Patent 7415917 was granted and assigned to Raytheon on August, 2008 by the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
A warhead including a hit-to-kill vehicle and a hub about the hit-to-kill vehicle including, packaged therein, a net and a plurality of rods held in a spaced relationship by the net for destroying a target when the net is deployed in the vicinity of the target in case the hit-to-kill vehicle misses the target.