kinetic bombardment

There were always those orbiting kinetic bombardment platforms to think about.

The evidence was obvious even from space as flashes of nuclear fire and kinetic bombardment sparked on the surface.

A kinetic bombardment may involve a projectile dropped from Earth orbit.

A kinetic bombardment weapon attached to geo-stationary satellites in orbit around Earth.

The only effect of the kinetic bombardments, so far, had been to make for some spectacular sunsets and sunrises.

"The report said they were using heavy kinetic bombardment and anti-ship cannons," Mike pointed out.

Therefore the weapon would be an extreme example of the real-life concept of a kinetic bombardment.

It is a non-orbital version of Kinetic bombardment.

Instead of an explosion, a violent earthquake appears to take place, which is again a characteristic of kinetic bombardment.

Since the West African slamdown war, kinetic bombardment from space had been the number one public bogeyman.

The kinetic bombardment platforms which had been used against Shan-wei were still there, sweeping silently in orbit around the planet.

There was no kinetic bombardment.

If properly positioned and inerted, it can be used to crush an enemy planet in an extreme form of kinetic bombardment.

It was amazing what a few kinetic bombardment strikes and pee-wee nukes could do to a city of thirty-six million souls, he thought.

From his altitude, it was easy for his enhanced vision, despite the darkness, to see how the kinetic bombardment had shredded a roughly circular zone over eighteen hundred kilometers across.

It is most often encountered in fiction, but has been proposed as a means of attack for several real-world weapons systems concepts, including kinetic bombardment and as a nuclear delivery system.

The film G.I. Joe: Retaliation showed a kinetic bombardment of Central London from one of the seven orbital weapons in space, dubbed "Project Zeus".

The unexpected kinetic bombardment wipes Keystone City and Central City off the map, killing the entire population of both cities along with Batman and Plastic Man.

Non-orbital bombardments with kinetic projectiles, such as lobbing stones with siege engines such as catapults or trebuchets are considered siege warfare, not kinetic bombardment.

A kinetic bombardment is the act of attacking a planetary surface with an inert projectile, where the destructive force comes from the kinetic energy of the projectile impacting at very high velocities.

The orbital kinetic bombardment system is used first to destroy the Soviet tank armies that have invaded Europe and then to take out Soviet ICBM silos prior to a nuclear strike.

"The kinetic bombardment and solar energy platforms are nested in the center of a sphere of area defense systems and passive scanners which no weapons at my disposal can hope to penetrate," the AI told him.

As other weapons exist, notably those using kinetic bombardment, that would not violate these treaties, some private groups and government officials have proposed a Space Preservation Treaty which would ban the placement of any weaponry in outer space.

Meanwhile, she is forced to remain concerned about the very same kinetic bombardment platform that killed her mentor Pei Shan-Wei and most of her supporters after the Church's founder Eric Langhorne used it to destroy her Alexandria enclave.