Pentagon eyes new missile-defense sensor and seeker technologies to defeat ICBMs and hypersonic munitions
Jul 21st, 2021
Details of the NGI are not available, but the Pentagon’s request to industry mentions a single interceptor able to carry several kill vehicles.
Hypersonic Missile Defense 21 July 2021
WASHINGTON – The Pentagon is fast-tracking a Next-Generation Interceptor (NGI) to deploy missile-defense technology to track and destroy new enemy threats like high-speed, precision-guided intercontinental ballistic missiles (ICBMs) and hypersonic weapons traveling through space. Kris Osborn of The National Interest reports. Continue reading original article
The Military & Aerospace Electronics take:
21 July 2021 -- Mobile ICBM launchers, nuclear weapons traveling at hypersonic speeds, multiple precision-guided re-entry vehicles, and multiple missiles attack at once, each with several separating warheads all are serious threats the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) and industry are working to counter with a new missile-defense weapon by the end of the decade.
Intended to introduce paradigm-changing technologies, the emerging NGI is being engineered to destroy several ICBMs at one time while distinguishing actual ICBMs from debris, decoys, or enemy countermeasures. This requires a new measure of seeker discernment able to discriminate actual threats from decoys or track multiple threats at once.
https://www.militaryaerospace.com/sensors/article/14207220/missiledefense-hypersonic-seeker
