The current Exo-atmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV-CE-II)
The Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV) will not be tested until 2019
The multi-kill vehicle (MKV) program was killed by Zero and will, if restored, not be operational until 2030 at the earliest.
Great find
Nice concept picture. Now for a bit of missing history. This is sort of Grandson of Ronnie’s Star Wars. Clinton pretty much ended that research to collect his peace dividend. Due to his belief that the best defense is no defense, soon a real Chinese nuclear treat and a potential future North Korean threat appeared. Late in his regime, plans for a missile defense system in Alaska were initiated. Turns out that the way God created the earth, Alaska is on the great circle route from China and North Korea to the US and is the best place to try to intercept incoming missiles. W inherited mostly nothing, but quickly installed the GMD system, bypassing the lengthy Congressional authorization requirements by designating it a “Test System”. The primary midrange radar (#5) for this is an x-band radar sitting out at the end of the Aleutians built to monitor the blurp part of the Soviet missile test range during the cold war the 70s, installed by Nixon.
The system really needs a somewhat similar radar in the mid-Aleutians. It is sitting in Pearl Harbor (#8). The radar was not built in the Aleutians due to construction costs. Instead early in W’s career, the military bought a retired North Sea oil rig built by Russia an x-band radar on it on the Gulf Coast. It sailed around South America for tests in the Pacific. The big 0 pretty much retired SVX before it became operational. We hope Trump has it turned on when needed.