Weaponized Saturn V Project

The Weaponized Saturn V project was a project started by America3010 during World War III and subsequently carried out in collaboration by the entire United Continents of America region. The project was aimed at using Saturn V rockets as orbital weapons. Lots of different variants existed, like Saturn V rockets on Crawler transport systems or stationed in fixed launch sites. Some would fly into their target controlled, while other variants were thought to simply drop from orbit. However, all would have the same end: The target location would be hit by a massive kinetic strike and bathed in blazing rocket fuel. The idea of fitting an Saturn V with a nuclear warhead was dismissed. Weaponized Saturn Vs remained an integral part of the UCA's spatial armed forces throughout the Neo-Cold War with the Leninist Dynasty, though, like much high-end weapons technology that was to worthy to spend on minor threats, it wasn't used at a single instance during the Cold War.

Strategic Value

Although in netto effect dwarfed by a nuclear missile strike or "true" Ortillery strike, the Saturn V would still provide useful for limited strikes against even the most hardened enemy targets. Whereas a nuclear strike would cause immense collateral damage, the Saturn V would give an almost surgical accuracy (though not as effective an ortillery). By the means of the time it was used an deployed in, there was practically no defense against such a strike. The Saturn V travelled in LEO, far out of reach of any surface-to-air missile system or other anit-aircraft weaponry of the time. Once it dropped, it could still be intercepted, but the vertical drop and the extreme speeds made it nearly impossible to defend against the Saturn V, and even if the descending rocket would be hit, the defending force would still not only have to hit, but rather to disintegrate most parts of it in order to take the power of the kinetic strike. Note, that this is all theory, since the weapon was never tested on the battlefield.