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The Low Cost Intercepter (LCI) program is demonstrating that an extended-range,
low-cost, missile interceptor can be developed and tested, using primarily off-
the-shelf technology and components, that will provide a cost effective means of
dealing with unsophisticated, air-breathing threat weapons systems, to include cruise
missiles.
The program is managed by the U.S.
Army Space and Missile Defense Command (SMDC). Miltec is the missile system
integrator.
Efforts, thus far, include the development and testing of numerous missile subsystems,
to include the solid rocket motor (built by Aerojet Corporation, Gainesville, VA),
control actuation system (built by MPC Products, Skokie, IL), seeker (developed
by Northrop Grumman Electronic Systems, Baltimore, MD), avionics airframe, and the
conduct of a short range launch of an engineering missile at Redstone Arsenal in
August 2005.
LCI in action
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Air flow over a model representing Mach 3.0 with an Angle of Attack
of 5 degrees.
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