Lockheed Martin’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ) Weapon System Launcher With Eight Canisters. – Lockheed Martin By Lolita C. Baldor, Published by AP News, 13 October 2024 WASHINGTON (AP) — The United States will send a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense battery to Israel, along with the troops
Photograph Source: The US Army – Public Domain By Gregory Elich, Published by Counter Punch, 1 May 2024 Since the U.S. military brought its Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to South Korea in 2017, it has met with sustained local resistance. THAAD is the centerpiece of the numerous
Soseong-ri: The South Korean village fighting the US military By Bruce Gagnon, Posted in Organizing Notes, 8 March 2024 Soseong-ri, South Korea, was a sleepy farming village before the arrival of the US military's Terminal High Altitude Aerial Defense (THAAD) missile system. The THAAD base was built on a golf
APRA HARBOR, Guam (Aug. 11, 2021) - An aerial view of U.S. Naval Base Guam shows several vessels moored in Apra Harbor, including vessels from the United Kingdom Carrier Strike Group 21, Aug. 9. The deployment is the U.K.'s first by a carrier strike group in the Indo-Pacific for almost
Published by DNYUZ, 19 October 2022 SOSEONG-RI, South Korea — Do Geum-yeon, 86, has lived in this valley in South Korea all her life. During the Korean War in the 1950s, her village was so peaceful that she remembers refugees taking shelter in its humble homes and quiet hills. These
By Sakshi Tiwari, Published by The Eurasian Times, 19 August 2022 A few days after it was revealed that Saudi Arabia was all set to manufacture parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the first few sites for storing the THAAD systems were identified. According to a
By Ashish Dangwal, Published by The Eurasian Times, 17 August 2022 On August 16, BAE Systems announced that Lockheed Martin had awarded it a contract to design and produce next-generation infrared seeker technology for the US Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor missile. THAAD is a crucial component of
By Kim Tong-Hyung, Published by DefenseNews, 10 August 2022 SEOUL, South Korea — South Korea’s government stressed Wednesday it will make its own decisions in strengthening its defenses against North Korean threats, rejecting Chinese calls that it continue the polices of Seoul’s previous government that refrained from adding more U.S.
