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Tuesday, January 29, 2013

Unlike football, missile defense believes in 'Hit to Kill'

Pentagon deems interceptor missile test a success

"...The kill vehicle is designed to identify, lock on, and eliminate high-speed ballistic missile warheads while they are in space. The kill vehicle uses no explosives and destroys the missile by the sheer force of the impact. Raytheon calls the system hit to kill. The program has had failures in the past...."

Reference: www.slashgear.com .