
The U.S. government conducted its first successful Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system intercept on Friday while using a remote launcher kit. In the test, designed Flight Test THAAD (FTT)-23, a THAAD system at the Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands detected, tracked, and intercepted a medium-range ballistic missile target. This involved cooperation by the Missile Defense Agency (MDA); Ballistic Missile Defense System Operational Test Agency; and U.S. Army soldiers of the E-62 Battery, 11th Air Defense Artillery…