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  2. Terminal High Altitude Area Defense - Wikipedia

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    Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to intercept and destroy short-, medium-, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase (descent or reentry).

  3. MIM-104 Patriot - Wikipedia

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    The AN/MPQ-53 Radar Set supports PAC-2 units, while the AN/MPQ-65 Radar Set supports PAC-2 and PAC-3 units. The main difference between these two radars is the addition of a second travelling-wave tube (TWT), which gives the −65 radar increased search, detection, and tracking capability. The radar antenna array consists of over 5,000 elements ...

  4. THAAD missile system: What is the defence system sent ... - AOL

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    The system is equipped to communicate with a range of US missile defences, including Aegis systems and Patriot missile defence systems. THAAD doesn't carry explosive warheads and instead destroys ...

  5. AN/TPY-2 transportable radar - Wikipedia

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    Patriot PAC-3 is a lower-altitude missile and air defense system than THAAD. The AN/TPY-2 is a missile-defense radar that can detect, classify, track and intercept ballistic missiles. It has two operating modes – one to detect ballistic missiles as they rise, and another that can guide interceptors toward a descending warhead.

  6. US will send a missile defense system, troops to run it to ...

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    The United States will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, ... The THAAD is considered a complementary system to the Patriot, but it can defend a wider area. It can hit ...

  7. Integrated Air and Missile Defense - Wikipedia

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    In air and missile defense (AMD), the Integrated Air-and-Missile Defense system (IAMD) is a United States Army Space and Missile Defense Command (USASMDC) research program to augment the aging surface-to-air missile defense systems and to provide the United States Army with a low-cost, but effective complement to kinetic energy solutions to take out air threats.

  8. US says THAAD anti-missile system is 'in place' in Israel - AOL

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    The U.S. military has rushed its advanced anti-missile system to Israel and it is now "in place", Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin said. THAAD, or the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, is ...

  9. Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System

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    On 24 February 2022, testers used IBCS to engage targets using various mixes of radars, interceptors, and fire control systems from the THAAD and Patriot systems. [53] For example, in a scenario where a THAAD system has to conserve its All-Up-Rounds, IBCS can calculate which targets are within the reach of its Patriot PAC-3 MSE interceptors ...