11 March 2024
by Daniel Wasserbly
A THAAD interceptor is launched from the Reagan Test Site, Kwajalein Atoll in the Republic of the Marshall Islands, during Flight Test THAAD-23, August 30, 2019 (The Pentagon’s FY 2025 budget request includes USD247 million for 12 THAAD interceptors.)
The US Missile Defense Agency (MDA) has requested USD639.9
million for the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) programme in fiscal year (FY) 2025.
This funding would procure 12 THAAD interceptors for USD247 million, according to Pentagon budget documents published on 11 March.
A battery typically consists of six truck-mounted launchers, 48 Interceptors (eight per launcher), one army/navy Transportable Radar Surveillance and Control Mode 2 (AN/TPY-2) radar, a Tactical Fire Control/Communications component, and Heavy Expanded Mobility Tactical Trucks (HEMTTs), MDA said.
The FY 2024 THAAD request, which had not been appropriated as publication, included USD267.9 million for research, development, test, and evaluation, as well as USD216.8 million to procure 11 THAAD interceptors (which was up from USD75 million to procure three interceptors in FY 2023).
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