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  2. Multiple Kill Vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The MKV concept provided the capability for more than one kill vehicle to be launched from a single booster. The system included a carrier vehicle with on-board sensors and a number of kill vehicles, each equipped with its own navigation thrusters and weighing around 10 pounds (4.5 kg). With multiple kill vehicles on a single target "cloud" the ...

  3. Ground-Based Interceptor - Wikipedia

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    The Missile Defense Agency leads the development of anti-ballistic missiles for North America. The Next Generation Interceptor (NGI) [21]: 4:13 is a MDA program to upgrade the kill vehicles for the ground-based interceptors, with different vendors, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman competing. [22]

  4. Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle - Wikipedia

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    The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) is the Raytheon-manufactured interceptor component with subcontractor Aerojet of the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), part of the larger National Missile Defense system. The EKV is boosted to an intercept trajectory by a boost vehicle (missile), where it separates from the boost vehicle and ...

  5. Comparison of anti-ballistic missile systems - Wikipedia

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    This is a table of the most widespread or notable anti-ballistic missile (ABM) systems, intended in whole or part, to counter ballistic missiles.Since many systems have developed in stages or have many iterations or upgrades, only the most notable versions are described.

  6. Multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle - Wikipedia

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    A multiple independently targetable reentry vehicle (MIRV) is an exoatmospheric ballistic missile payload containing several warheads, each capable of being aimed to hit a different target. The concept is almost invariably associated with intercontinental ballistic missiles carrying thermonuclear warheads , even if not strictly being limited to ...

  7. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense - Wikipedia

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    Kill vehicle control test. The test flight was aborted. There was no target in the test. 13 October 1995 Success: Launched to test its target-seeking system. There was no attempt to hit the target in the test. 13 December 1995 Failure: Failed to hit a test target due to software errors in the missile's fuel system. 22 March 1996 Failure