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A Multiple Independent Kill Vehicle, also known as MIKVs is a special missile delivery system that contains as many as a dozen independently targetable, smaller, warheads. They are used mainly for the element of surprise, as the smaller kill vehicles contained inside the launched vehicle are usually used to try and overwhelm a target, because single missile would appear on an enemies scanners and then, when within a preset range, split into dozens of smaller independant warheads. Usually anti-missile systems like Point Defense Lasers are overwhelmed by this kind of barrage. MIKVs are also extremely effective and efficient for large scale bombardment of a given region, as they can be used in a manner similar to clusterbombs. Usually only Commonwealth vessels use them, but galactic powers like the Than-Thre-Kull, and the Nietzscheans have been known to use them. During the long night they were used prolifically, although in the modern era they are mostly deployed in ship-to-ship combat.
The Commonwealth ship Andromeda Ascendant uses PM-6LII Strategic Star Arrow MIKVs.