Weapons | December 09, 2008 | 6 comments

Lockheed Martin's multiple kill vehicle

source: http://gizmodo.com/5104917/

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The Lockheed Martin's Multiple Kill Vehicle will be the first anti-ballistic missile system designed to search and destroy multiple warheads and countermeasures using a single launcher. First, the MKV-L will fly to encounter the cloud of multiple warheads and decoys being deployed by the enemy missile. Then, instead of exploding, the MKV will maneuver through the threats launching several kill vehicles, each targeted at the different objects on the air, both real dangers and dummies set to deceive missile defenses.
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6 comments // Lockheed Martin's multiple kill vehicle

  • dank800
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      dank800  

    • I wonder how much this weapon costs? Probably enough fix an entire inner city school system, build several hospitals or provide education to several thousand college students. As an observation from a Canadian; you really need to start to get out of the military industrial complex. It really is destroying your country.

    • 3 years ago
  • rxqueen420
  • Reddi
  • cabinettags
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      cabinettags  

    • Thanks for this post, tpalmer. Interesting.

      Weapons system development continues merrily along it's way. No way to stop until the competition does.

      This is obviously the response to multiple warheads. An ICBM can carry a bunch of these and every single one of them is dangerous. Assuming this is approved & deployed then we have a counter for one more threat.

      Aside from how to build it and make it function, how to effectively deploy the thing boggles my mind. It would have to arrive in what has to be a small window; after the warheads have been deployed but before their different paths make them too far from each other to deal with.

      I despair of the world ever arriving at the point where we can use our brain resources to bettering our lot instead of killing each other off.

    • 3 years ago
  • 1percent
  • Dmitri_Molotov
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      Dmitri_Molotov  
    • 1percent:

      It's an ANTI-missile system you technotard. It doesn't have the algorithms to fire at earth, and even if it did the kill vehicles would burn up in atmosphere. It doesn't have the potential to be used for orbital bombardment. For that, you get several tungsten rods about the size of telephone poles. Each of those can kill a city anywhere in the world, but I believe it's outlawed by several international treaties.

    • 3 years ago
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