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darklite_xdarklite_x I'm not an r-tard...Registered User regular
edited December 2008 in Social Entropy++
Introducing the MULTIPLE KILL VEHICLE a.k.a MKV-L
Missile Defense Agency wrote:
December 3, 2008
[FONT=Verdana,Verdana]Multiple Kill Vehicle Completes Hover Test [/FONT]

Missile Defense Agency Director Lieutenant General Patrick O'Reilly announced that a test of the Multiple Kill Vehicle-L (MKV-L) was conducted Tuesday, Dec. 2 at the National Hover Test Facility at Edwards Air Force Base, Calif. Preliminary indications are that planned test objectives were achieved.

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. During the test, the MKV-L's propulsion system demonstrated maneuverability while tracking a target. The MKV-L transmitted video and flight telemetry to the ground.

The MKV-L mission is to destroy medium through intercontinental-range ballistic missiles equipped with multiple warheads or countermeasures by using a single interceptor missile. During an actual hostile ballistic missile attack, the carrier vehicle with its cargo of small kill vehicles will maneuver into the path of an enemy missile. Using tracking data from the Ballistic Missile Defense System and its own seeker, the carrier vehicle will dispense and guide the kill vehicles to destroy any warheads or countermeasures.
The MKV-L development team is led by Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company.

The Raytheon Company is also developing a separate multiple kill vehicle technology (MKV-R) on a dual-path basis.

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Rumor has it that the 'R' in MKV-R stands for 'rHUMAN BEINGS' (the r is silent).

EDIT: Video of science-type shit on page 3 explains better than I ever could.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'll need video before I buy this for even a second

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  • darklite_xdarklite_x I'm not an r-tard... Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I'll have it once I get home from work. Damnable internet filters!

    EDIT: I can't confirm this is the right video (since I can't watch it), but the page title sounds like it's what I'm looking for.

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  • DichotomyDichotomy Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it's a good thing the multiple kill vehicle has a pre-programmed kill limit

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    it's a good thing the multiple kill vehicle has a pre-programmed kill limit

    unfortunately it then levels up

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    This sounds like complete horseshit.

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  • ZombiemamboZombiemambo Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    why does it hover

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I like how they don't beat around the bush with regards to naming the thing.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    why does it hover

    Because

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  • darklite_xdarklite_x I'm not an r-tard... Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    why does it hover
    What, is this a philosophy course now?

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  • KilljoyKilljoy __BANNED USERS regular
    edited December 2008
    Verdana is such an ugly font at that size.

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    why does it hover

    Because it's awesome.

    Just look at it from a salesman's point of view.

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  • TossrockTossrock too weird to live too rare to dieRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    It's got two stories on the Digg frontpage and a shit ton of youtube videos, it's real

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CwcQoTN4Tc

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Zombiemambo wrote: »
    why does it hover

    it says why right in the damn thread title

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  • FizFiz Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Tossrock wrote: »
    It's got two stories on the Digg frontpage and a shit ton of youtube videos, it's real

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CwcQoTN4Tc

    That thing scares the crap out of me

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  • Grey GhostGrey Ghost Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Dear god in heaven

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Tossrock wrote: »
    It's got two stories on the Digg frontpage and a shit ton of youtube videos, it's real

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CwcQoTN4Tc

    OH. MY. GOD.

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    that looks horribly inefficient

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    potatoe wrote: »
    that looks horribly inefficient

    Psh, what country do you think this is?

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    fuck
    i need to turn in my fun card
    that shouldn't have been my first thought

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    That barely even looks real

    What the Christ

    I'd be afraid to even get near that thing

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  • KovakKovak did a lot of drugs married cher?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it was mine too potatoe :(

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  • KovakKovak did a lot of drugs married cher?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    when do we build mechs

    god mech pilot themed porn

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  • NewtronNewtron Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    ridiculous.

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    This is going to make deer hunting so much easier

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  • The GeekThe Geek Oh-Two Crew, Omeganaut Registered User, ClubPA regular
    edited December 2008
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    it's a good thing the multiple kill vehicle has a pre-programmed kill limit

    Don't I know it.

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  • Penguin IncarnatePenguin Incarnate King of Kafiristan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    We're going to defeat our enemies with CGI?

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  • potatoepotatoe Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Kovak wrote: »
    it was mine too potatoe :(

    we'll never get jobs as fungineers now?

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  • Bad-BeatBad-Beat Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Is there still time to order one before Christmas?

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  • NewtronNewtron Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The Geek wrote: »
    Dichotomy wrote: »
    it's a good thing the multiple kill vehicle has a pre-programmed kill limit

    Don't I know it.

    wave, after wave.

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  • FishmanFishman Put your goddamned hand in the goddamned Box of Pain. Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Penguin Incarnate wrote: »
    We're going to defeat our enemies with CGI?

    Cultural Victory!

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  • MonkeyfeetMonkeyfeet Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    The CGI is supposed to scare our enemies into submission before we have to do anything

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  • bentbent Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it looks like a good way to make something hover in a menacing as fuck manner

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  • QuestionMarkManQuestionMarkMan Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    it looks like something I could make in Gary's Mod

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  • DoobhDoobh She/Her, Ace Pan/Bisexual 8-) What's up, bootlickers?Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    QuestionMarkMan wrote: »
    it looks like something I could make in Gary's Mod


    It did kinda remind me of a gunslingin' companion cube.

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  • Captain KCaptain K Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    okay so it hovers


    what else does it do

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Captain K wrote: »
    okay so it hovers


    what else does it do

    I guess it shoots multiple kill vehicles at missiles? Hence the name

    I have no idea what a kill vehicle looks like

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    Ok so this thing knocks missiles out of the air? With bullets? That's what the video looked like. But that looks like it's more for anti-personnel stuff. Can it go up higher to intercept missiles or something?

    The OP and that video don't seem to match up.

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  • LednehLedneh shinesquawk Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    My first thought was that it looks hopelessly impractical. Think I need to turn in my fun card, too

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  • trentsteeltrentsteel Registered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I dunno I mean, if you had a suitcase with a thing like that in it and it could guide itself into an enemy building it would be pretty useful. I still don't get what it has to do with ICMBS though. I mean can it go up into the atmosphere?

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited December 2008
    I believe kill vehicles are larger than bullets trent

    But I'm not sure I don't know about kill vehicles

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