Have Rockets, Will Quarrel

... safe for the facilities that are being protected, but the real aim is probably to “close” the gap in the layered missile defence between the Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and the Patriot. Reuters The difficulty of using kinetic interceptors ... ... development of THAAD ER. www.mda.mil THAAD launch The Right Place at the Right Time? After the fall of the Saddam Hussein regime, North Korea and Iran automatically became the main opponents of THAAD, as the two countries were actively pursuing missile programmes ...