There were some news earlier about some supposed undisclosed US orbital weapons, but I don’t see the point besides driving more investment to Lockheed Martin and SpaceX on hype.

Any kinectic payload (“rods from god”) will require way more kinetic energy to orbit and then deorbit from a ballistic trajectory. The terminal velocity will likely not be hypersonic without reentry thrust anyways. Any explosive payload would have the same issues as above, but also need to be able to be exposed to cosmic radiation for possibly very long timeframe with extremely difficult maintanence.

Given so much of current rocket warfare is based on interception and dodging interception, I don’t see the advantage to this. Maybe it reduces launch detection chances? Am I missing something super obvious?