Missile Defense Announces Successful Flight Test

On Friday July 14 at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, flight tests were conducted on parts of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THADD) portion of Ground Based Missile Defense System, part of which is located at Fort Greely. THADD is only one component of the combined land, sea and air based system, but is considered critical to success as it is designed to engage targets both in and out of earth's atmosphere. A HERA target missile was successfully locked onto, intercepted and destroyed, making this third test flight a success. THADD's mobility and flexibility provides long, medium and short range defense capabilities. For more information, read the entire article here