Multiple Kill Vehicle

The MKV concept provided the capability for more than one kill vehicle to be launched from a single booster.

With multiple kill vehicles on a single target "cloud" the probability for a hit on the actual warhead is enhanced.

Objectives of the test included having the MKV-L hover under its own power and prove its capability to recognize and track a surrogate target in a flight environment.

[2] On April 6, 2009, United States Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced that the Pentagon's budget would be reshaped.

[4] A similar program was restarted in August 2015, when Raytheon, Boeing, and Lockheed Martin were contracted to design a Multi-Object Kill Vehicle concept.