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A missile is a rocket-powered weapon intended to deliver an explosive warhead quickly and accurately. There are many different types of missiles, ranging from small tactical weapons with a range of only a few hundred feet to considerably bigger strategic weapons with ranges of several thousand miles.
All of these weapons operate by achieving a high muzzle velocity, or starting velocity, typically up to hypervelocity, then colliding with their targets to produce devastating shock waves and heat from the kinetic energy associated with the relative velocity between the two objects.
The Global Kinetic energy missile market accounted for $XX Billion in 2022 and is anticipated to reach $XX Billion by 2030, registering a CAGR of XX% from 2023 to 2030.
Multi-stage hyper-velocity kinetic energy missile.A multi-stage hyper-velocity kinetic energy missile (HVKEM) employs a missile in a missile’ architecture, consisting of a first stage flight missile and a second stage kill missile with a KE-rod penetrator.
To conserve propellant (weight) and allow for effective guidance and manoeuvring until the missile is in close proximity to the target, the flight missile cruises at a relatively low velocity (less than Mach 1.5, typically less than Mach 1).
When the missile enters the lethal range of the KE-rod penetrator, the kill missile separates and accelerates to a much higher velocity (greater than Mach 3, typically greater than Mach 5) before crashing into the target in less than a second.
The total amount of propellant (weight) required to deliver the KE-rod on target is decreased and the guidance is made simpler by waiting to boost the KE-rod until “the last second.”
The missile can be set up to work with a variety of platforms and guidance systems, but it works particularly well with the base of TOW launch containers and platforms currently in use because it satisfies all of the operational, physical, and CLOS guidance requirements while maintaining the performance of the KE-rod penetrator.
