Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun military a United States Army system to shoot ballistic missiles in their terminal phase.
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
Examples
-
Lt.Gen. Patrick O'Reilly, the director of the Missile Defense Agency, said Tuesday that a safety switch on the missile had failed qualification testing, forcing a delay in fielding the system, called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD.
-
The Pentagon is set to notify the U.S. Congress of the proposed sale, which would be the first of the so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, several people familiar with the matter said.
Archive 2008-09-01 Dave 2008
-
The main item, worth up to $7 billion, is the so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, which is built by Lockheed Martin Corp with a system radar from Raytheon Co, and could be used for possible defense against Iran
Signs of the Times 2008
-
The so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, is built by Lockheed Martin with a system radar from Raytheon.
Signs of the Times 2008
-
Congress of the proposed sale, which would be the first of the so-called Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, several people familiar with the matter said.
-
UAE officials have identified some elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense "that they think they can do without right now," Dennis Cavin, a Lockheed vice president for missile defense programs, told Reuters.
UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011
-
UAE officials have identified some elements of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense "that they think they can do without right now," Dennis Cavin, a Lockheed vice president for missile defense programs, told Reuters.
UAE said to trim planned US missile-defense purchase Reuters 2011
-
Standard Missile-3 is not the only antimissile system that the Obama administration is supporting, as it has also shifted more investment to the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, a system made by
Raytheon to Build 2010
-
SUTHERLAND: One of the systems deployed in Hawaii is called, in acronym Pentagon speak, THAAD - Terminal High Altitude Area Defense.
-
The weapons include: the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system, the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense system, Sea-based X-band Radar, the upgraded early warning radar, the Cobra Dane radar, the ground-based interceptors for the Ground-based Midcourse Defense system, and the AN/TPY-2 forward-based X-band radar.
Joe Cirincione: New Pentagon Report Slams Missile Defense Agency 2008
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.