The Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) was a planned U.S. missile defense program whose goal was to design, develop, and deploy kinetic energy-based, mobile...

A kinetic energy weapon (also known as kinetic weapon, kinetic energy warhead, kinetic warhead, kinetic projectile, kinetic kill vehicle) is a projectile...

Multiple Kill Vehicle and the newer Multi-Object Kill Vehicle, the Kinetic Energy Interceptor and the Airborne Laser. As the inheritor of the SDI and BMDO work...

was planned to be deployed on board Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missiles, Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) and SM-3 Block IIA as well. The MKV technology...

The Interceptor Medium Range was first displayed in March 2022. It is designed as a hard-kill countermeasure that rams hostile drones, using kinetic energy...

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enough to justify delaying the introduction of the CG(X). The Kinetic Energy Interceptor program was developing new weapons against ballistic missiles...

from 576-E. The LC 576E is also a candidate site for launches of Kinetic Energy Interceptor (KEI) boosters. The USAF and Missile Defense Agency anticipate...

2010s. It is designed as a low-Earth orbit interceptor which destroys orbiting satellites by high speed kinetic impact. 2007 Chinese anti-satellite missile...

than their explosive counterparts. For instance, the canceled US Kinetic Energy Interceptor program was estimated at costing $75 million USD per unit. Another...

missiles and tank-fired high-explosive anti-tank (HEAT) ammunition and kinetic energy penetrators.[citation needed] It senses incoming threats via a fixed...

transitioned into becoming a contractor. Cumming's worked on the kinetic energy interceptor program. Along the way, Cummings served as vice president for...

does not contain explosives, instead relying on the projectile's high kinetic energy to inflict damage. The railgun uses a pair of parallel rail-shaped conductors...

terminal phase (descent or reentry). The THAAD interceptor carries no warhead, instead relying on its kinetic energy of impact to destroy the incoming missile...

nuclear-tipped interceptors, in the 1980s the US Army began studies about the feasibility of kinetic hit-to-kill vehicles, i.e. interceptors that would destroy...

submunitions) and protective shield. They are designed to destroy kinetic interceptors in space and in the transition (before entering the atmosphere) section...

low-cost, but effective complement to kinetic energy solutions to take out air threats. Brigade level higher energy lasers are used in truck mounted systems...

warheads. These missiles have been updated (2017) and use non-nuclear kinetic interceptors instead, to intercept any incoming ICBMs. The Israeli Arrow 3 system...

Oreshnik's warheads, even inert, can cause "a lot of damage" because of the kinetic energy created by their hypersonic speed. Satellite images later revealed minimal...

replacement for, the older Outer Tactical Vest (OTV) component of the Interceptor multi-threat body armor system, as fielded by the United States Army...

States Armed Forces. It was first used in the Ranger Body Armor and Interceptor Body Armor, both are ballistic vests. It is now also used in the Improved...

The Dong Neng-3 (Chinese: 动能-3; lit. 'Kinetic Energy-3'; DN-3/KO09) is a Chinese ballistic missile defense system. The system is generally believed to...

mechanisms: in guided kinetic vehicles, like the Multiple Kill Vehicle, or in the form of a satellite that can release a kinetic interceptor or a cloud of debris...

based constellation of about 40 platforms deploying up to 1,500 kinetic interceptors. By 1988 the US project had evolved into an extended four-stage development...

bought which uses an unspecified non-kinetic payload (likely an electronic warfare system or high-power directed energy weapon) which enables it to be recovered...

The MIM-104 Patriot is a mobile interceptor missile surface-to-air missile (SAM) system, the primary such system used by the United States Army and several...

Aerospace design featured a multi-stage missile with an infrared homing kinetic energy warhead. The ASM-135 was designed to be launched from an F-15A in a...

Earth orbit, which was hit with a kinetic kill vehicle. The ASAT test utilized a modified anti-ballistic missile interceptor code-named Prithvi Defence Vehicle...

provides 130 megajoules (96,000,000 ft⋅lbf; 31 kilograms of TNT) of kinetic energy at the point of impact. Independent studies of earlier missile versions...