An article from the International Business Times titled “Lockheed Martin Team Conducts Free-Flight Hover Test of MDA’s Multiple Kill Vehicle-L” reports that the Lockheed Martin team was successful in conducting a free-flight hover test of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) at the National Hover Test Facility at the Edwards Air Force Base located in California.
The team was glad to announce that the test met all the objectives. According to Rick Reginato, MKV-L program director from Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company, the MKV-L represents major development of the earliest operational warhead that is intended for the destruction of multi-threat objects through a single missile defense interceptor. MKV-L works through the MKV-L and the Ballistic Missile Defense System data, dispensing and steering the kill vehicles to intercept and destroy multiple lethal targets.
This test was the first in a series of tests that would be conducted to prove the readiness of the payload for complex fight testing on board the ground-based interceptor of the Ballistic Missile Defense System located in Alaska and Southern California.
Lockheed Martin is an advanced technology corporation and a large multinational aerospace manufacturer based in Bethesda, Maryland. With about 140,000 employees worldwide, Lockheed Martin is engaged in the design, development, integration, manufacture, and research of advanced technology products, services, and systems.
Lockheed Martin is the world’s largest arms manufacturer and the world’s largest defense contractor by revenue, with the United States Department System and the U.S. Federal government agencies making up about 80% of its customer base.
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