THAAD 6.0: In a move to strengthen the United States missile defence capabilities, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) awarded a contract to the American defence and aerospace manufacturer Lockheed ...

The contract amount for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System will support its continued development over the next five years, with two options to extend for up to 10 years.

Lockheed Martin has received a Missile Defense Agency recompete contract worth $2.8 billion to develop the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, weapon system. According to an award ...

THAAD is designed to stop incoming missiles in their terminal, or descent, phase of flight, while Aegis makes its intercept in the mid-course phase, outside Earth’s atmosphere, before the ...

And given how there are few anti-ballistic missile defense systems out there as effective as the THAAD, more billions are now poured into the weapon developed by Lockheed Martin. THAAD stands for ...

In a nod to a similarly layered defensive structure, US Indo-Pacific Command said it used December’s intercept to test tracking capabilities of the US Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD ...