Posted on 12/11/2023 9:44:53 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Test showcases the U.S.'s strategic missile defense capabilities
ARLINGTON, Va., Dec. 11, 2023 /PRNewswire/ -- An Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, developed by Raytheon, an RTX (NYSE: RTX) business, successfully destroyed an Intermediate-Range Ballistic Missile during a recent test of the Ground-based Midcourse Defense System. The test was conducted today in the Pacific region by the U.S. Missile Defense Agency and the U.S. Northern Command.
This was the 13th intercept for the program, which protects the U.S. by destroying incoming ballistic missiles while they are outside the Earth's atmosphere.
"This test demonstrates that the U.S. ballistic missile defense system is operational, reliable and ready to protect the country," said Wes Kremer, president of Raytheon. "Raytheon kill vehicles have now successfully completed nearly 50 space intercepts, which underscores our expertise and ability to design and develop these systems to defeat the evolving threat."
With more than 30-years of experience in developing advanced interceptors and sensors, Raytheon is the leading provider of missile defense capabilities. This test further validates Raytheon's expertise in supporting the Missile Defense Agency's current fleet of ballistic missile defense sensors and interceptors. Raytheon is currently developing the next evolution of ballistic missile interceptors and kill vehicles that will provide warfighters with a more robust missile defense capability against current and future threats.
Raytheon's EKV is developed in Tucson, Arizona and the AN/TPY-2 and X-Band Radar are developed in Andover, Massachusetts.
Wonder how soon the Chinese will have it!
Very encouraging. I wonder how many Democrats are involved in leaking design/engineering info to China?
10 seconds..
We think alike!! Sad but probably true!
“I wonder how many Democrats are involved in leaking design/engineering info to China?”
All of them!
Bernie Schwartz is long retired, and BJ Clinton retired, but there’s still Joseph Stolen.
“I wonder how many Democrats are involved in leaking design/engineering info to China?”
All of them!
A full poop scoop.
https://newatlas.com/raytheon-ekv/23371/
Watch Brandon give it to “Chyna” as repayment for the millions China placed in the Biden crime family bank accounts. Thanks Hunter Biden, you poor cocaine addicted boy!
All of these treasonous idjits should be wearing orange jump suits.
In another carefully controlled dog and pony show? Sgt York anyone?
We alll watched it here on the central California coast.
https://www.ksbw.com/article/us-missile-defense-flight-test-spotted-across-west-coast/46092203
Impossible! President Reagan’s critics assured us this couldn’t be done.
Well, let’s here it from Freepers who fear Russian nuclear missiles into nonaction.
It worked one time and that is considered a successful program? I can take a quiver of arrows and shoot them at a target 50 yards away, I might get one in the bullseye. That doesn’t make me a successful bow hunter.
No, but it does "prove" that it is possible.
Yes but the fact is, you don’t have smart arrows
One Time? How about 50 times.
Remember when the news media said only SUV’s were kill vehicles how times change.
Better practice up with that bow. It looks like they have had eight successful intercepts so far. All at around 22,000 miles an hour. With a kill vehicle that weighs in at 140 pounds, that's a bit more energy that you are going to get out of that arrow of yours. Let's see . . . Looks like about 41,936,045 foot pounds. What's that arrow of yours get? Maybe 75 foot pounds? It can probably do a little better than fifty yards too.
Just putting things in perspective. Credit where credit is due.
On the other hand, I think that you might take home more usable meat than one might if you took one of these things hunting. Pink mist for miles
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