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In addition to developing "boost phase" defenses like Airborne Laser, the agency focused efforts on fielding "hit-to-kill" systems — rocket-launched interceptors that would steer into the path of an incoming m issile and destroy warheads by sheer impact.
Pentagon Loses War to Zap Airborne Laser From Budget Nathan Hodge 2011
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Unfortunately, the extremely high likelihood is that the MDA's impressively high hit-to-kill ratio given above is a complete fraud.
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None of these techniques is fully proven, but neither was the hit-to-kill technology begun by President Reagan and later successfully deployed by President Bush.
Tough Calls, Good Calls J.D. Crouch II 2008
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None of these techniques is fully proven, but neither was the hit-to-kill technology begun by President Reagan and later successfully deployed by President Bush.
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Over the weekend, a test of our “hit-to-kill” missile defense system succeeded over the Pacific, providing an excellent backdrop to the Bush-Putin meeting in Genoa.
Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007
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Over the weekend, a test of our “hit-to-kill” missile defense system succeeded over the Pacific, providing an excellent backdrop to the Bush-Putin meeting in Genoa.
Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007
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Over the weekend, a test of our “hit-to-kill” missile defense system succeeded over the Pacific, providing an excellent backdrop to the Bush-Putin meeting in Genoa.
Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007
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Over the weekend, a test of our “hit-to-kill” missile defense system succeeded over the Pacific, providing an excellent backdrop to the Bush-Putin meeting in Genoa.
Surrender is not an Option John Bolton 2007
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RONALD KADISH, DIRECTOR, BALLISTIC MISSILE DEFENSE: ... hit-to-kill technology.
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Any short-range, intermediate-range and long-range missiles remaining in the targeted country will in theory be destroyed after launching by kinetic, "hit-to-kill" interceptor missiles.
WHAT REALLY HAPPENED ladylove 2010
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http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/foreigners/2015/09/why_drivers_in_china_intentionally_kill_the_pedestrians_they_hit_china_s.single.html
Hit-to-kill cases continue, and hit-to-kill drivers regularly escape serious punishment. In January a woman was caught on video repeatedly driving over an old man who had slipped in the snow. In April a school bus driver in Shuangcheng was accused of driving over a 5-year-old girl again and again. In May a security camera filmed a truck driver running over a young boy four times; the driver claimed that he had never noticed the child.
September 5, 2015