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Description ABM test vehicle (Homing Overlay Experiment).jpg | Lockheed built this unflown antiballistic missile (ABM) test vehicle for the U.S. Army's Homing Overlay Experiment (HOE). The HOE vehicle was designed to destroy a missile by physically impacting it - a concept known as "hit-to-kill." After separating from the booster, the vehicle would use its on-board sensors to identify and lock-on to the incoming missile and would use other components to direct it to impact. On the last of four HOE tests, a vehicle intercepted an incoming dummy warhead in the first successful demonstration of hit-to-kill technology in June 1984. The United States is now using much smaller hit-to-kill vehicles in deployed ABMs. Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center. | ||
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Source | originally posted to Flickr as Missile, Anti-Missile, Homing Overlay Experiment, (HOE) | ||
Author | Cliff | ||
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