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 THAAD THEATRE HIGH ALTITUDE AREA DEFENSE MISSILE SYSTEM, USA The THAAD (Theatre High Altitude Area Defense) missile system is an easily transportable defensive weapon system to protect against hostile incoming threats such as tactical and theatre ballistic missiles at ranges of 200km and at altitudes up to 150km. The THAAD system provides the upper tier of a "layered defensive shield" to protect high value strategic or tactical sites such as airfields or populations centers. The THAAD missile intercepts exo-atmospheric and endo-atmospheric threats. The sites would also be protected with lower and medium tier defensive shield systems such as the Patriot PAC-3 which intercepts hostile incoming missiles at 20 to 100 times lower altitudes. THAAD PROGRAM The US Army is expected to acquire 80 to 99 THAAD launchers, 18 ground based radars and a total of 1,422 THAAD missiles. Two THAAD battalions are planned, each with four batteries. In 1992 Lockheed Martin Missiles and Space and other industrial team partners were awarded a $689 million contract to develop the THAAD system. Raytheon was selected as sub-contractor to develop the ground based radar. Raytheon is responsible for the solid-state receiver/transmitter modules. TRW is responsible for software development. The other main contractors are Raytheon for the traveling wave tubes, Datatape for the data recorders and EBCO for radar turrets. The THAAD program entered the engineering and manufacturing development (EMD) phase in 2000. In May 2004, production of 16 flight test missiles began at Lockheed Martin's new production facilities in Pike County, Alabama. Flight testing of the EMD system is scheduled to begin in 2005 and continue until 2009. The system is expected to enter low-rate production, to support initial operating capability (IOC) in 2007. THAAD BATTERY The THAAD battery will typically operate nine launch vehicles each carrying eight missiles, with two mobile tactical operations centers (TOCs) and a ground-based radar (GBR). THAAD MISSILE INFORMATION The target object data and the predicted intercept point are downloaded to the missile prior to launch. The updated target and intercept data are also transmitted to the missile in flight. The missile is 6.17m in length and is equipped with a single stage solid fuel rocket motor with thrust vectoring. The rocket motor is supplied by Chemical Systems Division of Pratt & Whitney. The launch weight is 900kg. A separation motor is installed at the interstage at the forward end of the booster section. The separation motor assists in the separation of the kinetic kill vehicle (KKV) and the spent boost motor. The shroud separates from the KV before impact. The KV is equipped with a liquid-fuelled Divert and Attitude Control System, DACS, developed by Boeing, formerly the Rocketdyne division of Rockwell International, for the terminal maneuvering towards the target intercept point. A gimbal-mounted infrared seeker module in the nose section provides terminal homing to close in on the target missile in the terminal phase of approach. During the initial fly-out phase of flight, the seeker window is covered with a two-piece clamshell protection shroud. Metal bladders installed in the shroud are inflated to eject the protective shroud before the seeker initiates target acquisition. The infrared seeker head, developed by BAe Systems, is an indium antimonide (InSb) staring focal plane array operating in the mid infrared 3 to 5 micron wavelength band. M1075 TRUCK MOUNTED LAUNCHER There are nine M1075 truck mounted launchers in a typical THAAD battery. Launch vehicle is a modified Oshkosh Truck Corporation Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Truck with Load Handling System (HEMTT-LHS). The 12m long by 3.25m wide launch vehicle carries ten missile launch containers. While on the launcher, lead acid batteries provide the primary power. The batteries are recharged with a low noise generator. After firing, reloading the launch vehicle takes 30 minutes. GROUND BASED RADAR The cueing for the THAAD system is provided by the Raytheon Systems Ground Based Radar (GBR) for surveillance, threat classification and threat identification. THAAD can also be cued by military surveillance satellites such as Brilliant Eyes. The ground based radar units are C-130 air transportable. The radar uses a 9.2m² aperture full field of view antenna phased array operating at I and J bands (X-band) and containing 25,344 solid state microwave transmit and receive modules. The radar has the capability to acquire missile threats at ranges up to 1,000km. The first production radar is being tested at the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico. In September 2004, the THAAD radar tracked a tactical