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MIRV stands for Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles. The top of the missile contains multiple warheads in a housing that looks like one giant warhead. All these warheads go up as one unit and reenter separately, hence the name (Multiple Independent Reentry Vehicles). So tell me again how do u shoot a MIRV missile with a MIRV missile?You require a MIRV capable missile to stop a MIRV warhead as you require multiple interceptors to stop an incoming MIRV. And the interceptor carrier jacket of MIRV can be used for target detection sensors.
Instead the best way to counter a MIRV missile is intercepting it soon after its launched and is still one unit(aka the warheads are still together). This is usually done by sattelite detection of the missile launch and trajectory tracking.
The second way is radar detection of the multiple incoming warheads and then shooting a missile at each one individually. It's much harder to achieve 100% success rate in this case. The amount of time to detect, track and intercept all of these is very limited. Again MIRV missile is not used to defeat MIRV missile.