The HQ-19 is capable of engaging hypersonic threats traveling within the Earth's atmosphere, a capability that China claims ...

The anti-ballistic missile system can intercept threats beyond the atmosphere and is seen as a more competent rival to the US ...

Major Korean companies fear possible retaliation from China following an agreement by Korea and the United States to deploy ...

Use precise geolocation data and actively scan device characteristics for identification. This is done to store and access ...

The alliance cannot hope to address the North Korea threat until it overcomes these three hurdles.

China has always calibrated its economic pressure to avoid a boomerang effect. The currency swap is more of the same.

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 ...

China argues that since the bilateral decision between Seoul and Washington to deploy a THAAD battery, North Korean missile tests have expanded and are poised to rise. Thomas Karako, director of ...

Adan Cazarez/Handout via REUTERS) US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin authorized the deployment of a Terminal High-Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) battery in Israel, along with American military ...

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Like THAAD interceptors, PAC-3 missiles do carry warheads and instead use "hit to kill" contact to obliterate targets. The following infographic from Lockheed Martin shows the Patriot system.