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The US Missile Defense Agency chose Lockheed Martin the winner of the competition for the development of a new generation anti-aircraft missile to improve the existing GMD anti-missile defense system. As part of the project to modernize the national anti-missile defense system, in addition to the missile component, the radar network and related equipment will also be updated.
NGI (Next Generation Interceptor) - the project of the American aerospace corporation Lockheed Martin to develop a long-range anti-missile interceptor of a new generation for the national anti-missile system Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD).
The mine-based missile is designed for inter-atmospheric interception of intercontinental ballistic missiles. Operating in the GMD complex, the new interceptor should become the first echelon of US missile defense.
The company reported that the promising interceptor will work on improved hit-to-kill technology, which provides guaranteed defeat by direct collision of the kinetic warhead of the interceptor with an enemy missile. The implementation of the "hit-to-kill" principle, which guarantees knocking the target off course and its physical destruction, means the use of an active radar guidance system in the missile. Source
