US Missile Defense Agency chose LockheedMartin Winner of the competition for the development of a new generation anti-aircraft missile to improve the existing GMD anti-missile defense system. Within the scope of the modernization project of the national missile defense system, the radar network and related equipment will be updated as well as the missile component.

NGI (Next Generation Interceptor) – The project of the American aerospace company Lockheed Martin for a new generation long-range missile interceptor for the national anti-missile system Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD).

The mine-based missile was designed for interatmospheric interception of intercontinental ballistic missiles. The new interceptor operating on the GMD complex should become the first echelon of US missile defense.

The company reported that the promising interceptor will work on advanced hit-to-kill technology that provides guaranteed defeat by direct collision of the interceptor’s kinetic warhead with an enemy missile. The implementation of the “hit to kill” principle, which guarantees the deviation of the target from course and its physical destruction, means the use of an active radar guidance system in the missile. Source