Hover from MDA

LOCKHEED MARTIN TEAM CONDUCTS FREE-FLIGHT HOVER TEST OF MDA'S MULTIPLE KILL VEHICLE-L, Wall Street Journal (Market Watch), Dec 4, 2008. Lockheed Martin Corporation announced today 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 objectivesThe full-scale prototype flew at an altitude of approximately 23 feet (7 meters) for 20 seconds, maneuvering while simultaneously tracking a target. "This test demonstrated the integrated operation of the MKV-L in near-earth flight," said Rick Reginato, Multiple Kill Vehicle program director, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. "This represents a major step forward for the earliest operational payload designed to destroy multiple threat objects with a single missile defense interceptor."

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[CrackMagick]

that is obviously fake people

[billyjackskin]

I'm not sure why anyone would think this is fake or computer generated. These hover tests have been taking place for over 20 years. Most of the vehicles were much smaller though and this one weighs in at almost 500 lbs. The net would burn eventually but it's special material not easily ignited. It's not plain manila rope that's for sure.

[weiszed]

Kill vehicles are the name given to kinetic warheads on interceptors. The idea behind this project was to put several of these in an interceptor to take out possible countermeasures on an incoming nuclear warhead so multiple missiles don't need to be fired to make sure the target hit wasn't a decoy (interceptors are expensive and use up resources on the firing station used to track other targets). Thus, multiple kill vehicle

[cheetos530]

Thanks for sharing this, as for the people claiming its fake.. let them be. The Technology is already here for alot of these prototypes and for the guy talking about Pressurized Air, Thats gotta be an awful big tank for the amount of time it was up, givin the multiple movements... I could see many more uses for this same technology in the real world. Nothing the DOD wouldn't mind funding.

[chillz27]

i know it's real and everything but this does look fake as shit, CGI style

[airsoftdude1990]

Thank you Obama for canceling such an awesome program....

[investornator]

MDA is its like Nulka decoy missile system?

[shaftster2001]

There are materials that will not burn in normal atmospheric conditions, ever heard of nomex?

[libbern]

Aha... Then it doesnt sound that barbaric:)

[libbern]

Cool demonstration, but why the hell does it has such a stupid name? Multiple kill vehicle...^^

[cyberhuninvan]

Where can I buy one? I think it would work great for frightening my neighbor's dog.

[bloutyben]

i think its cool

[jestertru]

Actually it's ancient. This video was made in the the 1980s.