TargeTs and CounTermeasures
LV-2 IRBM Target
Maiden Mission
FTG-06
LV-2 Intermediate Range
Ballistic Missile (IRBM) Target:
Ready for Test
Payload Deployment
Module (PDM)
(Optional) Deploys
canisters & provides scene
generation; LV-2 can
carry 0, 1 or 2 PDMs
Avionics Control
Module (ACM)
Provides LV-2 avionics &
post-boost attitude control
Nth Stage Separation
System (NSS)
Separates boosters from
front end
Nth Stage Altitude
Control System (NACS)
(Optional) Allows for
booster dynamics after
powered flight
Nth Stage Avionics
Section (NAS)
Houses booster avionics
& mates C4SS to front
end via NSS
C4 Second Stage (C4SS)
Includes modified raceway
Interstage (IS)
Mates C4FS to C4SS;
stays with first stage
C4 First Stage (C4FS)
Includes modified raceway
Aft Flare
Shifts vehicle center of
pressure aft
OVERVIEW
Supporting increasingly complex,
threat-representative testing of the
Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS)
LV-2 Target
4
Next-generation threat-
LV-2 Specifications
Range
IRBM - 3000 - 5500km
representative ballistic
missile target.
4
Responsiveness in
45 feet long; 72-inch diameter;
representing existing and
65,000 pounds
emerging threats.
4
Measurements
Propulsion
Increase warfighters
Trident I C4 missile first- and
confidence in weapon
second-stage rocket motors
system performance.
Ground Support Equipment
Common Transporter and
Erector System;
Launch Control Van
Centralized Production and
Ship-and-Shoot CONOPS
4
Efficient production with
standardized components.
4
Fully integrated LV-2 target
system shipped to the range,
ready to launch.
Single Integration Capability:
Putting It All Together
The Missile Defense Agency’s Targets
and Countermeasures Single Integration Capability
in Courtland, Alabama, centralizes LV-2 fabrication, integration, testing and shipment. This
one-stop shop builds next-generation LV-2 target
missiles and delivers them to test ranges with a
Ship-and-Shoot concept of operations (CONOPS).
Here, common components are pulled from
inventory to build mission-specific targets.
Completed target systems then are shipped to the
test range, fully integrated and ready for launch.
This simplifies integration with the test range,
reduces time at the range and helps to contain the
overall cost for conducting Ballistic Missile
Missile Assembly Building 2:
Target Vehicle Integration
SInglE
InTEgRATIOn
CApABIlITy
Home of LV-2
Defense System tests.
Allows efficient receipt, assembly, integration, test and
storage of targets.
•Flight hardware placed in inventory until receipt of
mission order.
•Inventoried hardware allows quick reaction to meet
mission dates.
Courtland, Alabama
Single Integration Capability
Ship-and-Shoot CONOPS:
Integrate, Test, Transport and Launch
Ship-and-Shoot CONOPS means that
each target vehicle is shipped, fully integrated,
from the Courtland Single Integration Capability
to the test range. Flight hardware is integrated
and tested with live boosters, and then each
completed target vehicle is transferred to a
shipping container and sent to the test range ready
for launch. This approach:
•Reduces range time and infrastructure
requirements, and simplifies target system
integration at the test range.
•Improves the reliability of target systems.
•Helps to contain costs for tests of the Ballistic
Missile Defense System.
ShIp-AndShOOT
COnOpS
Shipping fully integrated
targets to test ranges reduces
timeandcostsrequiredfor
tests of the Ballistic Missile
Defense System
Ground Support Equipment:
Efficient Launch Operations Support
In 2009, Lockheed Martin and its
industry team delivered all of the LV-2 ground
support equipment to the test range for this
mission, where it completed line-of-sight testing.
Ground support equipment includes
the Common Transporter and Erector System,
which enables the target to be rapidly positioned
for launch, and the Launch Control Van, which
supports launch command, control, communications and operations.
gROund
SuppORT
EquIpMEnT
Program Milestones
1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 2001 2002 2003
Achieved 97% success rate in 33 out of
34 Lockheed Martin target missions
from 1996 to 2009.
