Kauai THAAD Missile Test Successful and a New Missile Defense Site Opens with a Bang!

Just in time for the launch of a new blog site by The Heritage Foundation for their new documentary on missile defense called 33 minutes

The U.S. Missile Defense Agency, working in concert with Lockheed Martin, successfully conducted a test of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) Weapon System in Hawaii last night. The intercept was the fifth successful test for THAAD system in five attempts.

KGMB9 News noted that this was first time the military needed to identify a mock warhead that separated from booster rockets. “Six minutes later,” the station reported, “an interceptor was launched from the Pacific Missile Range. It hit the mock warhead destroying it.” See the video at right.