MDA conducts THAAD intercept test using remote launcher

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MDA conducts THAAD intercept test using remote launcher
Robin Hughes, London - Jane's Missiles & Rockets
Sep 3

The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA), Ballistic Missile Defense Operational Test Agency, and elements of the US Army E-62 Battery - 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade - on 30 August conducted the first intercept test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) rapidly-deployable ballistic missile defence weapon system using a remote launcher kit (RLK) developed by the MDA.

During the test, designated Flight Test THAAD-23 (FTT-23), a THAAD system deployed at Reagan Test Site on Kwajalein Atoll, in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, detected, tracked, and intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile threat representative target using a THAAD launcher positioned at distance from the other THAAD end items.

https://www.janes.com/article/90811/mda-conducts-thaad-intercept-test-using-remote-launcher

[B Stieg]

1. "Intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile threat"

Bet that made Vladdie et al really unhappy!