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kentauros

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10. Aren't those "bunker buster" bombs

Reply to hobbit709 (Reply #9)

Sat Jun 13, 2015, 06:44 AM

Jun 2015

basically just rocket-propelled and guided drilling pipe? That stuff's pretty tough. So, if you can guide a big rock from somewhere nearby in space, why not drop a truckload of drilling pipe from low-Earth orbit instead

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