June 9, 2019
Missile Defense Fail: New "Super-Accurate Kinetic-Energy Warhead" Just Got Scrapped
We explain why.
by David Axe
U.S. president Donald Trump in early 2017 promised to reinforce the country’s missile defenses. Trump pledged more money for more and better sensors and missile-interceptors.
Two years later, one of the main programs that Trump boosted as part of his “Missile Defeat and Defense Enhancements†push quietly has collapsed. The military has indefinitely deferred Boeing’s Redesigned Kill Vehicle, a super-accurate kinetic-energy warhead designed physically to strike incoming missiles rather than explode near them.
"We will … develop a state-of-the-art missile defense system to protect against missile-based attacks from states like Iran and North Korea," Trump’s White House stated just hours after the former reality-television host’s inauguration in January 2017.
https://nationalinterest.org/blog/buzz/missile-defense-fail-new-super-accurate-kinetic-energy-warhead-just-got-scrapped-61807
