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Another Missile Defense Success: THAAD Kills Target Missile

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Monday, March 23rd, 2009

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The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, missile defense system scored another successful hit against a target missile, the Missile Defense Agency (MDA) announced. That successful hit was scored at 8:30 p.m. ET Tuesday night, in a daylight test conducted at the Pacific Missile Range Facility off the island of Kauai in Hawaii, MDA reported. At the controls were Army soldiers from the 6th Air Defense Artillery Brigade, Fort Bliss, Texas. THAAD scored a successful intercept of a medium-range…

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