IN FOCUS Timely interception A three-stage interceptor lifts off from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California June 22 on its way to destroy a long-range ballistic missile target in another test of Boeing’s Ground-based Midcourse Defense system. The target missile was fired from a site in the Marshall Islands. After flying into space, the interceptor released an enhanced version of the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle, which acquired the target, identified the target’s warhead, then intercepted and destroyed it through sheer force of collision. The interceptors carry no armed warhead but use kinetic energy for target destruction. PHOTO: PAUL PINNER/BOEING 48 Frontiers August 2014
Frontiers August 2014 Issue
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