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The Air Defense Artillery Branch is the air defense branch of the United States Army, specializing in the use of anti-aircraft weapons to conduct anti-aircraft warfare operations. In the U.S. Army, th
A soldier assigned to the 35th Air Defense Artillery Brigade's 1st Battalion, 43rd Air Defense Artillery Regiment conducting maintenance on a Patriot missile launcher in 2006
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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense, formerly Theater High Altitude Area Defense, is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system, deployed since 2008, designed to intercept and destroy short-, m
Air Defense Artillery Branch
…conduct anti-aircraft warfare operations. In the U.S. Army, these groups are composed of mainly air defense systems such as the Patriot Missile System, Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD), and the Avenger Air Defense System which fires the FIM-92 Stinger missile. The Air Defense Artillery branch descended from Anti-Aircraft…
A Terminal High Altitude Area Defense interceptor being fired during an exercise in 2013
A US Army THAAD transported by a Boeing C-17 Globemaster III
The AN/TPY-2 radar
THAAD's threat interception process