down and minimize for things you don’t but there’s still a limit on how fast they can go, unless the rods have rockets strapped to them and even then they likely wouldn’t go much faster than a MIRV. The main reason the ‘G-d rods’ never went anywhere was because the return isn’t worth the investment. On the bright side, it’s been proven that concrete filled aerial bombs do a heckuva job against tanks with virtually no collateral damage and they’re in regular use…oddly enough, they cost more, concrete is more expensive than explosives.
We may be in it but for all intents and purposes, iran is out of it.
Trump says he has no plans for another strike unless the ayatollahs do something really stupid, which of course is their trademark.
He also says the US has no plans to put ground troops in and why bother ? there’s nothing there anyone wants except the ayatollahs and their weapons gone.
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LOL, sounds like a bum “Check Engine ” light to me I copy the Half-Way mark on Sam’s Red Zone. LOL, The wind, Arrrrrrrr. After Daughter’s wedding and car prep, last month. I can get a Red Sam in this weekend. I call Democrats Redcoats now. Lost a nice girlfriend of over 20 years over politics this year. Life is interesting. I feel sorry for her , not me.
ARRrrrrr, Raise the Mizzin Mast, furl out the jib, Put her out to sea for a fortnight , C’ptain Chris.
ARRRRrrr, some Krew be difficult, they be.
Speaking of bombing out… I do believe we have a Turning Point in this road-blocking stuff.
It began here in Floriduh, when the Honcho PD Dude said: “Run ’em over!”
Now it has caught on:
https://www.instagram.com/p/DK9kT6ePDlN/
I see a business opportunity: Sticker decals like on the nose of a B-17 showing “Run-Over” counts
And THAT, boyz and girlz, is how it should have been done from the very beginning.
F A F O!
Brazil figured thi out also for motorcycle riding thieves. 😉
Heh, nice work, thinkin’ like an American. 🙂
You can embellish as needed. Dad had a bomb for each mission but, before they moved to Tinian, they had a camel above it for a mission over “the Hump.” Maybe all black for Antifan, or purple for a cow that looked like her face fell in a tackle box.
If a bunker buster bomb were to just fall out of the sky to hit a target, how many Falcon deliveries would it take to get all the parts an pieces into space? Asking for a friend.
Jerry Pournell wrote about an orbital system (Project Thor) using a satellite to deploy a bundle of rods, each about the size and shape of a broom handle. When deorbiting, they moved at @ Mach 25 (which interestingly enough is also the velocity of the metal liner inside a HEAT round as the explosive charge inverts it). With a kinetic energy of @ 3kg of TNT per Kg of weapon, the round could cause severe damage to most systems. More advanced versions were supposed to have sensors hidden in the nose (protected during re entry by a disposable ablative cap) and steer themselves towards ships or tanks, thus taking out moving targets. When you consider a HEAT round accelerating a metal liner weighing a few ounces to Mach 25 can severely damage or destroy a tank, then several kilograms of metal moving at that speed will punch through most normal materials.
Zar Belk!
Pournell isn’t my favourite author, although he does make the top half of the front page of the list, but he had a plausible albeit slightly technologically impaired idea that could work if the math is right and friction wasn’t a factor.
‘Rods from G-d’ or ‘G-d rods’ are a fairly common subject for discussion in some circles, largely centered on who’s got them in Space already and are they worth the effort.
Ever since the first caveman discovered gravity, or rather it’s effects on a rock pushed off the edge of a high place onto something below he’d taken a dislike to, the concept has been there “Look Og, higher you drop rock, harder it hit”, up to a point. Terminal velocity, if I remember correctly, is somewhere around 120mph. That still makes for a heckuva good whump at the bottom though and even Scripture mentions a millstone from a walltop as having a decisive effect on a battle 😉 Most however speculate that if you’re going to hoist something heavy into Space only to drop it back down again, a nuke is far more efficient in yield/kg.
Read “The moon is a Harsh Mistress”
Nuke the Moon: A Realistic Plan For World Peace.
And DJT is just the man for the job.
https://www.imao.us/docs/NukeTheMoon.htm
They say that like the tech hasn’t already been sold, or just given, to enemy states for ‘balance’, starting in the design phase long before construction started. The various media routinely publish intricate details of military systems and operational plans from ‘anonymous sources’ that would have gotten them hung for treason not so long ago.
Oldarmourer — The 120mph terminal velocity is for a falling hooman bean. (eg: surface area of weight vs object weight plotted on an air density curve.)
Terminal velocity for a tungsten rod would be incredible.
It would come in at just under orbital speed, @ 15,000MPH. A broomstick-sized tungsten impactor would have the yield of 500 lbs of TNT. Imagine a string of 20 to 30 of them hitting the same spot in rapid succession! God’s own jack-hammer! And also consider the concussive and neroligical effect of those kinds of shocks. Even if the facility is not physically destroyed, how functional would the equipment or the staff be?
Zar Belk!
But who will deliver it? Amazon, Walmart or SpaceX?
Well, looks like we just found out how fast 30,000 lbs from 30,000 feet goes, or at least iran did. They said they declared war on the US, so it was fair.
the 120 mph is for pretty much anything in free fall, the orbital impetus of a ‘G-d rod’ would definitely add a quite a bit of velocity but the mass won’t be that much simply because it isn’t easy to lift that much mass up there and a broomstick sized rod wouldn’t do much, even made of tungsten coated osmium, a telephone pole sized one maybe but the question remains ‘how do you get them up there?’. Even skylab didn’t hit that high of a velocity on re-entry and it started with orbital velocity. Yes, aerodynamic braking or extended re-entry to maximize friction is possible to maximize for things you want to slow down and minimize for things you don’t but there’s still a limit on how fast they can go, unless the rods have rockets strapped to them and even then they likely wouldn’t go much faster than a MIRV. The main reason the ‘G-d rods’ never went anywhere was because the return isn’t worth the investment. On the bright side, it’s been proven that concrete filled aerial bombs do a heckuva job against tanks with virtually no collateral damage and they’re in regular use…oddly enough, they cost more, concrete is more expensive than explosives.
Well it is the commie auto pen way..innit
Well, we are in it now. We just hit Iran.
We may be in it but for all intents and purposes, iran is out of it.
Trump says he has no plans for another strike unless the ayatollahs do something really stupid, which of course is their trademark.
He also says the US has no plans to put ground troops in and why bother ? there’s nothing there anyone wants except the ayatollahs and their weapons gone.
I was hoping against it but we have to trust God with our fate and DJT with our defense…and I do.