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Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV)
Photo: Space Operations facility at Raytheon Missile Systems
The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) was
one of two Raytheon components that played
key roles in the hit-to-kill destruction of a
ballistic missile target in last year’s test of
the Missile Defense Agency’s Ground-based
Midcourse Defense (GMD) system. The
EKV intercepted a ballistic missile target
in space over the eastern Pacific Ocean.
The test marked the first launch from
an operational GMD site and demonstrated
the EKV’s ability to successfully detect, track,
discriminate and destroy a target in space.
The other Raytheon component, an
Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR)
system at Beale Air Force Base in California,
supported the intercept by successfully
providing information to the GMD Ground
Fire Control. The GMD system is designed
to protect all 50 U.S. states against limited
ballistic missile attack by intercepting long-
range ballistic missiles during the midcourse
or ballistic phase of their fl ight, before reentry
into the earth’s atmosphere. GMD interceptors
are in silos today in Fort Greely, Alaska, and
Vandenberg Air Force Base, California.