DefenceTalkLockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) recently delivered the 700th Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) interceptor to the Missile Defense Agency (MDA). This production milestone comes at a time when global demand for integrated air and missile defense systems continues to grow. “The Missile Defense Agency, industry and the Lockheed Martin team who engineer and produce […]https://www.defencetalk.com/lockheed-martin-delivers-700th-thaad-interceptor-79507/

DefenceTalkSaudi Arabia announced a deal Monday with US firm Lockheed Martin to manufacture elements of the missile defences of the Gulf state, the target of frequent cross-border attacks by rebels in Yemen. Its military industries authority, cited by state news agency SPA, approved two projects to produce launchers and other equipment used in the THAAD […]https://www.defencetalk.com/saudi-arabia-lockheed-martin-in-missile-defense-deal-78326/

DefenceTalkInstalling a controversial US missile defence system in South Korea was never going to be easy but, caught between Beijing’s opposition and American insistence, the country’s new president has a strategy: delay. Seoul suspended deployment of the Terminal High-Altitude Area Defence (Thaad) system this week following a furious campaign of economic sanctions and diplomatic protests […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-china-trap-seoul-between-a-rock-and-a-thaad-place-70149/

DefenceTalkAmid the Trump administration’s conflicting signals on whether or not it will ask South Korea to pay more for a controversial American missile defense system, experts suggest restraint and caution to avoid eroding the Washington-Seoul alliance, a change that could impede efforts to counter nuclear-armed North Korea. Earlier this week, the U.S. military said the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/thaad-cost-debate-could-erode-us-south-korea-alliance-69909/

DefenceTalkThe US controversial missile defense system, known as THAAD, has become operational in South Korea, despite China’s criticism. The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) “has reached initial intercept capability,” a US official told AFP on condition of anonymity on Monday. In July last year, Washington and Seoul agreed to the battery deployment in the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/thaad-missile-defense-system-now-operational-in-south-korea-69871/

DefenceTalkUS President Donald Trump on Friday said he wants South Korea to pay $1 billion for a missile shield being deployed here, and called for a renegotiation of a bilateral free trade pact. Amid intense debate at home and diplomatic friction with China, key components of the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system were brought […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-korea-should-pay-1b-for-thaad-trump-69856/

DefenceTalkUS troops began delivering a missile defence system that has infuriated China to a deployment site in South Korea Wednesday, amid heightened tensions over the North’s nuclear ambitions. Washington is urging Beijing — Pyongyang’s sole major ally — to do more to rein it in, but the Asian giant has reacted with fury to the […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-missile-defence-equipment-reaches-s-korea-site-69818/

DefenceTalkChina said Tuesday it would “resolutely” defend its security interests as the US began deploying the THAAD missile-defence system in South Korea that Beijing fears will undermine its own military capabilities. “We are firmly opposed to the deployment of THAAD in the Republic of Korea by the US and the ROK,” foreign ministry spokesman Geng […]https://www.defencetalk.com/china-vows-resolute-measures-after-thaad-deployment-69407/

DefenceTalkSouth Korean retail giant Lotte on Tuesday signed a deal to provide a golf course to host a controversial US missile defence system loathed by Beijing, Seoul’s defence ministry said. Food- and retail-focused Lotte Group, South Korea’s fifth-biggest company, has come under growing pressure from China, a crucial market, over the proposal. The plan by […]https://www.defencetalk.com/south-koreas-lotte-signs-land-deal-for-us-missile-system-69309/

DefenceTalkThe United States is certain it can defend itself from an attack by North Korea, the Defense Department said Tuesday after Pyongyang warned it was close to test launching a ballistic missile. “We remain confident in our ballistic missile defense and in our defense of our allies and our defense of the homeland,” Pentagon spokesman […]https://www.defencetalk.com/us-can-defend-itself-from-north-korea-missile-attack-pentagon-68749/