ballistic missile, cueing a successful intercept by a Patriot PAC-3 missile. TACTICAL OPERATIONS CENTER Each THAAD battery has two tactical operations centers (TOC). The TOC has been developed by Northrop Grumman, formerly Litton Data Systems Division. The TOC accommodates two operator stations and is equipped with three Hewlett-Packard HP-735 data processors. MOBILE BMC3I UNITS The THAAD system is able to "hand over" targets to other defense systems and can cue the targets to other weapons. THAAD is able to interface to other US or allied air defense data information networks and to the battle management and command control and communications center. Northrop Grumman has been contracted to develop the THAAD BMC3I. The Battle Management and Command, Control, Computers and Intelligence (BMC3I) units are installed in hardened shelters mounted on High Mobility Multi-Wheeled Vehicles (HMMWVs). The THAAD communications system can use JTIDS, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, SINCGARS and the Joint Tactical Terminal for voice and data communications and for intelligence data transfer. |
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The THAAD weapon system consists of Launchers, Missiles, Battle Management/Command, Control, Communications and Intelligence (BMC3I) units and THAAD radars. |
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THAAD is designed to protect against incoming threats such as tactical and theatre ballistic missiles at ranges of 200km. |
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The THAAD missile uses kinetic energy, hit-to-kill technology. |
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The THAAD system provides the upper tier of a layered defensive shield. The PAC-3 missile provides the lower tier. |
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The THAAD missile seeker provides stabilized infrared imagery of the targeted warhead. The seeker allows terminal homing and aim point selection. |
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THAAD is designed to intercept incoming missiles at higher altitudes and greater distances than existing systems. |
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Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) of the THAAD missile system, up to 40 missiles a year, is currently planned to occur around 2007. |
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Holy Smokes, those are some kaboombers!!
On This Day In History
Birthdates which occurred on May 15:
1565 Henrick de Keyser architect/master builder of Amsterdam
1802 Isaac Ridgeway Trimble Major General (Confederate Army), died in 1888
1810 Jacob Thompson (Confederacy), died in 1885
1819 Thomas Leonidas Crittenden Major General (Union volunteers)
1830 Laurence Simmons Baker Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1907
1845 Ilja [Elias] Metsjnikov USSR, zoologist/bacteriologist (Nobel 1908)
1856 Lyman Frank Baum Chittenango NY, children's book author (Wizard of Oz)
1860 Ellen Louise Axson Wilson 1st wife of Woodrow Wilson
1880 Otto Dibelius German theologist/bishop (Confessional Church)
1889 Bessie Hillman founder (Almalgamated Clothing Workers of America)
1890 Katherine Anne Porter US, novelist (Ship of Fools)
1891 Chief Nipo T Strongheart Yakima WA, US Indian actor (Pony Soldier)
1894 Jean Renoir French director (La Béte Humane) [or Sept 15]
1895 Charles Lamont San Fransisco CA, director (Abbott & Costello Go to Mars)
1902 Richard J Daley (Mayor-D-Chicago)
1905 Joseph Cotten Petersburg VA, actor (3rd Man, Airport 77, Hearse)
1909 James Mason England, actor (Lolita, Bloodline, Boys From Brazil)
1910 Robert F Wagner (Mayor-D-NYC, 1949-65)
1918 Eddy Arnold Henderson TN, country singer (Cattle Call, Anytime)
1921 Erroll Garner Pittsburgh PA, jazz pianist (Misty)
1922 Enrico Berlinguer Italian communist/secretary-general (CPI)
1923 Richard Avedon US, photographer (1957 ASMP award)
1930 Jasper Johns Augusta GA, painter/sculptor (Green Target)
1936 Anna Maria Alberghetti Italy, actress/singer (Cinderfella)
1936 Donald [Anthony] Moffitt US, sci-fi author (Jupiter Theft)
1937 Trini Lopez Trinidad, singer/guitarist (If I Had a Hammer)
1947 Graham Goble Adelaide Australia, rock guitarist (Little River Band)
1949 Frank L Culbertson Jr Charleston SC, Commander USN/astronaut (STS-38)
1953 George Brett Wheeling WV, Kansas City Royal 3rd baseman (1980 American League MVP)
1953 Mike Oldfield England, composer (Tubular Bells)
1955 Lee Horsley Muleshoe TX, actor (Nero Wolfe, Matt Houston)
1967 John Smoltz Detroit MI, pitcher (Atlanta Braves, 1996 Cy Young)
1969 Emmitt Smith running back (Dallas Cowboys, 3-time NFL rushing leader)
1973 Victoria Davey Spelling Los Angeles CA, actress (Donna-Beverly Hills 90210)
Good morning, Snippy and everyone at the Foxhole.
