US Testing Its Monstrously Powerful $1.2 Billion 'Thor' Hammer

According to defense industry reports, engineers on a test range in the American Southwest watched a tungsten projectile the size of a fence post leave a square-barreled launcher at over five times the speed of sound. Seconds later, a reinforced concrete bunker built to survive a direct bomb hit ceased to exist. There was no explosive flash. No fuel-air fireball. Just kinetic energy converted to thermal force so intense that the target simply vaporized. The program that reportedly fired it is known as Thor. And it is designed to do what no bomb has ever done—make the underground world above ground. Subscribe Here →    / @realhyperspeed   #Hyperspeed