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| Orbital Weapon Lancet (OWL) | ||
| A kinetic energy weapon placed in Earth orbit. |
| ...we have decided to utilize a class of kinetic kill projectiles known as Lancets - essentially guided steel telephone poles tipped with a chemical warhead. They're designed to fall from low Earth orbit and punch a hole in the ground, through several hundred feet of dirt, reinforced concrete and even steel. They then incinerate anything within the relatively small but very deep impact crater... |
| Technovelgy from Quantico,
by Greg Bear. Published by Vanguard in 2007 Additional resources -
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See also the flying crowbars from Footfall, the 1985 novel by Niven and Pournelle. Jerry Pournelle wrote about this idea as early as 1964.
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