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A kinetic bombardment or a kinetic orbital strike is the hypothetical act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert kinetic projectile from orbit (orbital bombardment), where the destructive power comes from the kinetic energy of the projectile impacting at very high speeds.
Eyewitnesses reported that 21 November attack on Dnipro, which included Oreshnik strike, triggered explosions lasting up to three hours. [10] A director at the Center for Strategic and International Studies said that Oreshnik's warheads, even inert, can cause "a lot of damage" because of the kinetic energy created by their hypersonic speed. [11]
Orbital bombardment is the act of attacking targets on a planet, moon or other astronomical object from orbit around the object, rather than from an aircraft, or a platform beyond orbit. It has been proposed as a means of attack for several weapons systems concepts, including kinetic bombardment and as a nuclear delivery system.
I believe the article Rods from God should be merged into the larger and more general article Kinetic bombardment. Francisco Valverde 21:35, 16 January 2006 (UTC) Done. Also added science-fiction sections. Scoo 09:37, 28 January 2006 (UTC) Rods From God seems to be identical to the flying telephone poles version of Thor.
A kinetic energy weapon (also known as kinetic weapon, kinetic energy warhead, kinetic warhead, kinetic projectile, kinetic kill vehicle) is a projectile weapon based solely on a projectile's kinetic energy to inflict damage to a target, instead of using any explosive, incendiary/thermal, chemical or radiological payload.
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The 5"/54 caliber or 5"/62 caliber Mark 45 gun is fully-automated and capable of engaging surface targets in an anti-ship role, air targets in an anti-aircraft or defensive anti-missile role, and land targets in a naval gunfire support role. The gun has a range of 13 nmi (24.1 km) for 5"/54 variants [4] or 20 nmi (37.0 km) for the 5"/62 variant ...
The R-60M is 42 mm (1.7 in) longer, and has a heavier, 3.5 kg (7.7 lb) continuous-rod warhead, increasing launch weight to 45 kg (99 lb). In the R-60M the continuous rod warhead now uses 1.6 kg (3.5 lb) of depleted uranium rods for enhanced fragmentation. [5] The inert training version of the R-60M was the R-60MU.