423 Space-Based Weapons

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As the ultimate weapon, there are corresponding names. It is officially named the 'Rod From God', but in private, most Scientists and Officials call it by another name, 'The Light of Judgment'. In terms of appearance, it is like a spear flying high above the sky. Overlooking the Origin Planet, it scans everything on the ground and the ray of death will come down at any time. For the Imperium Military, there is a reason why it is not easy to use the Weapon and it is also very simple, the cost is too high.

So far, among many ideas, it is the only Weapon ever made that goes beyond Nuclear Weapons. It's just the beginning, so there are many immature techs. And because the technology was just born, the cost is very high. Especially this big guy, it must be used in space. Just sending the Weapon to space, the money spent reaches an astronomical number. This amount is enough to create an unknown number of Nuclear Bombs. From their point of view, its price-to-performance ratio is very low.

Ever since it was made, there was not even a single test. That's because they can't afford it. It has been more than a year since the birth of the 'Rod From God', Scientists have thought of countless ways to improve or cut the cost of its use. But it's all small talk, until a Scientist suddenly remember the Metal Man that could be called to help and this greatly reduces the cost.

However the Metal Man cannot do everything as it can only be transformed into some machinery. Above the sky at this time, the 'Rod From God', for all to see, only the core part were made by the Imperium. In other places, they created by the transformed Metal Man, thus, the costs were greatly reduced and it gain greater operational flexibility.

"The legendary Space-Based Weapon." Jiang Fan looked at this Weapon in Space.

In his head, he remembered the concept of weapons in the science fiction works he saw in his previous life. Earth in the past has several countries trying to create it, but only the Imperium right now has created and launch it to Space.

Space-Based Weapons, as the name suggests, it is high in Space and it can hit anywhere and anytime on the Planet. It does not rely on anything other than the speed of a kinetic projectile fire from orbit. The main lethality of Nuclear Bomb is the ultra-high temperature, while the Space-Based Weapons are directly from the physical attack.

Among the many futuristic conceptual weapons, Space-Based Weapons are not ideal and some are even impractical. But there is no other way, with the current technological level of the Imperium, only a Space-Based Weapon like the 'Rod From God' can be created. Plus the presence of new materials make up for some of the shortcomings of the Space-Based Weapon, so there is a certain feasibility.

At this moment, Jiang Fan understand it very clearly. The 'Rod From God' attack are not energy related, but it is an alloy rod composed of different metals. The length is ten meters and about half a meter in diameter. It is mainly composed of 5 parts: Kinetic Energy Warhead, Propulsion System, Guidance System, Thermal Control System and Communication System.

And inside the body of the 'Rod From God' is a device that is able to make this giant Alloy Rod accelerate in a magnetic field. This is also the largest accelerator made by the Imperium so far. With the current research level of accelerator, ordinary object can have super high speeds of more than ten kilometers per second and this large accelerator is even better. After acceleration, the Alloy Rod speed, it will be amazing. After launched, it travel at over twenty kilometers per second.

Even though Jiang Fan kept staring unblinkingly, only a dark shadow can be seen pass by.