US Army terminal missile defense system is headed to Eastern Europe

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US Army terminal missile defense system is headed to Eastern Europe
By: Jen Judson  
 

WASHINGTON — So far only the Pacific region and, more recently, the Middle East have seen operational deployments of the U.S. Army’s Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, but now it’s headed to Romania this summer, according to an April 11 U.S. European Command statement.

Questions have swirled for years on when, where and if THAAD would deploy to Europe, particularly as the situation on the eastern flank has heated up since Russia annexed Crimea in 2014.

The THAAD system, according to the USEUCOM statement, will deploy this summer “in support of NATO Ballistic Missile Defense” — in other words, it’s filling in for the operational Aegis Ashore missile defense system while it undergoes a “limited period of scheduled maintenance and updates.”

https://www.defensenews.com/land/2019/04/11/us-army-terminal-missile-defense-system-is-headed-to-eastern-europe/