Is the “Rod of God” as powerful as a nuclearweapon?

What is the “Rod of God”? In fact, it is a space-based weapon. A tungsten rod is dropped from space. With the help of the kinetic energy of the earth, this tungsten rod carries huge destructive power, which is as powerful as a nuclear weapon and can easily destroy a large city!
But is this “Rod of God” really so terrible? For this reason, my country has conducted relevant experiments, and the results are really “shocking”!
Rod of God
The “Rod of God” is not actually proposed recently. As early as the last century, the United States proposed this concept in the “Global War” plan. In recent years, there have even been reports that the United States plans to complete the deployment of space-based weapons by 2025. Of course, the truth of this news remains to be verified.
In the United States’ imagination, how terrible is the “Rod of God”? What is the operating principle?
The “Rod of God” is made on the ground, and then the launch platform is sent to the Earth orbit by a carrier rocket. With space as the base, you can choose any target to attack and drop the “Rod of God”. No matter how many skills you have, you will have nowhere to hide!
The “ammunition” fired by this weapon is a metal rod composed of tungsten, titanium, and uranium (many people simply call it tungsten rod), which can weigh several tons.

The tungsten rod is launched from space, using the gravity of the earth to continuously accelerate and increase kinetic energy. It only takes about 11 minutes from launch to hitting the target, which is much shorter than the time taken by intercontinental ballistic missiles. When hitting the target, after a long period of acceleration, the speed of the tungsten rod has reached 3111 meters per second. At this time, the energy carried by the tungsten rod is thousands of times greater than that of the Hiroshima atomic bomb, which can easily destroy a large city! +
Of course, this is just the idea of ​​the United States. What about the reality?
my country’s experiment on the “Rod of God”
For the “Rod of God”, my country has really done relevant experiments.
Some netizens found an experimental paper published in my country in 2018. In the paper, the scientific research team specifically simulated an experiment similar to the “Rod of God”. In the experiment, a 140-kilogram tungsten rod was used to hit the Gobi Desert at a speed of 13.6 Mach. A variety of theoretical models and experimental results were cited, and the results of the impact were finally calculated: the tungsten rod smashed a pit with a depth of 3.2 meters and a radius of 4.7 meters.
This result is quite “shocking”, and its destructive power is comparable to that of a large artillery shell!
But… Isn’t the US idea thousands of times more powerful than the Hiroshima atomic bomb? It feels like this is another boast, and it ended up being embarrassing!
In fact, this result is also reasonable.
Take meteorites as an example. There are huge planets such as Saturn and Jupiter in the solar system, which have strong gravity. If the meteorites entering the solar system are not fast enough, they will easily be “captured” by the gravity of Saturn and Jupiter.
Meteorites that can escape the gravity of these two planets and enter the earth by chance all carry extremely terrifying speeds, and some of them are huge, but we have hardly heard of any meteorite that hits with the power of nuclear weapons, let alone the “rod of God”?
So, after saying so much, is it possible for space-based weapons to become a reality? In the future, it may be possible. However, the successful country may not be the United States.
There has always been a joke on the Internet that the United States is responsible for bragging and China is responsible for realization. There have indeed been many such things in the past, and now the United States has brought up “space-based weapons” again…
Although at present, “space-based weapons” may still be more of a concept, but in the future, everything is possible!