U.S. Army buying more EKVs to expand NMD test plan

The U.S. Army Space and Missile Defense Command is moving ahead with plans to boost the number of tests of exoatmospheric kill vehicles (EKVs) in support of the National Missile Defense (NMD) program. In October 1990, Boeing and Hughes Missiles Systems, now Raytheon, were awarded contracts to...

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