THAAD system intercepts target missile
Stars & Stripes reports that an Alaska-based Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD) intercepted a ballistic missile that had been launched from a C-17 aircraft somewhere over the Pacific Ocean.
Soldiers from the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade out of Fort Bliss, Texas, conducted launcher, fire-control and radar operations using the same procedures they would use in a real-world scenario, the statement said. The team was not aware of when the target missile would be launched.
“In addition to successfully intercepting the target, the data collected will allow MDA to enhance the THAAD weapon system, our modeling and simulation capabilities, and our ability to stay ahead of the evolving threat,” Lt. Gen. Sam Greaves, MDA’s director, said in the statement.
From UPI, the South Korean government is eager to establish more THAAD sites in spite of local protesters;
Seoul’s defense minister also said South Korea’s self-developed defense systems are not currently adequate enough to strike incoming North Korea missiles, including the “intercontinental ballistic missile” Pyongyang launched Friday.
Song added it is too early to tell whether the test resulted in successful atmospheric re-entry of a North Korean warhead, and it is unknown whether North Korea has the capability to mount a nuclear warhead on the missile tested over the weekend.
Protesters are worried about THAAD radar’s electromagnetic radiation. I wonder how they feel about thermo-nuclear radiation.
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Sometimes protesters just need to be ignored.
“Protesters are worried about THAAD radar’s electromagnetic radiation”
If not that it would have been the paint used.
Or that the warning signs were not in all languages. Or the operators are not LGBT compliant or……
Are they afraid those EMRs will make them sterile? One can only hope….
“I wonder how they feel about thermonuclear radiation.” That’s a good question. Hey, hippies! How d’you feel about this one blowing up down the block from you?
IIRC, THAAD is designed to intercept an ICBM’s ballistic path at apogee (highest point before beginning the fall back to Earth’s surface).
Wouldn’t the NORKs use theater (ie, short range, low altitude, maybe even cruise-type missiles) weapons on Seoul? Patriots seem a better fit.
Am I missing something?
Here’s the Wikipedia page on THAAD, formerly referred to as “Theater High Altitude Area Defense”: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Terminal_High_Altitude_Area_Defense and specifically referencing “short, medium, and intermediate range ballistic missiles”.
I wish they would launch a few dozen cruise missiles right up NDtBF’s ass and end this idiots time on this planet! I’m sure they know where he is at all times!
“Protesters are worried about THAAD radar’s electromagnetic radiation.” Considering where the systems are deployed, the protestors are getting more electromagnetic radiation from the cell phones they’re using to bitch to one another with.
It seems that there’s only one way this is going to end, ad the only question is when… that fat bastard is at some point going to launch a nuke… the united nations won’t do shit before that, and when he does, the only appropriate response it to hopefully knock it out of the sky, and to respond with launches of our own, taking out every major city, and whatever hole that fat shit is hiding in… While China and Russia talk a good game, i seriously doubt that they will risk their own countries to back up that psychotic shit…
No matter what happens, our government won’t use nukes to retaliate against NK, because the little slug is close neighbors with both allies and trading partners of ours. We might invade, we might do a lot of things, but we won’t risk irradiating friends and allies.
Can’t they just put that shit into artillery form and lob it several miles right into worst Korea’s capital?
Screw trying to hit missiles when the enemy has so much in rage artillery.
That’s why I say we need The Hulk. When he’s not busy lobbing rail car loads of Mexicans back DEEP into Mexico, he could be lobbing MOAB’s onto downtown Pyongyang.