> You can damage the entrances, take out the aerials, and cut off communication to a command bunker with hits in the right places. In military terms, it might a

> You can damage the entrances, take out the aerials, and cut off communication to a command bunker with hits in the right places. In military terms, it might as well be a crater, even if the occupants are unharmed. This seems like nonsense. Rebuilding an entire facility from a crater is so much work that you may just as well build it elsewhere. Fixing entrances and aerials seems trivial in comparison. > Hypersonics are missiles which travel through the atmosphere at speeds in excess of Mach 5. Equipped with tungsten penetrators, they could act as “rods from God,” punching through layered concrete like an armor-piercing bullet. With no explosive warhead, such weapons do damage through kinetic energy alone. Then what, though? Underground installations are not like bodies; you can't just expect to take one out by shooting through the brain, heart or lungs (which is hard enough to do as it is). Unless you're launching 100 non-explosive hypersonic missiles, you're probably not going to do much damage. Maybe the hypersonic missile can be used to create a path for a normal warhead to penetrate to where the explosive can do the required amount of damage. That's going to require some pretty precise needle-threading, though. Alternatively, the hypersonic missiles could have a core of extremely radioactive material.