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 ...

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

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

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 ...

President Donald Trump has called for an expansive, next-generation missile defense shield for the mainland United States, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Trump’s order does not give any estimate of the costs of such a system, but several hundreds of billions of dollars would ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...