Footage on social media showed what security sources later confirmed as the firing of a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery missile ... six truck-mounted launchers with eight ...

Lockheed Martin's missile launcher is just one element of the four-part antimissile system. The graphic below shows the rest of the components needed for each enemy-target interception.

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 ...