When North Korea has threatened to launch Taepodong-2 ICBMs toward Hawaii, the US has temporarily deployed THAAD missile batteries to the facility.

THAAD was designed to hit Scuds and similar weapons, but also has a limited capability against ICBMs.

Although originally a U. S. Army program, THAAD has come under the umbrella of the Missile Defense Agency.

The THAAD program relocated their testing operations from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico and conducted its first demonstration at PMRF on 26 January 2007.

During THAAD flight test FTT-11 on December 11, 2009, the Hera target missile failed to ignite following its airborne deployment, subsequently crashing into the ocean.

The Ticonderoga-class cruiser USS Port Royal, Spain's Álvaro de Bazán class frigate MÉNDEZ NÚÑEZ ( F-104 ), and MDA's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense ( THAAD ) mobile ground-based radar also participated in the flight test.

The X-Band radar and the THAAD will provide an " extra layer of defense ," supplementing Patriot batteries that are used to counter lower-altitude rockets, said Riki Ellison, chairman of the Missile Defense Advocacy Alliance.

* THAAD system fire control radar

In addition, the U. S. Army is considering acquiring additional Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, or THAAD, antimissile systems, said a senior defense official.

This system was never deployed, but the technology of the system was used in the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense ( THAAD ) system and the Ground Based Interceptor currently deployed as part of the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense ( GMD ) system.

The UAE was the first country to acquire THAAD ( Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System ) A contract worth 1. 96 $ billion was agreed for Lockheed Martin Corp to supply two Thaad anti-missile batteries.

Efforts to develop Space Based Interceptors were considered in support of theater missile defense on the Theater High Altitude Air Defense ( THAAD ) program.

Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense ( THAAD ) is a program of the US Army, utilizing ground-based interceptor missiles which can intercept missiles in the upper part of the atmosphere.

U. S. official also stated that the U. S. military's Central Command, which is overseeing the buildup to counter Iran, also wants to deploy the Army's first Terminal High Altitude Area Defense missile-interceptor system, known as a THAAD, to the region in the coming months.

* – Iwo Jima-class – As of September 10, 2011 towed hulk still on loan to US Army for launching targets for THAAD Missiles at Pacific Missile Range Facility.

The two Missile Defense Agency programs that currently utilize the range at PMRF are the Navy's Aegis Ballistic Missile Defense System and the Army's Terminal High Altitude Area Defense System, or THAAD.

Terminal High Altitude Area Defense ( THAAD ), formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is a United States Army system to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach.

The THAAD system is being designed, built, and integrated by Lockheed Martin Space Systems acting as prime contractor.

The Brahmaputra has its headwaters in the tableland of the world, the towering white headwalls of the Himalayas that are unknown to man as any other space on the planet.

Southern resentment has been over the method of its ending, the invasion, and Reconstruction ; ;

The North should thank its stars that such has been the case ; ;

As it is, they consider that the North is now reaping the fruits of excess egalitarianism, that in spite of its high standard of living the `` American way '' has been proved inferior to the English and Scandinavian ways, although they disapprove of the socialistic features of the latter.

For lawyers, reflecting perhaps their parochial preferences, there has been a special fascination since then in the role played by the Supreme Court in that transformation -- the manner in which its decisions altered in `` the switch in time that saved nine '', President Roosevelt's ill-starred but in effect victorious `` Court-packing plan '', the imprimatur of judicial approval that was finally placed upon social legislation.

While sovereignty has roots in antiquity, in its present usage it is essentially modern.

Thus we are compelled to face the urbanization of the South -- an urbanization which, despite its dramatic and overwhelming effects upon the Southern culture, has been utterly ignored by the bulk of Southern writers.

But the South is, and has been for the past century, engaged in a wide-sweeping urbanization which, oddly enough, is not reflected in its literature.

In a mere half-century the South has more than tripled its urban status.

Thus Faulkner reminds us, and wisely, that the `` new '' South has gradually evolved out of the Old South, and consequently its agrarian roots persist.

As capitalism in the 20th century has become increasingly dependent upon force and violence for its survival, the private detective is placed in a serious dilemma.

But while the corporation has all the disadvantages of the socialist form of organization ( so cumbersome it cannot constructively do much of anything not compatible with its need to perpetuate itself and maintain its status quo ), unluckily it does not have the desirable aspect of socialism, the motivation to operate for the benefit of society as a whole.

Neither the vibrant enthusiasm which bespeaks a people's intuitive sense of the fitness of things at climactic moments nor the vital argumentation betraying its sense that something significant has transpired was in evidence.

It has lost its ground of being and floats in a mist of appearances.

Precisely at the moment when it has lost its vision the mind of the community turns out from itself in a search for the ontological standard whereby it can measure itself.

Moreover its posture of stubborn but simple resistance is doomed to failure because of the metaphysical weakness of the existent form of order, once the activation of change has reached visible proportions.

But a writer who has a taste for irony and who sees incest in all its modern dimensions can let his imagination work on the disturbing joke in the incest myth, the joke that strikes right at the center of man's humanness.

This life has its own currents and rhythms, its own multiple cycles and adaptations.

In his effort to stir the public from its lethargy, Steele goes so far as to list Catholic atrocities of the sort to be expected in the event of a Stuart Restoration, and, with rousing rhetoric, he asserts that the only preservation from these `` Terrours '' is to be found in the laws he has so tediously cited.

One of the most salient features of literary value has been deemed to be its influence upon and organization of emotion.

Again, he may discover embodied within its texture a theme or idea that has been presented elsewhere and at other times in various ways.

Certainly one of the most important comments that can be made upon the spiritual and cultural life of any period of Western civilization during the past sixteen or seventeen centuries has to do with the way in which its leaders have read and interpreted the Bible.

Ramillies And The Union With Scotland has fewer high spots than Blenheim and much less of its dramatic unity.