Never seen the US shoot down any rocket. Israel and Russia put tons of money into this technology. We have thad, that has been tested where? Just asking...
You don’t remember the Patriot and the Scud during the Iraq war?
So you don't count the stuff done during GWI? I know those were different animals but missiles were indeed shot down were they not?
THAAD in its deployed version is highly accurate (15/15 or the like) and has been tested at various test sites.
Never used in actual launch against an enemy, would be a good use of a NK launch, as testing means we have to launch a target missile and the counter force missile, costs double.
THAAD in its deployed version is highly accurate (15/15 or the like) and has been tested at various test sites.
Never used in actual launch against an enemy, would be a good use of a NK launch, as testing means we have to launch a target missile and the counter force missile, costs double.
Problem is range.
At 40 miles UP, you need a special interceptor.
Also a factor is how many MACHs the missile to be intercepted is traveling. We recently have been testing missile interception over the Pacific. Several tests, though not all successful.
Some of this is based on stuff I read. I could be wrong...
The Missile Defense Agency has run quite a few intercept tests - most of them successful. They have used the big GBIs in Alaska and California, the THAAD interceptors (as recently as this July), SM-3, and SM-6 (just a few days ago).
Israel worked with us as a missile defense "end-run" around the ABM Treaty restrictions for years - a good portion of our current ballistic missile defense technology was R&D'd with Israeli partnership.
As for THAAD testing, much of that takes place at our missile test range near the Marshall Islands in the Pacific.
Shooting down an ICBM in the accent/lift off phase is difficult but not impossible.