Morning EGC!!
HUGS
Good morning, Aeronaut.
Wow, now that's what I call, "your tax dollars at work".
Today is also Pentecost Sunday . . . the day that the prophet Joel spoke that God would pour out his Holy Spirit on all flesh and give birth to the new church (the body of Christ) wherein man could be born again of Holy Spirit.
Now when the Day of Pentecost had fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven, as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled the whole house where they were sitting. Then there appeared to them divided tongues, as of fire, and one sat upon each of them. And they were all filled with the Holy Spirit and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.
Hallelujah!
When Saul of Tarsus was converted on the road to Damascus, he asked two questions. The first was, "Who are You, Lord?" Realizing he was in the presence of the living God, only one other question mattered: "Lord, what do You want me to do?" (Acts 9:5-6). He recognized that obedience to God's will for him was to be the central focus of the rest of his life. Requests for health, healing, success, and even spiritual power are not wrong, but they can become selfish prayers if they do not flow from a heart determined to obey God. Jesus said, "He who has My commandments and keeps them, it is he who loves Me. And he who loves Me will be loved by My Father" (John 14:21). Obedience expresses our love for God and enables us to experience His love for us. Have you made that noble request: "Lord, what do You want me to do?" -Herb Vander Lugt
When Thy voice is truly heard, With obedience glad and steady, Still to follow every word. -Havergal The best way to know God's will is to say "I will" to God.
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Those are some pretty impressive pictures. :-)
Morning.
Great minds....
Hi Ms Feather.
Good afternoon, I'm tired, but have survived 4 days now.
Good afternoon feather.
That's one cool cat!
Good afternoon sweetie.
Hey!
It'll will get easier.
Thanks PE.
"THUDD". LOL. Oh my.
*sneak sneak sneak*
Aiieee!
You spotted me!
Had to be when I opened the fridge.
Gets me every time..
Hi miss Feather
Launching of Mercury-Atlas 9.
Official portrait of L. Gordon Cooper Jr. in full pressure suit and helmet.
Ginger or Maryann?
Birds of prey.
Hiya Sam
Howdy ma'am
I was a Maryann guy myself. But this is a question that honorable people can disagree on...even though Ginger people are commies.
I don't know if folks here was this...stand by to get REALLY pissed off!
Newsweek says erred in Koran desecration report
Yahoo! News ^ | 05/15/05 | Reuters
Posted on 05/15/2005 3:31:35 PM CDT by F15Eagle
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1403680/posts
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Newsweek magazine on Sunday said it erred in a May 9 report that said U.S. interrogators desecrated the Koran at Guantanamo Bay, and apologized to the victims of deadly Muslim protests sparked by the article.
"We regret that we got any part of our story wrong, and extend our sympathies to victims of the violence and to the U.S. soldiers caught in its midst," Editor Mark Whitaker wrote in the magazine's latest issue, due to appear on U.S. newsstands on Monday.
