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THEATER HIGH ALTITUDE AREA DEFENSE [1 record]

Record 1 2007-10-10

English

Subject field(s)
  • Missiles and Rockets
  • Counter-Measures (Military operations)
DEF

A ground-based theater missile defense system designed to protect forward-deployed military forces, population centers, and civilian assets from the entire spectrum of theater ballistic missile attacks.

CONT

THAAD negates incoming ballistic missiles utilizing hit-to-kill technology (i.e., kinetic kill vehicle) and will be capable of intercepting them in either the endoatmospheric or exoatmosphetic.

Key term(s)
  • theater high altitude area defence
  • theatre high altitude area defence
  • theatre high altitude area defense
  • theater high-altitude area defence
  • theatre high-altitude area defense
  • theater high-altitude area defense
  • theater high-altitude area defence system
  • theatre high-altitude area defense system
  • theater high-altitude area defence system

French

Domaine(s)
  • Missiles et roquettes
  • Contre-mesures (Opérations militaires)

Spanish

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