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Terminal High Altitude Area Defense

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THAAD is an American anti-ballistic missile defense system designed to shoot down short, medium, and intermediate-range ballistic missiles in their terminal phase using a hit-to-kill approach. It was developed after the Gulf War in 1991 and has been deployed in the United Arab Emirates, Israel, Romania, and South Korea. The system was originally scheduled for deployment in 2012 but was first deployed in 2008, with its first operational interception occurring on January 17, 2022, in the UAE.learn more on wikipedia