# Orbital bombers

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 4, 2002, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orbital-bombers/107309 "2002-05-04T22:46:48Z")\
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**Post date:** [May 6, 2002, 1:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/orbital-bombers/107309/21 "2002-05-06T13:48:45Z")

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On the subject of "thunder rods’, I did a bunch of math on that for the Lost Thread, but essentially, you can turn it into a cluster munition with ease, sleeting down several hundred projectiles, each with the same or more KE of a 120mm APDSFS penetrator, as currently fired by the Rhienmettal gun on the M-1A1. In short, they could be made into absolutly lethal killers.

It’s just much easier and cheaper to do it from inside the atmosphere.

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