A Continuous Rod Warhead is a specialized anti-aircraft High Explosive Fragmentation warhead designed to produce an annular or ring shaped blast pattern. It is made of an even number of identical steel
Why do anti-aircraft missiles use rod fragmentation rather than high explosives like Symtex as their warhead? - Quora
Why do modern anti-air missiles use shells of fragments instead of expanding rings of connected rods? - Quora
Why did they shoot the Chinese balloon down with a missile, spreading the remnants to wide area? A cannon would have left the instruments intact for analysing. - Quora
![Janusz Szczepan on X: "Clear traces of continuous rod damage on #MH17 near A2AM (A2GM) hole in the boeing belly. Proof that was F-Jet & DSB/JIT reports are fraud https://t.co/ukMp89ehAm" / X Janusz Szczepan on X: "Clear traces of continuous rod damage on #MH17 near A2AM (A2GM) hole in the boeing belly. Proof that was F-Jet & DSB/JIT reports are fraud https://t.co/ukMp89ehAm" / X](https://pbs.twimg.com/media/Ct8u4SNWAAARugh.jpg)