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Missile Defense Watch: THAAD Missile Defense Test is Successful

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Missile-Defense System Test Succeeds

The military shot down a Scud-type missile in this year’s second successful test of a new technology meant to knock down ballistic missiles in their final minute of flight, the Missile Defense Agency said Friday.

A ship off Kauai fired a target missile before 9 p.m. Hawaii Standard Time Thursday. Three minutes later, soldiers with the U.S. Army’s 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade launched an interceptor missile from Kauai that destroyed the target over the Pacific, according to the agency.

The military says it already can shoot down missiles in their last stage of flight by using Patriot anti-missile batteries. But the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system would be able to protect larger areas than the Patriot system because it intercepts targets at a higher altitude, said agency spokeswoman Pam Rogers.

The new system had its first successful test last year at White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. It had another successful test Jan. 27 at the Pacific Missile Range Facility on Kauai.

Flap wrote about the first successful test last year in New Mexico. Since last July the Missile Defense Agency has moved the test site to Hawaii due to space requirements.

The press release from the Missile Defense Agency is here.

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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD)

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Remember what Brig. Gen. Patrick O’Reilly, deputy director of the Pentagon’s Missile Defense Agency said in January – United States Missile Defense will be operational within the year.

Another successful test and another segment of missile defense goes online.

Flap wonders how many of these THAAD systems will be initially sold to Israel?

Flap bets many………

Here is a video of presumably the January 2007 THAAD test in Hawaii:

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