The follow-on contract will cost $2.8bn over the next five years, with options to extend development as the Pentagon prioritise air defence.

Lockheed Martin has been awarded a US$2.8 billion contract from the US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) for a follow-on ...

The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded defense contractor Lockheed Martin a $2.8 billion contract for the development and ...

In a significant move to bolster the United States’ missile defense capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has ...

A Pentagon statement said President Joe Biden had ordered the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (Thaad) battery and its crew be sent "to defend Israel". Iran launched almost 200 ballistic ...

A THAAD battery consists of six truck-mounted launchers with eight interceptor missiles on each launcher and a powerful radar. Reloading each launcher takes about 30 minutes, according to reports.

Footage shared on social media Friday purported to show the launch of a THAAD interceptor in Israel against an incoming ballistic missile fired by the Houthis in Yemen. A US soldier can reportedly ...

Impressively, the THAAD interceptor does not carry a warhead. Instead, the interceptor missile uses pure kinetic energy to deliver "hit to kill" strikes to incoming ballistic threats inside or ...

April 29, 2015: The United States is encountering a lot of diplomatic resistance from Russia, China and Iran because of plans to deploy its THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) anti-missile ...

The US deployed a top air-defense battery to Israel in October after a huge Iranian attack. The THAAD system has now been used in combat twice — once in December and another time in January. THAAD's ...

Five minutes later a truck-mounted THAAD interceptor missile launches in pursuit of the target. According to the US Missile Defense Agency, there are more than 6,300 ballistic missiles outside of ...