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Kimmo Huosionmaa
The idea of use meteorites for bombing the enemy is coming from the Cold War. People usually laugh at this idea, and I certainly hope that they would think that thing again. The idea of use meteorites as the weapon of mass destruction doesn't mean anything, what it seems. When we are thinking more carefully about this mystic plan, we do not normally think about the change to replace the word "meteorite" the word "kinetic energy missile", and this means artificial meteorite, what would plan to use against targets, and making this kind of weapon is not very difficult.
In some scenarios, the artificial meteorite would be like the ball, what would fill with the concrete, and then this meteorite would shoot to the Moon, or actually to the parabolic trajectory, where the Moon would use as the gravity sling for giving more energy for that ceramic projectile. Sometimes the Apollo-program was mentioned as the plan for making this kind of project true and in this case, the Apollo-capsule will fill with ceramic material, and then it would shoot to Moscow by using the gravity of the Moon to make this weapon more energetic.
Same way the Soviet Lunik-16 probe was suspected to test device for that kind of kinetic ammunition. In fact, there were claiming that both superpowers had plans to send small size tactical missiles to the Moon in special launching tubes, and those small rockets like Lance and SS-21 "Frog" would use only the arrow-shaped metal tungsten, what would hit the ground by causing very big damages. And the missiles would be very difficult to notice if they would not have nuclear warheads, what is visible in Gamma-ray cameras.
If those missiles would be opposite side of the Moon, they would not be visible for the observatories, what are on the Earth. The guidance of those weapons could be made by using TV-cameras, what is mounted in the nose of the missiles. And launching code can be given by using communication satellite, what flies across the Moon. The controlling and aiming would happen by using the remote control of the operators, who are sitting in some bunker or if they are using the remote control of their equipment, they can sit in their own homes.
Or the system can use DSMAC (Digital-Scene-Matching Area Correlation) for autonomous flying to its target. And it would get very high speed during the flight from the Moon to Earth because the gravity field of Earth would give it more speed and impact energy, what will make this thing very devastating and horrifying weapon.
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