What does KV stand for?

decision to cancel the Multiple Kill Vehicle program, which involved related technology, said U.

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As a result, aspects of the fielded ground-launched kill vehicles may not be demonstrated since no more flight tests have been approved.

The plan is to fire a missile that would release a "kinetic kill vehicle," a non-explosive device on a path that would enable it to collide with the satellite and destroy the spacecraft and its components by force of impact.

We operate on a hit-to-kill technology, which [means] we actually drive a very small kill vehicle into an enemy warhead to destroy it.

Starsys will design and develop a nonsticking cover seal system for the exoatmospheric kill vehicle, or EKV, program.

program's ground-based interceptor," and that the Pentagon has confirmed that the MDA will also "not pursue major booster or kill vehicle upgrades" for the interceptors.

Using information from both ground radars and its own sensors, the kill vehicle maneuvers toward a collision with the ICBM, destroying both itself and the incoming missile.