03 March 2016

Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system

The silo launched US Boeing Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system employs the Boeing Ground-Based Interceptor (GBI) three stage exo-atmospheric weapon equipped with a  63 kg terminally guided Raytheon Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle (EKV). The booster stack is built by Orbital Sciences Corp, using Taurus ELV stages (MDA).

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