MKV Hover Test 2DEC08 (3 camera angles 1:35 min)

Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) Hover Test

Lockheed Martin has announced that its team successfully conducted a free-flight hover test of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Multiple Kill Vehicle-L. Conducted Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., the test met all objectives

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• military vehicle test
• hovering
• space age weapons
• flight
• flying

[onyxgirl4life]

lol amazing how not even ONE bullet hits the camera. and how exactly are you s'posed to reload it without being killed, since it's "motion activated?" and how do you transport the thing? and why doesn't it break the nat? BECAUSE I CALL SHENANIGAINS!!!

[popeTNT]

yet another idiot whom can't do research before posting.

[popeTNT]

for the people that have a hard time understanding go the the Lockheed Martin website and search for MKV

Read -- then come back and post

you just may learn that by searching for facts you wont seem so brainless.

[musicguyguy]

It only has 360 degree range on a single plane. Someone from the side can easily intercept and destroy it.

Why aren't the bullets destroying the nets?

How the hell does it manage to stay hovering so perfectly when there are a couple hundred bullets flying out from every side?

[popeTNT]

They're not bullets. It's jet propulsion - This KMV is designed to intercept warheads(milssles / or the liking) in higher atmospheres.

[popeTNT]

Lockheed Martin s Multiple Kill Vehicle is a system designed to intercept and destroy incoming ballistic missiles, the more advanced of which now come with a whole fleet of decoy warheads. The MKV-L autonomously maneuvers through the decoys and releases smaller destroyer vehicles to deal with whatever it decides is dangerous. The impressive part is the autonomous tracking and maneuvering

[gerry301]

@onyxgirl4life Lady with all due respect, you are way behind the learning curve, this is a vehicle in space that manuevers to its target via short blasts of energy. Any "Bullets" it may have, being high explosive would be released at the finale moments, either separately, or in multiples of up to six (should the ICBM, meaning: Inter- Continental- Ballistic- Missle- deploy decoys. (Fake warheads), are no longer a problem as your current president has cancelled the program. Feel better now?

[anvb5a1]

Is this 3D??? looks like a bad video game to me...

[1968DartGTS]

Funny how folks thought it was shooting rounds. What surprised me was how steady it maintained its hover in gravity. Was it programmed to move right like it did? Good demo.

[saccerzd]

haha great fake. i call shenanigans also :)

[mugicfan1]

When I watched this video, I thought it was for Halo or something. And then I read that it was supposed to be by Lockheed Martin, and I'm like, wtf?