Stringent quality standards yield
reliable targets with best value.
Current LV-2 Production Status
• Continuing target vehicle hardware production with
hardware being delivered for integration or placed into
inventory for future missions.
• Transitioning from LV-2 development to production and
focusing on efficiency and cost reduction.
pROgRAM
MIlESTOnES
2004
2005 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010
Inaugurated Single
Integration Capability.
november 2007
Completed component
qualification testing of
72-inch launch vehicle.
december 2008
Completed line-of-sight testing
of LV-2 ground support
equipment at the test range.
May 2009
Completed mission-specific, system level
testing in Courtland of LV-2 for Flight Test
Ground-Based Midcourse Defense-06 (FTG-06).
July 2009
Delivered LV-2 to test range
for FTG-06.
August 2009
LV-2 FTG-06 maiden mission.
January 2010
Mission Objectives:
LV-2 Target for FTG-06
Target mission objectives for the
FTG-06 test include providing and launching
an LV-2 target that enables the Ground-based
Midcourse Defense (GMD) system:
•To demonstrate its exo-atmospheric engagement
capabilities against a complex separating
intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) target.
•To demonstrate its interceptor endgame
capability for target intercept.
•To demonstrate interceptor acquisition and
tracking.
MISSIOn
OBJECTIVES
‘‘
Previously, we have been
testing the gmd system
against a north Korean-type
scenario. This next test... is
more of a head-on shot like
you would use defending
against an Iranian shot into
the united states.
‘‘
Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O'Reilly
Director, U.S. Missile
Defense Agency
Mission Events:
LV-2 Target for FTG-06
•Liftoff Meck Island
•Booster Staging Events
•Payload
Payload Deployments
•Target
Target Delivery Vehicle
Disposal
70
60
50
TDV
Target delivery
elivery Vehicle
RTS
rreagan
eagan Test site
VAFB
Vandenberg airir Force Base
GBI
ground-Based
round-Based Interceptor
MDIOC
missile
issile defense
efense Integration
and operations Center
LM DEN Lockheed martin denver
enver
ISDL
40
TdV maneuver to RV
separation attitude
●
●
30
Stage 2 Burnout
TdV
maneuver(s)
RV
Separation to generate
scene attitude
●
Stage 1 Burnout;
Stage 2 Ignition
20
●
RTS:
lV-2
10
140
notional
Intercept point
●
●
Integrated systems
ystems development
Laboratory
150
160
✛
170
180
-170
-160
-150
MISSIOn
EVEnTS
The LV-2 target will be launched from
Meck Island at the Ronald Reagan Ballistic Missile
Defense Test Site in the Marshall Islands.
The GMD Ground Based Interceptor will
be launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in
California and will destroy the LV-2 target over the
north central Pacific Ocean.
lM dEn
(ISdl
dl)
VAFB: ✛
gBI
-130
-120
✛
✛
MdIOC
IOC
-110
-100
-90
-80
-70
launch team members have an average of 18 years of
“LV-2
launch experience and a combined total of 124 launches.””
John Holly, Major General (ret)
Vice President, Lockheed Martin Missile Defense Systems
The Targets and
Countermeasures Program
Lockheed Martin performs Targets
and Countermeasures program management,
design and systems engineering in Huntsville,
Alabama; Denver, Colorado; Sunnyvale,
California; and integration in Courtland,
Alabama.
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency’s
Targets and Countermeasures directorate
oversees the design, development, manufacture
and integration of threat-representative, reliable,
and cost-effective ballistic missile targets and
countermeasures for the Ballistic Missile
Defense System test and assessment program.
The program also executes pre and post-test data
reduction and identifies target characterization
activities necessary to support the Agency’s
test objectives.
Sunnyvale,
California
pROgRAM
denver,
Colorado
huntsville,
Alabama
Courtland,
Alabama
Industry Team:
LV-2 Target for FTG-06
Subcontractors to Lockheed Martin (LM)
Space Systems Company:
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nOTES
Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company
Missile Defense Systems
4800 Bradford Drive
Huntsville, AL 35805
(256) 722-4066