THAAD missile defense moving

May 10, 2022

The Guam Daily Post:

About six months of studies and planning by military officials has resulted in Joint Region Marianas publicly announcing it will move a major component of Guam’s current missile defense infrastructure.

At a media conference Monday, Rear Adm. Benjamin Nicholson, JRM commander, expanded on what that will mean for local residents. The change is one short-term result of on-island evaluations done by the Missile Defense Agency, in support of enhancing the island’s defense against hypersonic and ballistic missile threats to have “360-degree” protection.

That work helped to determine not only locations of new missile defense assets but also a better location for the already-deployed Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system…

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