LV-2 IRBM Target Maiden Mission FTG-06 - Lockheed Martin

LV-2 IRBM Target 

Maiden Mission 

FTG-06 

T a r g e T s a n d C o u n T e r m e a s u r e s

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

Supporting increasingly complex, 

threat-representative testing of the 

Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) 

LV-2 Target 

4 Next-generation threat- 

representative ballistic 

missile target. 

4 Responsiveness in 

representing existing and 

emerging threats. 

4 Increase warfighters 

confidence in weapon 

system performance. 

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. 

LV-2 Specifications 

Range 

IRBM-3000-5500km 

Measurements 

45 feet long; 72-inch diameter; 

65,000 pounds 

Propulsion 

Trident I C4 missile first- and 

second-stage rocket motors 

Ground Support Equipment 

Common Transporter and 

Erector System; 

Launch Control Van 

O V E R V I E W

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

Defense System tests. 

Courtland, Alabama 

Single Integration Capability 

Home of LV-2 

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. 

C A p A B I l I T y 

S I n g l E 

I n T E g R A T I O n

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.

Shipping fully integrated 

targets to test ranges reduces 

time and costs required for 

tests of the Ballistic Missile 

Defense System 

S h I p - A n d - 

S h O O T 

C O n O p S

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.

g R O u n d 

S u p p O R T 

E q u I p M E n T

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.

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. 

Completed mission-specific, system level 

testing in Courtland of LV-2 for Flight Test 

Ground-Based Midcourse Defense-06 (FTG-06). 

Delivered LV-2 to test range 

for FTG-06. 

May 2009 

July 2009 

August 2009 

LV-2 FTG-06 maiden mission. 

p R O g R A M 

M I l E S T O n E S 

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.

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 

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into 

the united states. 

Lt. Gen. Patrick J. O'Reilly 

Director, U.S. Missile 

Defense Agency 

M I S S I O n 

O B J E C T I V E S 

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Mission Events: 


• Liftoff Meck Island 

• Booster Staging Events 

• Payload Deployments 

• Target Delivery Vehicle 

Disposal 

TDV Target delivery elivery Vehicle 

RTS rreagan 

eagan Test site ite 

VAFB Vandenberg air ir Force Base 

GBI ground-Based round-Based Interceptor 

MDIOC missile issile defense efense Integration 

and operations perations Center 

LM DEN Lockheed martin denver enver 

ISDL Integrated systems ystems development 

Laboratory 

TdV maneuver to RV 

separation attitude 

● 

Stage 2 Burnout 

● 

Stage 1 Burnout; 

Stage 2 Ignition 

RTS: 

lV-2 

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140 150 160 170 180 -170 -160 -150 

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RV 

Separation 

notional 

Intercept point 

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TdV 

maneuver(s) 

to generate 

scene attitude

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. 

VAFB: 

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“ LV-2 launch team members have an average of 18 years of 

launch experience and a combined total of 124 launches. ” ” 

John Holly, Major General (ret) 

Vice President, Lockheed Martin Missile Defense Systems 

M I S S I O n 

E V E n T S

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

denver, 

Colorado 

huntsville, untsville, 

Alabama 

Courtland, 

Alabama 

p R O g R A M

Industry Team: 


Subcontractors to Lockheed Martin (LM) 

Space Systems Company: 

aerojet 

arde 

applied Companies 

aTK a | Bacchus 

aTK a | elkton 

aTK a | P PsI 

Ball aerospace 

Battelle 

Booz allen Hamilton 

Coleman 

Conax Florida 

delta microwave 

drs Technologies 

dynetics 

ecliptic 

ensign Bickford 

g&H Technologies 

ge Fanuc 

Haign Farr 

Herley 

Hi shear 

Honeywell 

ITT Corporation 

IW microwave 

L3 Cincinnati electronics 

Corporation

L3 narda West 

L3 Telemetry east 

LaBarge 

Lm Information systems & global services 

Lm simulations & Training support 

Lm uK InsYs 

orbital sciences Corporation 

Quintron 

Pacific scientific | Chandler 

Pacific scientific | Hollister 

Pacific scientific | Valencia 

Process Fab Inc. 

sCoT Inc. 

space and missile defense Technologies 

sparta 

stanford mu 

space Vector Corporation 

Taber 

Teledyne Brown 

Toyon 

ukroboronservice 

united Launch alliance 

universal Propulsion Company (uPCo) 

Vacco 

Vacco Wintec 

T E A M 

I n d u S T R y

n O T E S

Lockheed Martin Space Systems Company 

Missile Defense Systems 

4800 Bradford Drive 

Huntsville, AL 35805 

(256) 722-4066

LV-2 IRBM Target Maiden Mission FTG-06 - Lockheed Martin

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