Hover from MDA

Posted by billyjackskin
Diciembre 05, 2008

LOCKHEED MARTIN TEAM CONDUCTS FREE-FLIGHT HOVER TEST OF MDA'S MULTIPLE KILL VEHICLE-L, Wall Street Journal (Market Watch), Dec 4, 2008. Lockheed Martin Corporation announced today that its team successfully conducted a free-flight hover test of the U.S. Missile Defense Agency's Multiple Kill Vehicle-L. Conducted Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif., the test met all objectivesThe full-scale prototype flew at an altitude of approximately 23 feet (7 meters) for 20 seconds, maneuvering while simultaneously tracking a target. "This test demonstrated the integrated operation of the MKV-L in near-earth flight," said Rick Reginato, Multiple Kill Vehicle program director, Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company. "This represents a major step forward for the earliest operational payload designed to destroy multiple threat objects with a single missile defense interceptor."
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MDA is its like Nulka decoy missile system?
shaftster2001 on 31/01/2010 @
There are materials that will not burn in normal atmospheric conditions, ever heard of nomex?
libbern on 22/12/2009 @
Aha... Then it doesnt sound that barbaric:)
weiszed on 22/12/2009 @
Kill vehicles are the name given to kinetic warheads on interceptors. The idea behind this project was to put several of these in an interceptor to take out possible countermeasures on an incoming nuclear warhead so multiple missiles don't need to be fired to make sure the target hit wasn't a decoy (interceptors are expensive and use up resources on the firing station used to track other targets). Thus, multiple kill vehicle
libbern on 15/11/2009 @
Cool demonstration, but why the hell does it has such a stupid name? Multiple kill vehicle...^^
cyberhuninvan on 02/10/2009 @
Where can I buy one? I think it would work great for frightening my neighbor's dog.
bloutyben on 18/05/2009 @
i think its cool
jestertru on 16/04/2009 @
Actually it's ancient. This video was made in the the 1980s.
Hadaway6 on 27/03/2009 @
Real life friend's dad works for The Defense Administration and was telling me the details of this. It's Real.
billyjackskin on 10/02/2009 @
I agree, DO SOME REASEARCH, if you have a computer and access to the web and are able to post a comment on Youtube, there is not much excuse for being a clueless moron these days unless you're just too lazy to bother.
volvagxier on 08/02/2009 @
No, you just dont bother trying to validate anything.... I love how there is alot of footage of the MKV out there too. DO SOME RESEARCH!
taigeto on 23/12/2008 @
as fake as Madonna´s age
otakonpop on 21/12/2008 @
INCREIBLE
arturopotter on 21/12/2008 @
that is so fake
ResearchX on 18/12/2008 @
Those are not bullets. Those are actually rockets shooting in different directions that stabilizes the vehicle and enables it to be moved in any direction. The concept has been used before with Dragon and TOW missle systems. Although the ToW is wire guided, it uses small rockets to move the missle in different directions. This appears as an attempt to develope a wireless missle system.
ralfsolo on 17/12/2008 @
it is not fake it is blank bullets, you moron, because it is a test.
SoCalSpooky on 16/12/2008 @
First off, it's a concept vehicle for a actual prototype defense system. This model does not shoot bullets, and the actual prototype shoots counter measures at potential threats; i.e. Commie Nuclear Missiles or Terrorist Biochemical Missiles. Swear the Commies and Terrorists are in this together. The Freemasons are funding the entire operation.
Dashater on 14/12/2008 @
you idiots calling this fake might need to do a little more of "google Searching" before looking like idiots. Lockheed Martin's MKV-L
laymarko on 14/12/2008 @
No. It's fake because it's launching pink unicorns towards the camera, but you see no horse manure. Fakity-fake-fake.
ddawguga on 13/12/2008 @
Concrete cannot shoot down ballistic missiles that threaten the lives of your family and friends.
jlamb27 on 13/12/2008 @
fake
FrenchConcrete on 12/12/2008 @
I wish they could patch the cement walkway in my local park.
cheetos530 on 11/12/2008 @
Thanks for sharing this, as for the people claiming its fake.. let them be. The Technology is already here for alot of these prototypes and for the guy talking about Pressurized Air, Thats gotta be an awful big tank for the amount of time it was up, givin the multiple movements... I could see many more uses for this same technology in the real world. Nothing the DOD wouldn't mind funding.
VileVeil on 11/12/2008 @
wasn't there something like this on the last Doctor Who series?
cargosquid on 11/12/2008 @
I, for one, welcome our new robot overlords. Hail Skynet!
investornator on 04/06/2010 @