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by buildsjets 10 days ago
Everyone keeps saying that Sprint was a nuke. That is true. However, it also scored some kinetic kills during testing at Kwajalein.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YZZV464z9g8

I'm pretty sure that improvements in sensing, computation, actuation, and conventional warhead design over the past 50 years could have produced a reliable hit-to-kill Sprint. And in fact, some research was done on such a vehicle, the McDonnell-Douglas HEDI.

http://www.designation-systems.net/dusrm/app4/hedi.html