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The United States on May 30 will demonstrate its capability before the world to destroy an incoming intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in a warning to North Korea, and also to Russia and China.
Military sources said the goal of the test is to more closely simulate a North Korean ICBM aimed at the continental United States.
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The weapon to be used in this near space intercept will be the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle or EKV.
An EKV is launched by a Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) missile, the launch vehicle operated by the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GBAD) System. It’s boosted to an intercept trajectory by the GBI missile.
It then separates from the missile and autonomously collides with an incoming warhead.
EKV, however, is saddled with accuracy problems and had a string of test failures in 2016. In all, the EKV has succeeded in destroying only nine of 17 targets since 1999, a success rate of only 53 percent.
