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The Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) is an interceptor made by Raytheon and Aerojet that is a part of the wider National Missile Defense system Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD).
A boost vehicle (missile) launches the EKV into an intercept trajectory, where it separates from the boost vehicle and strikes an approaching warhead on its own.
The Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missile, the launcher for the GMD system, is used to launch the EKV. The EKV’s own rockets and fuel are intended for trajectory adjustments rather than for additional acceleration.
The Global Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle 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.
Raytheon Delivers Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle Payloads for Fort Greely Deployment.The Missile Defense Agency’s (MDA) Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) program’s first deployable flight components have been delivered by Raytheon Corporation from its Missile Defense Kinetic Kill Vehicle production site.
The hostile ballistic missile targets that are intended to be intercepted by the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV) payload are those that are outside of the atmosphere. The EKV design, which has been successfully flight tested, was the source of the delivered payloads.
All EKVs needed for the GMD program’s initial deployment and testing will have been delivered by Raytheon.The initial payloads are the first of 20 death vehicles that will be delivered to Fort Greely over the course of the following two years for deployment.
Raytheon constructed a state-of-the-art manufacturing facility that combines the high standards of spacecraft production with the financial viability of high-rate missile manufacture in order to meet the GMD deployment criteria.
The Standard Missile-3 interceptor, which gives the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense programme the ability to intercept ballistic missile threats from forward-deployed Aegis ships, is also manufactured and deployed by Raytheon.
Moreover, Raytheon is providing the Space Tracking and Surveillance System payload, the BMDS Radar, the Sea-Based X-band (SBX), the Upgraded Early Warning Radar (UEWR) for the GMD segment, and the THAAD radar and battle management software. The Ground-based Missile Defense program’s main contractor is The Boeing Corporation.
