The Pentagon announced it would be deploying its THAAD battery to Israel, along with roughly 100 soldiers, to operate it in an effort to bolster Israel's air defence system amid fears of a wider ...

Lockheed Martin operations in Huntsville, Anniston and Troy will share in the work, according to the Pentagon.

Under the contract, Lockheed Martin will be responsible for logistics management, hardware and software development and sustainment, missile and ground repair and return, engineering, and training.

Lockheed Martin's missile launcher is just one element of the four-part antimissile system. The graphic below shows the rest of the components needed for each enemy-target interception.

Here’s how the U.S.-deployed Thaad will bolster it even further. Photo: U.S. Department of Defense Some days the high-speed news cycle can bring more questions than answers. WSJ’s news ...

Last week during President Trump’s State of the Union, he declared: “As commander in chief, my focus is on building the most ...

the Navy’s sea-based AEGIS system; the land-mobile Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system (THAAD); or our Ground-based Midcourse Defense (GMD) based in Alaska and California. A key lesson of ...

The Royal Saudi Air Defense Forces (RSADF) has begun to deploy its first Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) exoatmospheric ballistic missile interception system, it was revealed during ...

Why China Opposes Thaad in South Korea The U.S. has begun deploying a controversial missile-defense system, known as Thaad, to South Korea, a day after Pyongyang launched four ballistic missiles.