Reply #2: They talked about that way back in the 80s [View All]

[lenidog]

The whole idea started out in sci-fi literature a novel called "Footfall" if I recall. The alien race in the novel used the satellites which contained the rods to wipe out several US armored divisions. So some boys in the DARPA looked at the possibility of building such satellites and using them on a Warsaw Pact thrust into Germany if it ever happened. The name back then was the "Hammers of Thor." They would strap a sensor to the nose and some fins to direct them and bombs away. Also they decided to build them out of titanium since the idea was to drop them from a satellite from low Earth orbit. That way they wouldn't burn up