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

The US military then redesigned THAAD and carried out 18 intercept tests between 2006 and 2019 — four were canceled before ...

The THAAD interceptor has a launch mass of 900 kg and a length of 6.17 meters. It can intercept fast-moving targets above the stratosphere at altitudes of 150-200 kilometers, with a range of up to ...

Footage on social media showed what security sources later confirmed as the firing of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery missile to intercept a Houthi attack from Yemen early on ...

They did not elaborate on the circumstances of the incident, the kind of missile attack THAAD was designed to counter. Footage shared on social media Friday purported to show the launch of a THAAD ...

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 ...

They are also accused of leaking the plans by U.S. and Korean forces to replace a THAAD battery missile to activists and China. (Yonhap) ...

Impressively, the THAAD missile does not carry a warhead, it uses pure kinetic energy to deliver "hit-to-kill" lethality to ballistic missiles inside or outside of the atmosphere. Each launcher ...