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Thursday, November 27
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| 12:30-12:45 PM
Destroying Enemy Missiles Without Using A Warhead: The SM-3,
LEAP, and EKV: Ask an Expert |
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James David, Space History Division, discusses how enemy missiles are destroyed without using a warhead -- by using the U.S. Navy's Standard Missile-3 (SM-3) the Lightweight Exoatmospheric Projectile (LEAP) and the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV), which destroy the target by crashing into it at high speed rather than destroying it with conventional explosives.
Free
Continues 2nd & 4th Thursdays of each month
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National Air and Space Museum Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center
Location: Meet at the SR-71 Blackbird
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| Last update: October 15, 2008, 17:23 |
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