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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Useful idiots. We should train the missiles to blow up over the source. No telling how much damage.
Russia has already developed a missile system that renders this thing obsolete.
Russia has already developed a missile system that renders this thing obsolete. I should also say that what I mean is that this defense system will not be able to stop the new Russian missile.
Yep! The Israeli general assigned to the program was outstanding in how he got things done. We could have never done that without spending an order of magnitude more money and taking much, much more time.
That is my concern also. Israel for sure and maybe s. Korea, not sure S. Korea could protect it from spying from the North. Otherwise we are in complete agreement, last people on earth that need it are Muzzies, I just don’t trust any of them. Within 3 months Iran would probably be building the things.
RE: Russia has already developed a missile system that renders this thing obsolete.
Do you know the name of this Russian missile system?
South Korea is probably less risk of successful spying than we are.
A chinese national worked on our b2. OPM outsourced support of the security clearance system to chinese.
Ten years or so ago, Israel asked *us* for permission to sell a quantity of Arrow ABMs to either India or Turkey (maybe both). I don’t recall whether the sale took place, but the fact that we were asked to bless the transaction stuck in my memory. Some of the technology is jointly owned, apparently.
Thank you, President Reagan.
You are probably right especially if Hillary can get her hands on the blueprints.
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