Raytheon works to counter multiple-warhead missiles

It's one thing to hit a single missile hurtling through space — a bigger problem is when that missile launches multiple warheads in a scattershot attack.

Raytheon Missile Systems is working to solve that problem under a $54 million contract to develop a system that will counter multiple enemy warheads with its own barrage of projectiles.

The contract from the U.S. Missile Defense Agency will build on Raytheon's experience manufacturing the Exoatmospheric Kill Vehicle — a non-explosive, guided "kill vehicle" designed to track and smash into enemy threats outside the Earth's atmosphere — for the emerging ground-based Ballistic Missile Defense System.

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