Like Hughes vehicle, Rockwell LEAP fails to intercept target
For the second time in a row, the Navy failed to intercept a theater ballistic missile target with a kinetic kill vehicle, the Pentagon said yesterday. Rockwell's Lightweight Exoatmospheric Projectile (LEAP) flew on a Hughes Standard Missile launched from a Navy cruiser off the coast of North...
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