Anti-satellite kinetic energy interceptor

Anti-satellite kinetic energy interceptor

This is an airborne air-to-air missile that uses the kinetic energy of the warhead to destroy enemy satellites. The United States successfully destroyed an old satellite with this missile in the 1980s. The missile is 5.4 meters long, 0.5 meters in diameter and weighs 1.2 tons. It is installed on the F- 15 fighter. The working process of this kind of missile is: after the missile leaves the plane, it is guided by the inertial guidance system on the missile until it reaches the predetermined space point.

After that, the infrared sensor on the missile began to automatically track the target; When the interceptor reaches the maximum flight speed, its warhead is automatically separated from the secondary rocket. Since then, the warhead is controlled by a small computer, and the trajectory is corrected by the ignition and extinction of the small rocket on the missile body. Finally, the small impact killer in the front of the warhead hits the target at a high speed of 13.7 km per second, destroying it.