MDA Press Release:
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency and U.S. Army soldiers of the E-62 Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, conducted an intercept test today of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element of the nation’s Ballistic Missile Defense System.
Preliminary indications are that planned flight test objectives were achieved and the target was successfully intercepted by the THAAD weapon system.
The test, designated Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-23, was the first time the THAAD system used a government-developed remote launcher kit that extended the range of the defended area.
