The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle ( EKV ) is the Raytheon -manufactured interceptor component with subcontractor Aerojet of the U.S. Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD), part of the larger National Missile Defense system.
4-400: EKV may refer to: Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle , the non-explosive warhead of an antimissile system. Ekatarina Velika , a rock band from Belgrade, Yugoslavia (now Serbia) EKV (Enz, Krummenacher, Vittoz) compact/spice mosfet model Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with
8-567: Is boosted to an intercept trajectory by a boost vehicle (missile), where it separates from the boost vehicle and autonomously collides with an incoming warhead. The EKV is launched by the Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missile, the launch vehicle of the GMD system. The EKV's own rockets and fuel are for corrections in the trajectory, not for further acceleration. The successor to the EKV, known as
12-636: The Redesigned Kill Vehicle (RKV), was scheduled to debut in 2025. The RKV program, headed by Boeing and lead subcontractor Raytheon, was canceled by the Department of Defense on August 21, 2019. Earlier in the year, the Pentagon had issued a stop work order on the project following a design review deferment in December 2018 due to the failure of critical components meeting technical specification. Raytheon
16-459: The title EKV . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=EKV&oldid=581219940 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle The EKV
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