NMD officials detail flight test criteria for kill vehicle

Raytheon's Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), built for the National Missile Defense (NMD) program, will fly in its first hit-to-kill test in late September under "contrived" circumstances that are intended to help insure the success of the system in the long run, an NMD program official said...

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