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THAAD Headed To Romania While Aegis Ashore Gets Maintenance

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

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THAAD Headed To Romania While Aegis Ashore Gets Maintenance

A THAAD interceptor is launched from Kodiak, Alaska during Flight Experiment THAAD (FET)-01 on July 30, 2017. (Photo: Missile Defense Agency)

The U.S. Army is deploying a Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system to Romania this summer while the Aegis Ashore system undergoes maintenance, United States European Command (EUCOM) said Thursday. EUCOM said the THAAD will be deployed to integrate with the NATO ballistic missile defense (BMD) architecture “during a limited period of scheduled maintenance and updates” on the Romanian Aegis Ashore system during the summer. THAAD will support the Aegis Ashore mission at Naval Support Facility Deveselu. Once the…

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