So Patriot and THAAD will talk. What does that really mean?

October 10, 2018

Defense News:

WASHINGTON — The Army decided earlier this year to drastically accelerate its plans to get the Patriot medium-range air-and-missile defense system and the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system to communicate.

The service has since seen an influx of cash in its fiscal 2018 and 2019 budgets approved by Congress to move forward with the effort. But what does it really mean for Patriot and THAAD to be interoperable, and why is it seen as an urgent need on the Korean peninsula?

The Army announced in March, through its Air-and-Missile Defense Cross-Functional Team, formed to bring forward AMD modernization efforts rapidly under Army Futures Command, that it was planning to tie its two most critical AMD systems together within two years, which is key to establishing a more effective, layered approach to AMD.

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