Whitaker said the magazine inaccurately reported that U.S. military investigators had confirmed that personnel at the detention facility in Cuba had flushed the Koran down the toilet.
The report sparked angry and violent protests across the Muslim world from Afghanistan, where 16 were killed and more than 100 injured, to Pakistan to Indonesia to Gaza. In the past week it was condemned in Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Bangladesh, Malaysia and by the Arab League. On Sunday, Afghan Muslim clerics threatened to call for a holy war against the United States.
The weekly news magazine said in its May 23 edition that the information had come from a "knowledgeable government source" who told Newsweek that a military report on abuse at Guantanamo Bay said interrogators flushed at least one copy of the Koran down a toilet in a bid to make detainees talk.
But Newsweek said the source later told the magazine he could not be certain he had seen an account of the Koran incident in the military report and that it might have been in other investigative documents or drafts.
The acknowledgment by the magazine came amid a continuing heightened scrutiny of the U.S. media, which has seen a rash of news organizations fire reporters and admit that stories were fabricated or plagiarized.
The Pentagon told the magazine the report was wrong last Friday, saying it had investigated earlier allegations of Koran desecration from detainees and found them "not credible."
The May 9 report, which appeared as a brief item by Michael Isikoff and John Barry in the magazine's "Periscope" section, had a huge international impact, sparking the protests from Muslims who consider the Koran the literal word of God and treat each book with deep reverence.
Desecration of the Koran is punishable by death in Afghanistan and Pakistan.
U.S. officials opened an investigation but maintained that members of the Guantanamo security force were sensitive to the religious beliefs and practices of the detainees in U.S. custody.
U.S. national security adviser Stephen Hadley earlier on Sunday stressed the report had not been confirmed. "First of all, we don't know that it's true," Hadley said on CNN's "Late Edition."
"We've heard these reports before -- if it turns out to be true, obviously we will take action against those responsible," he said.
In January, British prisoners released from Guantanamo said guards threw their Korans into toilets and tried to force them to give up their faith. Human rights lawyer Tom Wilner, who represents several Kuwaiti prisoners at Guantanamo, said in February that his clients told him their Korans were thrown on the floor, stepped on and thrown into toilets at Guantanamo.
Newsweek's Whitaker said that when the magazine first heard of the Koran allegation from its source, staff approached two Defense Department officials. One declined to comment, while the other challenged a different aspect of the May 9 story but did not dispute the Koran charge.
The magazine said other news organizations had already aired charges of Koran desecration based "only on the testimony of detainees."
"We believed our story was newsworthy because a U.S. official said government investigators turned up this evidence. So we published the item," Whitaker said.
"Our original source later said he couldn't be certain about reading of the alleged Koran incident in the report we cited," he wrote.
We saw this, these SOB's. They should go the way of Dan Rather!
LOL. That was it!
I'm sleepy too. It was a very slow day today, makes the days go longer. Dreary and windy out so very few customers. I'm a lot better when the sun is out!
LOL. Maryann is definite SpankenTruppen material.
Sure, they look cute now..
LOL
I am NOT a happy camper tonight over this.
Well a late Sunday bump for the Freeper Foxhole. Mrs alfa6 and I made a day trip to St. Louis to check on my Dad. He has a bad disk/vertebrae and it is causing him lots of problems with his legs. He goes in for some epidural shots later this week, hopefully that will help relieve the pains.
Off to bed as I get to work some O/T tomorrow, have some substations to clean. Yippee, I think :-)
Regards
alfa6 ;>}
Ooooo, a Gloster Meteor.
I had back trouble a couple of years ago, I wouldn't wish it on my worst enemy.
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As a seminary student I was often impressed by stories of Christians who made a great impact for God. So I asked the Lord to give me the same spiritual insight and power they had. On the surface that looks like a noble request. But one day I realized that it was actually a self-centered prayer. So instead of asking God to make me like someone else, I began asking Him to show me what He wanted me to do.