Posted on 12/12/2008 4:17:07 AM PST by moneyrunner
Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test
Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly announced that a test of the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) was conducted Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Preliminary indications are that planned test objectives were achieved.
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And some 20-year-old kid at Nellis will be wearing a big ol' grin.
I guess the interpretation of the word ‘closer’ is rather wide. But...it’s a ‘move’ in the proper direction at the least.
With a thousand gallon fuel tank, it could probably stay aloft for 10 minutes.
The thing would be pretty effective at killing a bunch of people in the room, but I don’t see where the net end result would be all that different from a hand grenade or bomb.
During an actual hostile ballistic missile attack, the carrier vehicle with its cargo of small kill vehicles will maneuver into the path of an enemy missile. Using tracking data from the Ballistic Missile Defense System and its own seeker, the carrier vehicle will dispense and guide the kill vehicles to destroy any warheads or countermeasures.
In space it takes very little thrust to change direction.
And when your moving a few thousand miles per hour it does not take a lot of mass to destroy your target.
I remeber a similar test during the SDI tests of the 1980’s. What is different?
Well then, that’s a whole new kettle of fish. In space, that thing we mess up it’s neighbors very well. Thanks for the clarification.
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