Another successful test for National Missile Defense

THADD is the 2nd tier layer of National Missile Defense. In the test the system successfully intercepted another missile over the Pacific:

This fifth missile defense intercept since June of 2006 builds more and more confidence in our technical and operational capability to defeat ballistic missile attacks. The THAAD missile system is the next layer in our current deployed missile defense systems which are based world-wide that includes the ground-based GBI’s, Aegis Sea-Based SM-3 missiles and the ground based Patriot 3 systems. This demonstration of the THAAD system will question the investment that both Iran and North Korea are putting into offensive ballistic missiles.

The missile intercepted was a single-stage ballistic missile. It was destroyed through kinetic impact, meaning that it physically impacted the target.