US Missile Defense Agency video of the 2 December 2008 free-flight hover test of Lockheed Martin's Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV-L). The MKV is designed to allow a single interceptor to destroy a ball...
US Missile Defense Agency video of the 2 December 2008 free-flight hover test of Lockheed Martin's Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV-L). The MKV is designed to allow a single interceptor to destroy a ballistic missile equipped with multiple warheads or countermeasures. In Lockheed's design, a seeker-equipped carrier vehicle maneuvers into the path of the ballistic missile then dispenses and guides small kill vehicles to their targets. In its first test, the MKV-L hovered for 20 seconds in a special facility at Edwards AFB, California, while recognizing and tracking a simulated target.
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Newest generation ICBMs travel almost as fast as the explosion itself, so by the time the warhead exploded, the ICBM would have traveled past it. Unless you want to detonate it in the ICBM's path shortly before it gets there...but damn things move so fast that it's just easier at this point to slam some metal into it instead of hitting it with explosives which would require detonating the warhead before the ICBM got there which makes it more complicated.
The Multiple Kill Vehicle (MKV) in spite of its name doesn't kill anything (unless you drop on on your head). It intercepts and knocks down incoming missiles (designed to kill you) by sheer inertial - no explosives involved.
@truthlocker Sort of. I think what they meant by 'kill' is that it terminates incoming missile threats; i.e., it kills the missile. They drop multiples of these (in clusters) to intercept multiple threats.
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Thank you military. I needed flying popcorn of death. I will purchase that at Walmart next year.
Sort of. I think what they meant by 'kill' is that it terminates incoming missile threats; i.e., it kills the missile. They drop multiples of these (in clusters) to intercept multiple threats.