Given concerns about the previous programs using nuclear-tipped interceptors, in the 1980s the U. S. Army began studies about the feasibility of hit-to-kill vehicles, i. e. interceptor missiles that would destroy incoming ballistic missiles just by colliding with them head-on.

Given concerns about the previous programs using nuclear tipped interceptors, in the 1980s the U. S. Army began studies about the feasibility of hit-to-kill vehicles, where an interceptor missile would destroy an incoming ballistic missile just by colliding with it, the so-called " Kinetic Kill Vehicles ", or KKV.

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