US ‘successfully’ tests THAAD by launching ballistic missile over Pacific

‘The US military has successfully tested the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system over the Pacific Ocean, the country’s Missile Defense Agency (MDA) chief said in a statement.
“The U.S. Missile Defense Agency and U.S. Army soldiers of the 11th Air Defense Artillery Brigade from Fort Bliss, Texas, conducted a successful missile defense test today using the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) system,” the statement reads, as cited by NBC.
A medium-range target ballistic missile (MRBM) was air-launched by a U.S. Air Force C-17 over the Pacific Ocean,” the announcement says further, adding that part of the THAAD system stationed in Alaska pinpointed and intercepted the target.’

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