If so-called “Rods from God”–an informal nickname of untraceable origin–ever do materialize, it won’t be for at least 15 years. Launching heavy tungsten rods into space will require ...

The “rods from God” idea was a bundle of telephone-pole sized (20 feet long, one foot in diameter) tungsten rods, dropped from orbit, reaching a speed of up to ten times the speed of sound.

Although the fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan often takes place at eyeball range -- as will most battles in what Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld now calls "the long war" -- Pentagon planners are ...

That's the theory behind the so-called "rods from God" concept that the U.S. military developed during the cold war under the codename "Project Thor." The idea of so-called "kinetic weapons" isn't ...

Traveling at hypersonic speeds of Mach 5 or greater, these so-called “Rods from God” would be so completely devastating, they could totally forgo any explosive payload—be it conventional ...

Advocates like to claim that these ‘rods from god’ as they came to be known could strike with the force of a nuclear weapon but with no radiation or fallout. Decades later, Putin is making is ...

Traveling at hypersonic speeds of Mach 5 or greater, these so-called “Rods from God” would be so completely devastating, they could totally forgo any explosive payload—be it conventional ...

A hypersonic space weapon concept, nicknamed “rods from God”, which was first dreamed up during the Cold War, might not be as effective as previously thought, according to a new study.

Among the weapons the Air Force might deploy are space-based lasers, a space plane capable of delivering a half-ton payload anywhere in the world in 45 minutes, and the “rods from god.” ...