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New Terminal High Altitude Defense Battery

October 20, 2009 :: The Missile Defense Agency :: News

On Friday, the Army brought its second THAAD battery online at Fort Bliss in Texas. Developed by the Missile Defense Agency as one layer of the integrated Ballistic Missile Defense System of the U.S., THAAD has had a flawless test success rate in the latest round of increasingly realistic testing. The Missile Defense Agency has listed the new components at Fort Bliss as "THAAD interceptors, launchers, a fire control and communications unit and radar."

The first THAAD unit to go online (in May of 2008, and also at Fort Bliss) was tasked with strategic deployment around the globe "in support of geographic combatant commander's priorities." (Article)

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