Posted on 03/11/2016 8:11:49 AM PST by SeekAndFind
MCGREGOR RANGE, New Mexico — The most advanced missile system on the planet can hunt and blast incoming missiles right out of the sky with a 100% success rate — and we got to spend a day with it. Meet the US's THAAD system.
THAAD (Terminal High Altitude Area Defense) is a unique missile-defense system with unmatched precision, capable of countering threats around the world with its mobility and strategic battery-unit placement.
"It is the most technically advanced missile-defense system in the world," US Army Col. Alan Wiernicki, commander of the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, told Business Insider in an interview.
"Combatant commanders and our allies know this, which puts our THAAD Batteries in very high global demand," Wiernicki added.
And that demand seems poised to rise.
On Wednesday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un claimed his country had developed miniaturized nuclear warheads, which can be mounted to long-range ballistic missiles.
The rogue regime's latest announcement is a follow-through pass to last month's long-range-rocket launch and January's purported hydrogen-bomb test. Negotiations to equip South Korea with THAAD have been ongoing since South Korean President Park Geun-hye's October 2015 visit to the White House.
As of yet, there has not been a formal move to deploy the missile system.
"The complexity of global-security challenges is increasingly causing combatant commanders to request more Army forces," US Army Capt. Gus Cunningham told Business Insider.
"With that said, THAAD is ready to respond to any request, at any time," Cunningham added.
If a THAAD battery were deployed to South Korea, depending on its exact location, nearly all incoming missiles from the North could be eliminated, as displayed by the following graphic from The Heritage Foundation.
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This is impossible!!
This is Star Wars fiction. This is nothing more than the wild imagination of the addled Ronald Reagan.
It will never work.
What Liberals assured us was “settled science” in the late 1980’s. Recall how they mocked SDI as Star Wars?
Let us all please remember that it was President Reagan who got this all started. This while the DemocRATS sneered about Star Wars.
” .... can hunt and blast incoming missiles right out of the sky with a 100% success rate .... “
further down in the article ....
” ... nearly all ..... “
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So maybe not 100%?
ADA - All Different Army
Not as bad as MI or AVN but almost...
Better nearly all than none or few.
Imagine what Israel would become now without the not 100% Iron Dome....
If another Clinton gets elected president, does this mean China gets the technology like they did the last time a Clinton was in office?
Agree 100%. Better nearly all than none. Hopefully, Israel now has this technology.
Will it be US only or we selling this to allies too?
Give the current administration, whose to say that the first deployment won’t be IN Iran?!
The “T” used to stand for “Theater”. This has been around for a long, long, long time. People have started their professional careers and retired on this one project.
Give the current administration, whose to say that the first deployment won’t be IN Iran?!
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Agree. And I am sure the sand people of saudia arabia already have their orders in.
Pretty amazing. No explosive warhead required! Just the energy of the impact takes out the incoming.
Also let’s remember that it was Clinton that sold$ our missile technology to China.
Another good reason to keep Hillary out of the White House.
Why so they can turn around and sell the tech to russia?
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