MDA - Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) - Missile …
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element provides the Missile Defense System with a globally-transportable, rapidly-deployable capability to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles inside or outside the atmosphere during their final, or terminal, phase of flight.
Missile Defense Agency - U.S. Department of Defense
The Missile Defense Agency's (MDA) mission is to develop and deploy a layered Missile Defense System to defend the United States, its deployed forces, allies, and friends from missile attacks in all phases of flight.
Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army Test Integration of THAAD …
Preliminary results indicate that flight test objectives were achieved by the THAAD Weapon System, which fired two Patriot Advanced Capability (PAC)-3 Missile Segment Enhanced (MSE) interceptors that intercepted a Black Dagger target.
Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) - Missile Defense …
The Missile Defense Agency's THAAD System constitutes the upper tier of a two-tiered defense against tactical ballistic missiles, and provides broad area coverage against threats to military forces and critical assets, such as population centers and industrial resources.
MDA - MDA Leadership - Missile Defense Agency
Within the Department of Defense, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is responsible for managing, directing, and executing the Missile Defense Program. The president and Congress rely on the MDA leadership to provide guidance to carry out the mission entrusted to them.
The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element provides the Missile Defense System (MDS) with a globally-transportable, rapidly-deployable capability to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles inside or outside the atmosphere during their final, or terminal, phase of flight.
MDA - Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense
In 2020 an Aegis BMD-equipped destroyer successfully intercepted a simple intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM)-threat representative target with a SM-3 Block IIA missile, illustrating how the system could be used in a layered missile defense architecture, enhancing U.S. homeland missile defense.
MDA - Sensors - Missile Defense Agency
An effective layered defense incorporates a wide-range of sensors to detect and track threat missiles through all phases of their trajectory. Satellites and a family of land- and sea-based radars provide worldwide sensor coverage.
MDA - PATRIOT Advanced Capability-3 (PAC-3) - Missile Defense …
Provides simultaneous air and missile defense capabilities as the Lower Tier element in defense of U.S. deployed forces and allies. Works with THAAD to provide an integrated, overlapping defense against missile threats in the terminal phase of flight.
MDA - News Releases - Missile Defense Agency
THAAD System Successfully Intercepts Target in Missile Defense Flight Test August 30, 2019 - Ballistic Missile Defense System. Arrow Weapon System Successfully Engages Ballistic Missile Target July 28, 2019 - International Cooperation.