tho not initially, railguns and coil guns are still very expensive to produce, because both are still fairly new technologies

actually, if big enough, you could theoretically shoot tanks at people with mass accelerators as ammunition

lol

best part is, ammo is just basically hunks of metal

yeah

tho a penetrator rod is the most ideal ammunition

especially in atmosphere

"The Fist of God"

aka rods the size of telephone poles made of tungsten dropped from space

mhm

tho they supposedly were never made nor put into space

i've been told that if they strike the ground they can cause destruction the likes of which are even worse then nukes

the destruction they cause can crack both the earth, and cause earthquakes

> tho they supposedly were never made nor put into space
@Zilla or were they

Just make a gun so powerful it can vaporize an island. Because who cares right?!

> Just make a gun so powerful it can vaporize an island. Because who cares right?!
@Dr Badass PhD we already got nukes for that

but the technical good thing about the rods is that they leave no fallout, so after the dust settles and the earth stops shaking you can go back there and rebuild

But orbital death cannon 😔

Hehehehe

and the Rods of God by even their time werent really a new idea, they were based off of something done with high altitude bombers dropping solid steel bombs in Korea (or was it Nam i forget) where at the altitude they were dropped would have the same explosive mass as a similar sized chemical bomb

all troops should have hi points

change my mind

Hmmm

no

I don't know enough about Korea so I won't say it was Korea. Another war Imma study when I have nothing else to do.

yo i think i just got kicked

im back tho

nice

Also i got my own little theory about why the rods of god went nowhere really
Militsry contractors for shit like Tanks, Naval vessels, and jets realised they would become extremely irrelivent in their presence

ah i see

Because afterall, what use is a tank if if you can vaporize an entire enemy base within 15 minutes

fair enough

but i bet US has them somewhere for when the Space Force takes off

and there are colonies that need a thorough thwacking

Theres probably some unfinished ones sittinf around at Roswell

by the fists of God themselves

Frankly a more simple solute to why the program was shelved was due to budget constraints + the tech wasnt exactly there in the 80's for pinpoint destruction since global mapping electronics was only at its infancy

again, its being saved for when we need to thwack interplanetary colonies with the Fist of God

Lol

> yo i think i just got kicked
@ThiccSpicyGenderRevealParty You didn't actually. Not sure wtf happened.

a little earlier i siad shame 3 times and i got kicked