Raytheon's Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles upgraded with colour sensors

Raytheon has inked a $636 million (£400m) contract to provide Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicles to Boeing.

EKVs are high-speed projectiles that can obliterate incoming warheads and missiles by slamming straight into them -- at breakneck speeds of 10 km/s. Raytheon describes the concept as "hit to kill."

By: Mark Brown, Edited by: Duncan Geere

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via Wired.co.uk



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