Today, Long Wall is announcing Cyclops: a new, surface-launched, exoatmospheric interceptor to defeat missiles in the midcourse phase of flight.

MODERN KILL VEHICLES At the top of the Cyclops stack sits an exoatmospheric kill vehicle, which neutralizes threats via a hit-to-kill impact, rather than blast fragmentation. Many of the hard technology problems in midcourse defense are in the EKV. Solving those problems gives us our greatest opportunities to improve cost and producibility.  Specifically, an EKV’s propulsion and seeker are prime examples of subsystems that can make or break mass production. Certain choices land you with a few possible vendors on the continent. Others can be built at scale.  This year, we’ve been obsessively focused here. We’ve built our first prototype and commenced testing. Now, we are confident Cyclops can be manufactured in the hundreds or thousands – not dozens – to achieve magazine depth for missile defense.

We are excited to have been selected as part of the @KratosDefense team for MACH-TB 2.0, serving the @DeptofDefense with lower cost and higher cadence flight testing. Read more about MACH-TB 2.0 below:

Flight 2 Static Fire Update

After a pre-flight static fire test on Friday, a residual pad fire caused irrecoverable damage to RS1. The team is investigating root cause and will provide updates as the investigation progresses.