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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 anti-missile THAAD system in Israel used to intercept ...

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    The THAAD, or Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, was used to try to intercept a projectile from Yemen sometime during the last 24 hours, and an analysis would determine its success, said ...

  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 ...