The Pentagon’s Theater High Altitude Area Defense ballistic missile defense system is one of DoD’s most deployed and operational systems, as it is shown to be extremely effective and critical to ...

New: China’s military carried out snap drills Monday encircling the democratic island of Taiwan, and it did so with no 24-hour notification, no specific locations announced, and no end date for what ...

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Unusually, the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) missile does not have an explosive warhead. Instead, it takes down incoming projectiles by colliding directly with them. The Terminal High ...

The THAAD defense system is one of the US military’s most powerful anti-missile weapons, capable of intercepting ballistic missiles at ranges of 150 to 200 kilometers (93 to 124 miles) and with a near ...