Popular science article from 2004 saying they are 15 years away and only thing stopping it in 2004 was cost to haul rods to space.
https://www.popsci.com/scitech/article/2004-06/rods-god
If so-called “Rods from God”—an informal nickname of untraceable origin—ever do materialize, it won’t be for at least 15 years. Launching heavy tungsten rods into space will require substantially cheaper rocket technology than we have today.
https://futurism.com/elon-musk-with-new-spacex-tech-rocket-costs-will-drop-by-a-factor-of-100/
Long road to reusabity of Falcon 9 primary boost stage…When upper stage & fairing also reusable, costs will drop by a factor >100.
Elon Musk
Sep 14, 2017
https://taskandpurpose.com/kinetic-bombardment-kep-weaponry/
The Pentagon’s New Super Weapon Is Basically A Weaponized Meteor Strike
In the 1950s, Jerry Pournelle imagined the military equivalent of the extinction of the dinosaurs.
Toiling away as a Boeing operations researcher in the afterglow of the Manhattan Project and the Soviet Union’s First Lightning nuclear test in 1949, the U.S. Army veteran envisioned a weapons system armed not with munitions and other chemical explosives, but massive rods forged from heavy metals dropped from sub-orbital heights. Those “tungsten thunderbolts,” as the New York Times called them, would impact enemy strongholds below with the devastating velocity of a dino-exterminating impact, obliterating highly fortified targets — like, say, Iranian centrifuges or North Korean bunkers — without the mess of nuclear fallout.
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thanx for linking it up
DOD has their own launch pads at Vandenberg and at ESMR in FL. They are launching military gear all the time.
Rods from God are real. Their impact is equivalent to an atomic bomb without radioactive fallout.